Kunshan is a satellite city in the greater Suzhou region that is administratively at the county-level in southeast Jiangsu, China, just outside Shanghai. It currently ranks as the most economically successful county-level administration in China. In 2008 the GDP totalled 150 billion yuan (US$22 billion), an increase of 15% from 2007. The GDP per capita reached 120,882 yuan (US$17,687).

Kunshan is culturally significant as the origin of Kunshan diao, the melody which ultimately evolved into Kunqu, China's oldest[citation needed] extant theatre art. Kunshan is the birthplace of one of China's most well known ancient opera styles.It is known as the birthplace of Fei Junlong, Gong Xian, An Wang, and Soong Ching-ling.[citation needed]As of 2006 the city is locally known as "Little Taipei" due to the influx of businessmen from the Republic of China.It is also home to a Shimano factory and the iPod Touch factory, a division of Apple All new iPod Touches will be delivered from there. Also, factory of Avery Dennison specialty tapes, engineered films, pressure-sensitive, and other converted products. Also, Toshiba, Dell, Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard deliver their laptop series from a Compal factory in Kunshan.