According to sources from Suzhou Industrial Park's working conference on education on September 8, SIP has invested 10.439 billion yuan in education and opened 42 new kindergartens and 12 new primary and secondary schools since 2011, and so far SIP has 223 educational institutions and 60,581 full-time primary and secondary school students. Next, SIP will optimize the locations of schools and build more new schools, and monitor the schoolwork burden of primary and secondary school students.

During the 12th Five-year Plan (2011-2015), SIP has been accelerating the construction of modern, balanced, distinctive and internationalized education, implementing the education information strategy, and going all out to establish data center, management center, resource center, future classroom, flipped classroom and micro course, with the aim of building modern education under the guidance of education information, optimizing education resource allocation, improving education quality, strengthening teaching staff construction and setting up a good profile in education. Within the five years, SIP has introduced 2,500 excellent teachers, recorded 100% enrollment rates in compulsory education, led other regions of Suzhou in terms of the entrance examination scores for secondary schools and colleges for several year in a row.

According to the plan, firstly, SIP will innovate and improve teaching quality monitoring system, scientific evaluation system and curriculum system, speed up the uplifting of teaching and R&D levels, and endeavor to explore new classroom teaching models featuring "alleviating students' burdens, improving quality, and increasing efficiency". Secondly, SIP will further reform evaluation system so as to set up a five-star evaluation system to measure the students' development in moral integrity, schoolwork, mind and body, interests and special skills, as well as their schoolwork burden. Thirdly, SIP will issue annual reports on school quality, monitor and announce the primary and secondary school students' schoolwork burden, etc. Fourthly, SIP will build schools for children of the overseas returnees, and Confucius classrooms or Sinology bases abroad, and make efforts to build Jinji Lake International Education Symposium into a regional education forum of international renown.