Huating is located to the north west of Shanghai, bordering Liuhe Town of Taicang County Jiangsu province.

Huating has rich soils and abundant fresh water supply from the river system.

These natural resources make Huating a rich land where everything grows, from staple food such as rice, wheat, oats to specialty plants and vegetables very local.

Huating has eleven administrative villages including Yuanjiaqiao (袁家桥, Xinyuan (新园), Lianyi (联一), Lianhua (联华), Liansan (联三), Beixin (北新), Huating (华亭), Jinlu (金吕), Taqiao (塔桥), Liangjun (连俊), Shuangtang (双塘) and Maoqiao (毛桥).

Huating has an industrial focus on modern agriculture and related tourism that are environmentally friendly, healthy and sustainable.

It has a multitude of activities including log cabin fishing, fruit picking, tea tasting, local food dining, kite flying, farm produce shopping and lodging that bring visitors from Shanghai and nearby locations for short outings or excursions.

Huating, among other towns in Jiading, produces very good quality garlic that is exported to many countries of the world.

Huating has a very big and famous cemetery for people from around Shanghai to lay to peace the cremains of their loved ones for a fee.

Huating used to make very famous straw knitted handcrafts such as braid or weed hat and bags.

Huating locals can make one kind of very delicious fish balls which are white and soft.

Huating people are also good at making pickled vegetables with sticky soybean source and almost anything including watermelon skin, cucumber and radish.

However, in recent years, this tradition ceased for many homes because of the variety of other more attractive food for the people.

This plant is similar to sugar cane, but has medical benefits in terms of comforting the stomach and facilitating digestion.