The Lake Shanghu Tourist Resort
　　With a planning area of 25 square kilometers, the Lake Shanghu Tourist Resort is to recreate a Picturesque Yangtze-Delta artistic atmosphere with villages covered in the cloudy mist. Integrated with the High-brow Wu culture, Jiangshang culture, Peony culture and Wetland culture, a harmonious biology resource advantage of the area is gradually forming a lakeside holiday resort spot with reeds and swan geese set in the rosy clouds, the “sunset shadowing the west city” sight with mountains and waters in the suburban, the “Mist-covered Lake” Hudian grass cluster sight, the “Eco-source” Wetland Reserve and the “Maple Woods Vale” piedmont culture zone. Tourists feels nothing particular at the very beginning, but upon getting inside through undisturbed twisting path, they will immediately be amazed by views appear in front of them, and they would be wondering whether they have crashed into the Xanadu described in Chinese literature.

Shanghu Lake Scenic Spot
　　Located in the west of the Changshu city and south of the Yushan mountain, Lake Shanghu was named after Jiangziya, who fished here when he tried to find Zhongyong and avoid the dictatorship of the Emperor Zhou. Covering an area of 800 hectare, Lake Shanghu ranks the national key scenic spots, national AAAA tourism area and one of the ten wetland parks of China. With a high quality of the second national class of drinking water, Lake Shanghu is honored as “the best water of Suzhou”. Decorated with seven islands of the Lotus Island, the Gourd Island (a cultural park of mountains and waters), the Fishing Islet and the Peach Blossom Island, Lake Shanghu presents a spectacular sight with the lake surrounding the islands and the islands embracing waters. Stretching 1.5 kilometers, the water-kissing Long Bank goes across the Lake Shanghu. Established by Qian Qianyi, the literature leader of the southeast of China during the transaction of Ming and Qing dynasty, the long bank brought about a romantic story for Qian’s concubine the famous beauty Liu Rushi particularly drew an landscape painting “willows covered in the mists and moonlight”. The bird’s eye look of the Lake Shanghu Lake is like an extraordinary art masterpiece with the Yu Mountain standing by its side. Tourists will be able to enjoy a leisured lifestyle with clear water, clean air and well-preserved biological conditions in Lake Shanghu escaping from the busy city.