A 400-meter-high skyscraper will be erected in Suzhou by the year 2013 as the "No.1 building" of Suzhou. On Oct. 9, SIP Property Development Co., Ltd. and Wharf Holding Ltd., a leading property investment company in Hong Kong, signed a contract of cooperation on the development and construction of the high-rise building. Wang Rong, Executive Member of CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee and Secretary of CPC Suzhou Municipal Committee, and Wang Jinhua, Deputy Secretary of CPC Suzhou Municipal Committee and Secretary of SIP Party Working Committee, attended the signing ceremony and met Mr. Lee Weiren, Senior Vice-chairman of Wharf Holdings, and his entourage.

The cooperation project, located on the east of Jinji Lake with a total floorage of 350,000 square meters, will be the tallest building in Suzhou, embracing a 5-star hotel, serviced apartments, and offices. A senior manager of Wharf Holdings told reporters that the company had invited well-known architects to undertake the designing of this super-high building. The construction is expected to commence by 2008 and will be completed by 2013. Wharf Holdings Ltd. has business operations currently in Shanghai, Dalian, and other Chinese cities, and it began investment in Suzhou in 2006, and has gathered a land area of a million square meters in reserve.

At the meeting, Wang Rong gave an account of the development situation of China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park and expressed that the skyscraper project in SIP would become a landmark property project in the urban modernization of Suzhou.

Source: Sipac

Singapore Airlines, in its global top-rating service, successfully carried the first batch of export air cargo of Andrew Telecommunication (China) Co., Ltd., SIP, by using Suzhou's "virtual airport" for a "connected land and air shipment" on Sept. 26. Handled by Danzas Z.F. Freight Agency Co., Ltd., the cargo was declared at SIP customs and delivered to the warehouse of Shanghai Eastern Logistics Co., Ltd. for loading, and the customs clearance took altogether less than 8 hours to complete. The "virtual airport" of Suzhou has thus entered into the stage of field operation in the true sense of two-way "direct flight" for export and import.

The first Factory Outlet center was opened on Sept. 28 on the south of Ligongdi Island in SIP, adding a new form of retail business in Suzhou. Popular Brands like Adidas, Nike, Rebook can be buyed there. The popular Outlet shopping center , 30,000m2 in area for the first phase, sells garments of over a hundred brands of international and domestic fame. The Outlet in Suzhou will be expanded into a chain of 5 stores by the year 2020.

The totally redecorated Dream Hollywood celebrated its long awaited re-opening with many parties and Top DJs to show its visitors what to expect in the near future. On Tuesday September 25th Dream Hollywood will Everybody's turn to throw an opening bash starring great DJs like Carl and DJ Solaris.
There hit the town as part of their Asia Tour. So this night promised to become a good clubbing occasion to check out the technically very advanced venue with an enormous sound system and latest light decoration. Dream Hollywood will set "A new chapter in China Hi-Tech Trance.

The Grand Opening will start the 5 days "Full Moon Party". Powerful Trance and Clubbing sound from will give visitors a new feeling in Suzhou. On two floors Dream Hollywood want also set a new chapter in beverages serving french Moet champagne and other specialties.

Dream Hollywood (杰姆 . 好萊坞) is located Shiquan Street. The chinese address is 十全街.

Suzhou has become one of the fastest growing and most competitive cities in China, thanks to momentum created by its outward-oriented economy. With the presence of 113 of the World 500 companies, the city is on its way to becoming a production base for the IT, automotive parts, moulding, precision machinery and packaging sectors. Last year, Suzhou's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 482.026 billion yuan.

The economic growth has provided great development opportunities for the local exhibition industry. Suzhou's industrial and geographic advantages make it an excellent choice for hosting high-quality expositions, and the Suzhou International Expo Center is an ideal venue to showcase famous brands.

Located in the heart of Suzhou Industrial Park and facing Jinji Lake, China's largest municipal lake, Suzhou International Expo Center resembles an elegant fold-out fan.

The center occupies an area of 188,600 sq m with a total designed construction area of 255,000 sq m -- one of the largest centers of its kind in Jiangsu Province.

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There is one more scenery around Jinji Lake. Yesterday, 6 yellow open double-decker buses droved to the SIP street, around Jinji Lake. These buses will be the sight-seeing buses rounding Jinji Lake, and put into operation on 1 May. As record, introducing advanced open double-decker buses to provide sightseeing and traffic service is the first time in our Jiangsu Province.

The sightseeing line of the open double-decker buses is 15.9 kilometers. The buses open at up-floor with 41 seats and close at down-floor with 28 seats. There is electro-guidepost fore-and-after the bus and electro-screen in it. When stop at every stop, it will say the stop name with both Chinese and English.

Source: http://www.suzhou.gov.cn

The building of Su-Tong Bridge which attracts the whole world focus turns into the last stage of sprint. By yesterday, the main bridge of 2088 meters only leaved the last 192 meters; The building of inclined pull-line leaved the last 24 pairs; The south-north bridge approach and the incidental bridge with 6118 meters will complete the concrete mould of the last two bridge floors at the beginning of May; It foresees that the main bridge will realizes the gather in June; The bitumen and concrete pave of the bridge floor will complete before 1 October.

So The victory of opening to trafic of the Su-Tong Bridge in the next spring is within sight.

As record, It foresees that the main bridge, south-north bridge and the incidental bridge of Su-Tong Bridge will realize the run-through of whole bridge.

Source: http://www.suzhou.gov.cn