Basketball was invented by American james naismith in 189 1 year. At that time, he taught at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Because the local area is rich in peaches, the children here like to play the game of throwing the ball into the peach basket very much. This inspired him to learn the characteristics of ball games such as football and hockey and create basketball games.

In 20021year, Taicang achieved a regional GDP of1574.05 billion yuan, an increase of 9.7% compared with 2020 at comparable prices. Among them, the added value of primary industry is 2.398 billion yuan, the added value of secondary industry is 78.238 billion yuan, the added value of tertiary industry is 76.769 billion yuan, and the proportion of tertiary industry is 1.5:49.7:48.8. According to the resident population, the per capita GDP is 6.5438+0.854 million yuan.

Taicang City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, managed by Suzhou City, and located on the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, with latitude 3 1.20 minutes north, longitude 3 1.45 minutes east and longitude 12 1.20 minutes east. It faces Chongming Island across the river in the east and borders Jiading District, Baoshan District, Nanning City and Changshu City, North Street of Kunshan City in the west, with a total area of 809. 104 square kilometers.