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Suzhou Industrial Park successfully launched the report meeting on development ideas for the 12th Five Year period

Suzhou Industrial Park successfully held a meeting to discuss ideas for developing the park during the 12th Five Year period.The meeting was held in Beijing on January 6. Four hundred representatives from various organizations including the National Development and Reform Commission,the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Asset Regulatory Commission, the China Banking Regulatory Commission, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, the Chinese Academy of Science, state-owned enterprises, financial firms and universities attended the meeting. Shi Erwei, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Science; Wang Jinhua, President of the Suzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; and Ma Minglong,Member of the Standing Committee of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee all addressed the meeting.

Yang Zhiping, Director of the Suzhou Industrial Park Working Committee, delivered the report titled New Industry, New City and New Talent—the Suzhou Industrial Park faces the 12th Five-Year Plan. At the meeting, representatives of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology unveiled a new award for Suzhou, honoring it as a National Demonstration Base for Innovation in the Service Trade—the first award of its kind in China. Six enterprises, including EMS and Beijing Highlander Digital Technology Co.Ltd., signed contracts with Suzhou Industrial Park worth nearly 1.2 billion yuan ($180 million). Also, Founder International and Easy Map signed contracts for a GIS-related project at the meeting.

Suzhou Industrial Park has made a lot of contributions in the past 17 years. With its accumulated industrial base, preferential policies and financial advantages, Suzhou Industrial Park has expanded its investment to the service field and tried to shift from labor intensive to capital, technology and knowledge-intensive service exporting. By the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan period,Suzhou Industrial Park’s service business will account for more than 20 percent of its total revenues.

As a cooperative project between China and Singapore, Suzhou Industrial Park has always strived to be a leading example of China’s reform and opening-up policies as well as the transformation of the development pattern of China’s economy.

Looking ahead to the 12th Five-Year Plan, Suzhou Industrial Park has set building a creative economy and service economy as its two main goals.

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