Located in the delta hinterland of the Yangtze River to the southeast of center Wuxi, the district has an area of 219 square kilometres (85 sq mi) and a total population of 536,807.

[2] Xinwu is located in the suburb of Wuxi city in southeastern part of East China's Jiangsu province, between Shanghai and Nanjing.

[9][10] According to the latest updates on the official website of Wuxi New District (bizwnd.gov.cn), high-end equipment manufacturing industry is the economic engine of WND.

[12] In November 2009, the State Council approved Wuxi as a national innovation and demonstration area for wireless sensor network.

[13] Wuxi New District has formed a cloud computing industrial distribution, featuring hardware, platform and application.

WND is also one of the eight major integrated circuit design industrialization bases approved by the State Ministry of Science and Technology.

[18][19] WND is home to around 1,000 software and service outsourcing enterprises, including 25 world's top 500 enterprises, and 26 global service outsourcing top 100 companies, such as Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, IBM, NTT data, Fujitsu, Pactera, ChinaSoft International and Unissoft.

A number of logistics companies such as Mapletree, ProLogis, Kerry, SF, Deppon and Kintetsu have their offices in the district.

[citation needed] It boasts several cultural resources and famous attractions such as the Bodu River and Taibo Temple.

[citation needed] Bodu River and Taibo Temple, two cultural relics from the state of Wu, are located in the WND.

[25][26] The ninth day of the first month in the Chinese lunar calendar marks the traditional festival for Meicun people to pay tribute to Taibo, son of King Tai of the Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century to 256 BC).

Meicun hosts the Taibo Temple Fair from Feb 26 to March 5 every year to carry forward traditional culture.

It aims to provide an international education environment for children of foreign people living and working in China, as well as those from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Curriculums are based on the textbooks of Singapore, drawing on the advantages of British and American educational programs with enhanced Chinese courses.