What Wuxi was like 40 years ago

As a cradle of China's industrial resurgence in the early 1900s, and then part of the "South Jiangsu Model" featuring village and township industry at the end of the 1970s, Wuxi has been home to some of the nation's most advanced and developed manufacturing industries, including textiles, printing, dyeing and chemicals. [Photo/wxrb.com]