Figure 4: crowded street in Suzhou

Except for public bus service, six routes of special tour buses reaching to all of the traveling spots of Suzhou have been provided to travelers in recent years. Besides, tourists can rent bicycles and tri-bicycles to travel around the city, which is convenient and cheap. Taxi is another one of major and common means of transport here. Additionally, water transport is a local character of Suzhou for it sits beside the old canals. For railway transportation, Suzhou railway station is one of standard stations of China, from where trains can go to all other main cities of China. For airline service, travelers can go to the airports of Shanghai and Nanjing by bus or train to take flights there to everywhere in China and abroad.

3. Overview of the local economy
The development of Suzhou primarily depends on tourism. To accelerate the development, Suzhou have been developed as important industrial city in Changjiang triangle islet as well There are some well-known light industrial products, such as silk and embroidery. Also there are some new kinds of products, such as iron and steel, chemistry, machine and electron, etc.

4. Major issues
(1) Between the protection of heritage buildings and development of tourism. Some tourists do not have positive attitude towards these heritage sites. Investors do not put protection of heritage buildings on first place.

(2) Between development of industry and maintenance of culture in Suzhou. Local government spends much on industry development. Half land of Suzhou has been used for industry already. It is suspected that original culture of Suzhou will be lost.