In 200 1 year, Wuxi municipal government made a major strategic decision of "playing around Taihu Lake, singing canal songs and building a landscape city".
At the beginning of 2002, on the basis of the original Jingui Road, it was expanded in an all-round way according to high-standard landscape roads and urban main roads.
It was completed in September 2002 and renamed Taihu Avenue.
The functional orientation of land use on both sides of Taihu Avenue is: the west of Li Xi Road is the urban tourism development area, the middle is the administrative and business office area, and the east of Guangnan Interchange is the science and technology research and development area. The planning structure is "one new (administrative center of Taihu Square area), two (residential areas between Li Xi Road and Hubin Road, Qingyang Road and Guangnan Interchange), three (tourism development area to the west of Li Xi Road, administrative business office area in the middle, science and technology research and development area to the east of Guangnan Interchange) and four (Taihu Lake waterfront along the west of Lihu Lake and waterfront along Guangnan Interchange).