Suzhou Park blueprint mapped By Jiang Su (China Daily) Updated: 2004-05-18 08:44
China and Singapore will maintain their commitment to developing Suzhou
Industrial Park and build it into an internationally competitive high-tech park,
senior officials of both countries said yesterday.
The China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park, located in the east end of Suzhou
in East China's Jiangsu Province, is the biggest economic and technological
co-operative project between the Chinese and Singaporean governments.
It celebrated its 10th anniversary last week.
Its developer is the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Co
Ltd (CSSD), a Sino-Singapore joint venture that is 65 per cent held by China and
35 per cent held by Singapore.
Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong visited Suzhou yesterday
and attended the Seventh China-Singapore Joint Steering Council Meeting on
future development of the park. The meeting was also attended by China's
Vice-Premier Wu Yi.
The meeting was told that the industrial park was a successful example for
Sino-foreign cooperative projects.
Both the Chinese and Singaporean parties will continue to contribute to the
project according to the existing co-operative framework and fulfil their
commitment to investors.
It is intended to build the park into one that is competitive on the world
stage during the next decade, by improving the infrastructure and rationalizing
the industrial structure.
During the past 10 years, the park has attracted US$16.7 billion of
contracted foreign investment and US$7.2 billion of actual foreign
investment.