Huangqiao ancient town – located in Taixing city, Jiangsu province – staged a raft of fun activities for folks and tourists to celebrate the Lantern Festival.
The ancient ginkgo park in Taixing city boasts a great concentration of 200-year-old ginkgo trees in its core area, creating a particularly idyllic landscape.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently launched a list of 149 top-quality national rural tourism routes – with a choice spot in Taixing city included.
The emerging new Changzhou-Taixing Yangtze River Bridge – which on completion will link Jiangsu province's Changzhou and Taizhou cities in East China – recently made major progress in its construction.
As a traditional local folk dance in Taixing city – administered by Taizhou city in Jiangsu province – the Taixing flower-drum dance was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage protection item in 2009.
Intangible cultural heritage and local cultural works from Taixing city appeared to great effect at the 13th Jiangsu Book Fair on July 1 to 5 in Suzhou city, also in the province.
In recent years, Taixing has made great efforts to protect and restore the ecological environment of the Yangtze River, helping make nearby areas hot tourist spots.
