Guide to job hunting and life in Suzhou: Characteristics of Industrial Parks

Suzhou Job Seeking Life Guide: Characteristics of Industrial Parks

1. The industrial structure is more optimized. The park adheres to the development path of economic internationalization and new industrialization, and strives to promote high-tech industrialization. Especially in recent years, we have actively innovated investment promotion concepts and paid more attention to improving the quality and effectiveness of projects. There has been a significant increase in tax source projects, research and development projects, productive service projects and high-tech projects. In 2005, there were US$3.81 billion in new registered foreign capital, US$1.58 billion in foreign capital, and more than 25 billion yuan in registered domestic capital. There were 13 new Fortune 500 investment projects and 11 R&D projects. The number of new projects and employment in the service industry increased for the first time. Exceeding the manufacturing industry, an average of 2 industrial enterprises started operations every day, both setting historical records. At present, the region has introduced a total of US$23.95 billion in contracted foreign investment, US$10.18 billion in actual utilized foreign investment, and 76 billion yuan in registered domestic capital, forming a development pattern driven by both domestic and foreign investment. In terms of regional structure, 49 projects came from Europe and the United States, 18 projects from Japan and South Korea, 6 projects from Singapore, and 22 projects from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In terms of investment scale, there are more than 60 projects with investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, including 6 projects of more than 1 billion US dollars. The average investment amount of projects in the zone exceeds 30 million US dollars. 53 Fortune 500 companies have invested in 85 projects in the zone; At the industrial level: the number of high-tech enterprises at or above the provincial level has exceeded 100, especially in the areas of IC, TFT-LCD, automobile and aviation parts, etc., a high-tech industrial cluster with certain international competitiveness has been formed. The park has become China's largest LCD panel shipment base and chip packaging and testing base. Its large bus and chip production capacity ranks among the top three in the country.

2. Innovation capabilities are increasing day by day. Over the years, we have always adhered to the path of connotative development, insisted on taking scientific and technological progress as the basis for establishing and strengthening the district, and continuously increased support for technological innovation. In 2005, we launched the Science and Technology Leap Plan to comprehensively accelerate the pace of science and technology development. The growth of science and technology investment in the region increased from the original 20% to about 30%, and the share of scientific and technological progress contribution reached more than 70%. From the perspective of innovation carrier construction: the National Electronic Information Industry Base, National Integrated Circuit Industrial Park, National Animation Industry Base, National Entrepreneurship Service Center, National Software Park and other scientific and technological achievement transformation bases of more than 200,000 square meters have been built. Among them, international The Science Park has gathered more than 90% of Suzhou's IC design companies and 60% of pure software R&D companies. From the perspective of cultivating innovative entities: Actively implement the science and education priority strategy, have invested more than 3 billion yuan, and formed a relatively complete network of basic education, vocational education, and higher education. At the same time, it focuses on the introduction of high-end talents, comprehensive talents and leading R&D talents, and has gathered more than 200 companies founded by overseas students, more than 50 multinational companies and national-level R&D and design institutions, 6 postdoctoral workstations, and more than 200 senior professional and technical talents of various types. Thousands of names. From the perspective of creating an innovative environment: a number of innovative functional platforms such as the Zhongke Integrated Circuit Design Center, Jiangsu Provincial Integrated Circuit Productivity Promotion Center, and Suzhou Software Evaluation Center have been built; venture capital and talent training totaling more than 2 billion yuan have been established , small and medium-sized enterprise entrepreneurial guarantees, and special funds for the development of IC design, software research and development, animation industry, biology, nanotechnology and other fields, and cooperated with Taiwan Jardine and Israel Infinite Venture Capital to form 10 various venture capital institutions. At the same time, it took the lead in establishing an intellectual property protection center and is currently creating a national intellectual property protection demonstration zone.

3. The development of the tertiary industry has caught up from behind. In accordance with the spirit of the instructions of the province and city to accelerate the development of the modern service industry, actively promote the development of the park service industry? Doubling plan?: striving to quadruple the three-product brand projects, triple the commercial carrier area, and quadruple the added value of the service industry within 5 years , the proportion in GDP increases by 1 to 2 percentage points every year.

In the past two years, we have focused on Jinji Lake, Yangcheng Lake and Dushu Lake, giving priority to the development of producer service industries. We have invested more than 20 billion yuan in building modern logistics parks, science and technology culture and art centers, international expo centers and other large-scale production It has more than 600,000 square meters of service facilities and 500,000 square meters of various commercial carriers such as Left Bank Commercial Street and Jinji Lake Commercial Plaza. It has successively introduced more than 10 well-known commercial brands such as Wal-Mart, Carrefour, and Century Lianhua, and has settled in Prosper in the United States. It has gathered more than 20 international logistics companies, including HSBC Hong Kong and Standard Chartered, and more than 30 well-known professional institutions such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte Accounting Firm, which has effectively promoted the transformation of the traditional service industry. Accelerate the upgrading of the modern service industry. In 2005, the added value of the service industry in the region was 14.3 billion yuan, accounting for an increase of 1.3 percentage points in GDP. The area around Jinji Lake is becoming a new modern commercial and cultural center in Suzhou.

4. Urban functions continue to improve. The development of the park highlights the "people-oriented" concept, better reflects economic development, scientific and technological progress, and the harmonious unity of man and nature, forming a strong comprehensive environmental advantage. (1) Adhere to planning first. From the beginning of development, the park has prepared a forward-looking master plan, formulated and improved more than 300 professional plans, and established scientific development procedures of "plan first before construction, first underground before above ground" and "strict law enforcement". ? Planning and management system. (2) Moderate advance investment. More than 30 billion yuan of infrastructure construction funds have been invested, and the development of major infrastructure in the 70-square-kilometer China-Singapore Cooperation Zone has been basically completed in accordance with the "nine connections and one square meter" standard. (3) Create a good living environment with high standards. Firmly establish the concept of "green park", focus on the renovation and development of Jinji Lake, vigorously implement greening, lighting, and beautification projects, actively create an ecological garden city, and successively build a number of open-style lakeside avenues, cultural water corridors, and red maple forests. The landscape and supporting commercial service facilities such as cultural tourism, catering and entertainment have added a total of 17 million square meters of green space, with a green space coverage rate of more than 45%, providing the best living and entrepreneurial environment for enterprises and residents in the area. Currently, the China-Singapore Cooperation Zone has more than 120,000 employed people and nearly 100,000 residents, including more than 8,000 foreigners.

5. Harmonious economic and social development. In accordance with the scientific outlook on development and the requirements of building a harmonious society, while accelerating development, the park pays more attention to comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development. (1) Pay attention to intensive utilization of resources. In 2005, by implementing an active business and capital selection strategy, accelerating industrial upgrading, accelerating project aggregation, accelerating corporate capital increase and share expansion, and encouraging the development of various types of buildings such as commercial housing and standard factories to high-rise buildings, the land intensity level was at a relatively high level. There have been new improvements. While the actual utilization of foreign capital has increased by 15%, the land transfer area has decreased by 30%. The investment intensity of industrial land per square kilometer in Zhongxin District has reached 1.7 billion US dollars, and the rental rate of standard factory buildings has increased by 15 percentage points. (2) Pay attention to ecological and environmental protection. By establishing the concept of "green investment" and taking measures such as early intervention and "one-vote veto" by the environmental protection department, we strive to control the entry of polluting projects from the source. Over the past decade, more than 200 investment projects have been rejected due to environmental protection factors, with cumulative contracted foreign investment exceeding US$1.1 billion. At the same time, we actively build a conservation-oriented society and take the lead in launching pilot projects for circular economy and ecological industrial parks across the country. The overall regional environment has passed ISO14000 certification, which has effectively promoted the overall coordination and scientific development of economy, society, and environment. (3) Pay attention to the construction of a harmonious society. Adhere to the principles of "governing the district with morality" and "people-oriented, focusing on construction", and actively promote the construction of spiritual civilization through the use of facts and facts; from the perspective of enriching the people, being close to the people, and providing convenience, we will coordinate social resources and comprehensively promote science, education, and culture We will carry out various practical projects such as sanitation, ecological environmental protection, and poverty alleviation, and comprehensively establish and improve community management and service systems based on neighborhood centers; actively create "safe parks", improve comprehensive social management networks, and strive to create the best human settlements and entrepreneurship environment.

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