Yixing (simplified Chinese: 宜兴; traditional Chinese: 宜興; pinyin: Yíxīng) is a county-level city administered under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta. The city is known for its traditional Yixing clay ware tea pots. It is a pene-exclave with Changzhou. The city spans an area of 1,996.6 square kilometres (770.9 sq mi), and has a registered hukou population of about 1,075,800 as of 2020.
Yixing is famous for stoneware, especially teapots, made from the local clay.
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Yixing is on the west side of Lake Tai and is almost at the centre of the triangle consisting of Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou.
Yixing City is at the southwest end of Jiangsu Province and the center of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Triangle. It is connected to the Taihu Lake in Suzhou to the east, Changxing County of Zhejiang Province to the southeast, and Anhui Province to the southwest. Guangde City borders Liyang City to the west, Jintan District of Changzhou to the northwest, and Wujin District of Changzhou to the north.
The terrain of Yixing City is high in the south and low in the north, with low mountains and hills in the southwest. The highest peak in the city is the top of the Yellow Tower, with an altitude of 611.5 meters. Yixing City has a subtropical monsoon climate, with high temperatures throughout the year, normal precipitation, and normal sunshine.
Yixing has a long history, with a history of more than 7,000 years of pottery making and more than 2,200 years of county founding. Our ancestors were hardworking and simple, leaving behind many cultural relics. The Xixi site in Xushe Town is a large-scale settlement during the Majiabang Culture period. It reflects the peaceful and natural life of our ancestors who worked at sunrise and rested at sunset six or seven thousand years ago. In 2002, it was listed as one of China's six major archaeological discoveries.
