Baihu is home to more than 80 percent of Wuxi’s research institutes, with 22 scientific research institutes above the municipal level, 17 of them at the provincial level or affiliated with ministries, for example, the China Shipbuilding Industry Corp’s Ship Scientific Research Center, FAW Group’ Wuxi Fuel Injection Equipment Research Institute, the Jiangnan Computing and Technology Research Institute, and Jiangsu province’s Parasitic Diseases Institute.

It also has six military units and five municipal research institutes, including the Wuxi Cancer Research Center, and the Tea Research Institute, which gives an idea of just how abundant its research institute resources are.

There are also universities and colleges such as Jiangnan University, Wuxi Institute of Technology, Taihu University of Wuxi, Peking University’s School of Software and Microelectronics at Wuxi, Fudan University’s Wuxi Institute, Tsinghua University’s Applied Technology Research Institute at Wuxi, providing a favorable environment for scientific and cultural development and intellectual resources.