Located outside of Shanghai, Suzhou was looking to distinguish itself from its larger-than-life neighboring city.
Graduate of Suzhou University studied interior design before zeroing in on career in apparel.
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C. officials on a trade mission, and we spent a day in the thriving Suzhou.
SIP, as a way to move 130 or so industries out of Suzhou's city centre.
At first sight, a visitor to Suzhou might be tempted to believe Mr Lee's charge of municipal favouritism.
Ambitions at another government-sponsored zone in Wuxi (like Suzhou, in Jiangsu province) are likely to be scaled back.
The man is in a serious condition in hospital days after returning from the Chinese city of Suzhou, officials say.
Many prefer Kunshan to the nearby cities of Shanghai and Suzhou because of its lower labour costs and less cumbersome bureaucracy.
Suzhou, one of 280 prefecture-level cities, has a per capita GDP which is 70% and 46% higher than Beijing and Shanghai, respectively.
Kraft recently opened a new facility in Suzhou Industrial Park, near Shanghai.
Its factory in Qingdao was set on fire, and its facilities in Zhuhai and Suzhou were confronted by outraged workers last weekend.
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China and Singapore officially agreed to cooperate in developing the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park as a mutually beneficial, inter-governmental project in February 1994.
Mr Lee's gripe is that the authorities are developing a rival economic zone, the Suzhou New District, to the west of the town.
Suzhou city officials saw the value in developing the fertile ground needed to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), but they could not do it alone.
Before 1990, Suzhou was a beautiful tourist town, the home of many garden villas that were the summer homes of Ming and Qing Dynasty officials.
Nor is Suzhou the only place where Singaporean initiatives have stumbled.
This route takes you through some stunning scenery including the Unesco World Heritage site Huangshan, ancient villages in Anhui and the charming canal towns of Suzhou.
Across the Suzhou Creek in the Hongkou District, the riverfront turns into the North Bund, which has been redeveloped as a transport hub centred on a passenger cruise terminal.
Attendees in Shanghai included a production executive at Nike's close-by Suzhou Sports subsidiary, which makes the rigid plastic support of its shoe's sole using Huntsman's diphenylmethane diisocyanate, or MDI.
Attendees in Shanghai included a production executive at Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people )'s close-by Suzhou Sports subsidiary, which makes the rigid plastic support of its shoe's sole using Huntsman's diphenylmethane diisocyanate, or MDI.
She will visit World Heritage Sites in Suzhou, where the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research is based, and Hangzhou, where she will give the Mayor a certificate nominating it as a UNESCO City of Crafts and Folk Art.
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