Forum guests tour Wuxi IoT town

Chinese and Russian guests look at a smart bicycle at the Hongshan IoT town in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, on Nov 16, 2019. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

A group of guests from China and Russia participating in the third China-Russia Internet Media Forum visited the Hongshan Internet of Things town in Wuxi, Jiangsu province on Saturday.

As a national sensor network demonstration zone, Wuxi has more than 2,000 IoT-related companies and over 150,000 people working in the industry in 2017. Sales from these companies surpassed 263 billion yuan ($37.4 billion) in 2018, according to public data.

Currently, the city has full coverage of the NB-IoT (NarrowBand internet of things) network, and the Hongshan IoT town has built a commercially viable NB-IoT network.

Moreover, some intelligent projects including agriculture, healthcare, entertainment and tourism have been set up in the town.

Guests from China and Russia try coffee made by a robot at the Hongshan IoT town in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, on Nov 16, 2019. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

Chinese and Russian guests visit the intelligent achievements exhibition hall at the Hongshan IoT town in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, on Nov 16, 2019. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/China Daily]