The Suzhou Industrial Park is the biggest cooperative project between the governments of China and Singapore. The Park is now composed of an IT park, an international technology park, a life science park, a national software park and a SME park.
Sitting beside Lake Jinji (Golden Rooster) in the eastern suburb of the Suzhou city, and eighty kilometers away from Shanghai, the Suzhou Industrial Park lies in the center of the Yangtze River Delta and the juncture of China‘s coastal economic open areas and the Yangtze River economic development belt.
The Park is favored by its subtropical monsoon oceanic climate with four distinct seasons. Its average temperature is 15.8 centigrade with the highest being 35 centigrade and the lowest -3 centigrade. The average annual rainfall is 1076.2 millimeters.
At present, there are 9 universities, 46 schools for adult further education and 63 independent research institutions. Its 310,000 professionals are joined every year by around 50,000 newcomers with middle and higher education backgrounds. There are now more than 20,000 people working or studying here including those from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao and foreign countries and regions.
Such burgeoning industries have become the pillar of the Park as electronics, biopharmaceuticals and new materials, accounting for 75 percent of the gross industrial output of the Park.
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