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Sticking to the Scientific Outlook on Development and centering on the tasks of being a pioneer, transformation, innovation, and livelihood improvement, Suzhou Industrial Park had a fruitful concluding year of the 11th Five Year (2006-2010) by making overall plans, focusing on key projects, speeding up restructuring and upgrading, promoting second pioneering, and seeing that all fields have progressed steadily and rapidly. In 2010, SIP authority also consolidated Sino-Singapore cooperation, decided on the future plans, and obtained great achievements in transformation and upgrading.

Sino-Singapore Cooperation Further Consolidated

Among multiple Sino-Singapore cooperation projects in the country, the launching of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City and Guangzhou Knowledge City imposed big pressure on Suzhou Industrial Park. How to consolidate its leading position, how to innovate cooperation patterns, and how to get more attentions from the state leaders, these are the challenges facing the flagship project jointly launched by two countries. But still, SIP manages a good harvest in 2010.
SIP witnessed the two-decade friendly cooperation between China and Singapore To remark the 20th anniversary of establishing diplomatic.......[more]

SIP Sets Future Development Goals

Suzhou Industrial Park has a history of 16 years and is now at the crucial stage of initiating the second wave of economic boom based on transformation and upgrading. At this crucial juncture, the urgent issue is to realize a successful economic restructuring and transformation. According to the resolution adopted at the 12th Suzhou Industrial Park China-Singapore Joint Steering Council Meeting held in July 2010, the main tasks of SIP in the near future are to focus on innovation-based and service-oriented economy and to build the world-class development zone with new vision, new goals, and new forms as well as new industries, new city, and new talents. .......[more]

Guiding Leap Growth of Rising Industries with Nanotechnology

Looking back at the development of Suzhou Industrial Park in 2010, one will see clearly the strategic leading role of nanotech industry in the growth of other rising industries. The strategy of guiding and leading local industrial transformation and upgrading with nano-tech gets expected results
At the meeting on transformation and upgrading held on May 30, 2010, Secretary Ma Minglong of SIP Party Working Committee announced for the first time to the public SIP's strategic decision on making nano-tech as the focus of its .......[more]

SIP Grows into a Regional Financial Center

Suzhou Industrial Park decided on the strategy of building the area into the city's CBD by launching Service Sector Multiple Growth Project and Finance Doubling Project to gather financial institutions and to optimize industrial structure based on the important platform of the property economy. According to the Finance Doubling Project introduced this year, SIP authorities plan to increase the number of financial and quasi-financial institutions from 142 in 2009 to 300 by the end of 2012 and the contribution rate of finance to GDP from 2.4% to 5%.......[more]

Talents Lead the Growth of SIP Rising Sectors

Suzhou Industrial Park emphasizes talents and professionals in driving rapid and sustainable social and economic growth. Keenly aware of the importance of talents as the first productive force in the sustainable and fast economic and social progress, SIP has been going all out in pursuing the talent-supported development strategy. The total number of talents has increased steadily and the HR structure optimized continuously. In 2010, 13 more SIP talents were listed in 1,000 Talents Project of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. Apart from SIP Leading Technological Talents, SIP introduced Jinji Lake Double Hundred Talents Program........[more]