Since the start of its development in 1994, SIPs major economic indicators are in rapid growth at the average annual rate of about 30%, and SIP has formed hi-tech industrial clusters in electronics, precision machinery, bio-pharmaceutical, new materials and aeronautical components. And with the rapid industrial development, the gross of SIP talents resources is increasing year by year.
      To attract talents, in the late 90s of last century, when HR websites came to the scene, SIP set up the HR Company and put forth the online job hunting & recruitment platform. In 10 years, www.o-hr.cn has publicized 800,000-odd job/times, recruited over 2.6 million person/times, and stored up over 1.1 million registered individual members and received over 1 million visits daily.
     Since 2002, SIP has held the recruitment tour in national key universities in over 10 cities every year, a total of about 100 recruitment fairs with over 5,000 job positions offered annually to graduates, and has absorbed over 30,000 graduates with honors.
In the meantime, SIP has built preferential-rent apartment buildings such as Jincheng and Jingying, with the most moderate prices (the rent is 30% discount of the market price) and quality dormitory environment, which creates a warm home for the youth that set out to work in SIP. In addition, SIPs provident fund, the unique regional social security system adapted from Singapores central provident fund, is another magic tool for SIP to attract talents. By September, the number of members of SIP Provident Fund had exceeded 600,000.

      As cultivating talents is one of the most effective means to give intellectual support for economic development, in recent years, SIP has conducted a series of training of urgently-needed talents and talents with high professional qualifications, a form of government-funded talent-cultivation for enterprises that has greatly promoted industrial development. Now, with the effective implementation of the training of talents with high professional qualifications, a new talent-training working system covering intermediate and high-end operation & management talents, sci-tech innovative talents, and talents with practical skills has been taking shape, while relevant mechanisms based on the system are being improved day by day.
     Meanwhile, by advancing in big strides in building Sci-Edu Innovation Park and actively introducing well-known universities and R&D institutions, SIP has fostered the clustering of a batch of innovative resources. By the end of July, 2010, SIP Dushu Lake Sci-Edu Innovation Park has gathered 18,000 master and doctoral candidates, 3,800 higher education teachers (800 professors and 12 academicians included), 850 overseas students, over 200 members of national 863 and 973 expert teams and 8 from Recruitment Program of Global Experts, and the number of top-notch talents accounts for 40% of those in Suzhou, making the area a well-deserved reservoir of top talents of Suzhou.

      In recent years, SIP has been continuously enhancing the introduction of talents, especially the leading technological talents, in order to promote the clustering of high-end talents.
       Currently, SIP has gathered over 2,000 overseas-returned talents, over 250 enterprises set up by the overseas-returned students, and was recognized as National Innovation and Venture Base for Overseas High-level Talents. With the open environment for talents innovation and start-up endeavors and complete talent working system, SIP ranks high as HR highland in Suzhou and Jiangsu Province. By 2009, 35 talents of SIP were elected as Jiangsu Province High-level Innovative and Start-up Talents, accounting for about 45% of that of Suzhou Municipality and 10% of Jiangsu Province, 153 high-end talents (55% in Suzhou) won the financial aids for Suzhou urgently-needed talents. And currently, 11 talents of SIP are listed on the Talents of Recruitment Program of Global Experts.