Since its founding in 1994, every May has been important for people working in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) to summarize the past and plan for the future. The theme of the 16th anniversary celebrated in May 2010 is sustainability based on industrial transformation and technological upgrading.
        How to realize the transformation is a question facing all SIP companies. In May, many companies signed new contracts or inaugurated new facilities to celebrate the 16th anniversary of SIP. The implementation of these projects in rising sectors centering on R&D and innovations lays a solid foundation for the realization of transformation and upgrading and will become the new motive force for sustainable development in SIP.

On May 27, Focus Lighting Tech and Bright East starts, Ping An Insurance signs contract, Evergrowing Bank opens

On May 26, Lextar and General PV Energy start; collective opening, contract-signing, plate-unveiling ceremonies of new industries

On May 25, MOU signing ceremony on investment in Umicore Technology Development Center; Knowles (Suzhou) Design & Development Center opens

On May 23, Ori Building completed, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Administration Center breaks ground, Suzhou High School Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University starts up

On May 18, Synthes and GBS shared service center opens

 
 

Focus Lighting Tech Breaks the Ground at Loufeng Town in SIP

     Focus Lighting Tech Inc., a 750 million yuan project invested by Golden Valley Optoelectronics Co. Ltd., held a ground-breaking ceremony at Loufeng Town of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) on May 27. The Company will mainly be engaged in the design and industrialization of high-power semiconductor lighting (LED) wafers and chips. Focus Lighting has... [more]

Brief Introduction on Focus Lighting Tech

    Invested by Golden Valley Optoelectronics in April 8, 2010, the company specializes in developing and manufacturing high quality LED semiconductor chips, LD laser chips, as well as in semiconductor lighting and IC products.
     Registered capital: 250 million yuan
     Total investment: 750 million yuan
     Land area: about 149 mu
     Construction area: about 87000 square meters

Bright East Group Invests 2B in Fiber-optic Park in SIP

     Bright East Group held a ground-breaking ceremony on May 27 for its two-billion-yuan communication optical fiber project at Shengpu Town in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). Taking up a land area of 520 mu, the local facility of the Beijing-based Group will be dedicated to the development, production, and sales of plastic fiber-optic for communicat... [more]

Brief Introduction on Fiber-Optic Park

    The local facility of the Beijing-based Group will be dedicated to the development, production, and sales of plastic fiber-optic for communications and related projects. The Group management planned to build 100 production lines and 100 coating lines in three years and to make it the head office and R&D center in South China. The expected annual capacity of the project is 2400,000 km with the annual sales of 12 billion yuan.
     Total investment: about 2 billion yuan
     Land area: 520 mu

China Ping An Insurance HQ Moves to Jinji Lake-Rim CBD

     The head office of China Ping An Insurance officially moved into Building N2B of Times Square in Suzhou Industrial Park on May 27. The subsidiaries of the Group will move to the building according to the need of actual businesses and new branches of the Group in the city will also be based in the building. China Ping An Insurance is the first g... [more]

Brief Introduction on China Ping An Insurance (Suzhou) HQ

    China Ping An Insurance is the first group centering on the core business of insurance and providing comprehensive financial services including securities, trusteeships, and banking in the country. The local head office has a total floorage of 30,000 square meters and the investment has amounted to 360 million yuan.

Evergrowing Bank Opens Branch in SIP

     To celebrate the 16th anniversary of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), Evergrowing Bank opened its Suzhou branch at Xinghai Building west of Jinji Lake. With the approval of People's Bank of China in 2003, Evergrowing Bank introduced joint stock system and became a national joint-stock commercial bank. Headquartered in Yantai, Shandong Province, th... [more]

Brief Introduction on Evergrowing Bank

     With the approval of People's Bank of China in 2003, Evergrowing Bank introduced joint stock system and became a national joint-stock commercial bank. Headquartered in Yantai, Shandong Province, the Bank opened over 100 branches in the country.
Initiated in August 2009, with the approval of Jiangsu Banking Regulatory Bureau, Evergrowing Bank Suzhou Branch opened for trial operation in February 2010. Among nearly 80 employees of the branch, 80% are college graduates with at least bachelor degrees.

SIP Celebrates 16th Anniversary with Sustained Growth by Transformation

     China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) celebrated its 16th anniversary at SIPAC Building on May 26. As part of the celebrations, a group of projects held collectively the opening, agreement-signing, and plate-unveiling ceremonies. Eight hi-tech companies including Dinghan, CH Lighting, and Shenlong Aerospace Technology (SLA) opened for bus... [more]

The Collective Opening, Agreement-Signing, and Plate-Unveiling Ceremony of New Projects

    Eight hi-tech companies including Dinghan, CH Lighting, and Shenlong Aerospace Technology (SLA) opened for business. Several service providers including Taiwan Eslite Bookstore and Suning Appliance Logistic & Distribution Center signed contracts with SIP. And four local parks won the honorary titles of Jiangsu Province Innovation Park, Jiangsu Province SIP Energy-Saving & Environment-Protection Science Park, Jiangsu Province SIP Bio-Med Science Park, and Jiangsu Province SIP Converged Communications Technology Park at the collective plate-giving ceremony.

Lextar Breaks Ground for the Biggest LED Production Base in Mainland China

     As part of the serial activities celebrating the 16th anniversary of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), Taiwan-based Lextar Electronics of BenQ and AU Optronics Group held a ground-breaking ceremony for its LED project, which is the first flagship LED enterprise in SIP integrating the upper stream, middle stream, and downstream manufacturing. With a ... [more]

Brief Introduction on Lextar

    Invested by BenQ and AU Optronics Group, Lextar is the first flagship LED enterprise in SIP integrating the upper stream, middle and downstream manufacturing, which will become the biggest LED production base in mainland China.
     Total investment: 500 million USD
Land area: about 363 mu
     Products: LED backlight for LCD panel and LED lighting devices
     Production time: the first quarter of 2011

General Solar Power (Suzhou) Invested by CSP Breaks Ground in SIP

     General Solar Power (Suzhou), with a total investment of 300 million US dollars, broke ground on May 26 at Weiting Town of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). The Company will provide to domestic and foreign markets the cutting-edge and high-efficiency thin film solar cells and services and become the most competitive player in solar power sector. Chi... [more]

Brief Introduction on General Solar Power (Suzhou)

    The Company will provide to both domestic and foreign markets the cutting-edge and high-efficiency thin film solar cells and services and become the most competitive player in solar power sector. The projects include two production bases of thin film PV solar cells and production equipment, and also house three R&D centers, namely, the technological center, the agricultural test center, and the BIPV (building integrated PV) development center.
     Total investment: 300 million USD
     Address: north of 312 National Highway and west of Xinghua Street overpass

Umicore Automotive Catalysts (Suzhou) to Build Technology Development Center with 400M Yuan

     Umicore Automotive Catalysts (Suzhou) held on May 25 an MOU signing ceremony on investment in its Technology Development Center and Phase 3 facility expansion startup in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). Taking up one third of Chinese market share with auto catalyst products, the Company decided to expand local production capacity and to invest 400 million yuan in R&D facility so as to meet the rising demand. [more]

Brief Introduction on Umicore Automotive Catalysts (Suzhou)

    Umicore is a world leading suppliers of metal materials and leads in the production of precious metals, zinc, copper products, and high-performance materials. The Corporation launched Suzhou project at the end of 2003 and local facility started operation in August 2005. The sales of Umicore Automotive Catalysts (Suzhou) now exceed one billion yuan and all the products are for domestic sales. As a result, the company makes outstanding contributions to local taxation.
     Umicore has invested 100 million US dollars in Suzhou and plans to build an R&D center in the city so as to serve Chinese market better. The initial investment in Asia-Pacific Technical Center located within the current premises of the Company is 120 million yuan with 70 employees.

Knowles (Suzhou) Unveils Design & Development Center

     Knowles Electronics (Suzhou) held an opening ceremony on May 25 for its design & development center and the expansion of its silicon microphone factory. With the opening of an design & development center, the Company has transformed from a manufacturing entity to a more competitive market player with independent R&D strength. As the leading des... [more]

Brief Introduction on Knowles Electronics (Suzhou) R&D Center

    With the opening of an R&D center, the Company has transformed from a manufacturing entity to a more competitive market player with independent R&D capabilities.
     Total Investment: 120 million US dollars
R&D team: nearly 20 masters and senior engineers 
     Major Projects: the world's smallest high-output low-vibration receiver, the first continuous micro-optical zoom lens for mobile phones, and the first ear-type receiver for hearing aids.

Suzhou Ori Animation Opens the First Animation Museum in Jiangsu Province

     Suzhou Ori Animation held an opening ceremony on May 23 in SIP Creative Industry Park for Ori Building, the new office building of the local animation leader, and Odry Animation Experience Hall, the first interactive site in Jiangsu Province to offer cartoon experience. With a land area of 6,000, the construction area of 24,000 square meters, an... [more]

Brief introduction on Ori Building

    The building will house a multi-functional animation base for R&D, service platform, HR training, tourism, and cartoon derivatives development in 2-3 years.
     Land area: over 6000 square meters
     Construction area: 24,000 square meters
     Investment: 100 million RMB

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Breaks Ground for Phase 3 Constructions

     Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) held a ground-breaking ceremony for its Phase 3 facilities including Administration & Information Center and Business Management Building on May 23. The University also celebrated its fourth anniversary and the opening of Research Center. Located at Dushu Lake Innovation District of Science and Technol... [more]

Brief introduction on Administration & Information Center of XJTLU

    Composed of the administration center, training center, library and information center, and student activity center, this building is designed as the landmark of the university.
     Construction areas: about 60,000 square meters
     Total investment: 1,220 million RMB
     Design philosophy: taking the concept of Taihu rocks and distinctively demonstrating the beauty of Suzhou gardens, the building is aesthetic with concise and modern façade and lively inside decoration.

Xi'an Jiaotong University and SIP Sign Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement

     Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) and Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) signed an agreement on comprehensive cooperation at the plate-unveiling ceremony for Suzhou High School Affiliated to the XJTU on May 23. According to the package agreement, the two parties will connect the leading strength of research and talent production at the University with ... [more]

Brief Introduction on Suzhou High School Affiliated to XJTU

     Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) and Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) signed an agreement on comprehensive cooperation at the plate-unveiling ceremony for Suzhou High School Affiliated to the XJTU on May 23. According to the package agreement, the two parties will connect the leading strength of research and talent production at the University with the actual needs on professionals and innovation in SIP so as to explore and build a new system integrating production, learning, and research, to produce more high-end innovation talents for the city, and to make more contributions to local economic growth.

Global Medical Device Leader Synthes Builds Production Base in SIP

     On May 18, the opening ceremony of Synthes (Suzhou) Medical was held in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). The powerful production base of Synthes will enhance the upgrading of SIP cluster of over 180 biopharmaceutical enterprises, and contribute to the industrialization, scale expansion and further clustering of biopharmaceutical industry in SIP. S... [more]

Brief introduction on Synthes

    Synthes is a leading global medcial device company specializing in developing, producing and marketing instruments , implants and biomaterials for surgical fixation, correction and regeneration of the human skeleton and soft tissues.
     Registration time: February, 2009
     Investment: 15 million USD
     Production application: medical implants and instruments for correction and fixation