The origin of Dushu Lake

Located next to Jinji Lake in Suzhou Industrial Park, it is one of the larger lakes in Suzhou with beautiful scenery and clear water quality.

Suzhou Dushu Lake University Town

Basic profile

Suzhou Dushu Lake Higher Education Zone is an important construction project for Suzhou to develop higher education, vigorously cultivate innovative talents and enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of the city. It is also an important measure for Suzhou to strengthen its economy and technology. Dushu Lake Higher Education Zone, located in the south of Suzhou Industrial Park, is a major cooperation project between the Chinese and New Zealand governments. Its development goal is a modern industrial park with high and new technology as the guide, modern industry as the main body and tertiary industry as the support for social welfare undertakings.

Suzhou Dushu Lake Higher Education Zone has a total area of 10 square kilometers, of which 3 square kilometers will be turned into a graduate education base, attracting 8 to 10 well-known universities at home and abroad to set up graduate schools or branches in the city, mainly engaged in graduate education; 3 square kilometers to build a pioneer park, attract R&D institutions, explore innovative talent training mode and new mechanism of Industry-University-Research integration; 2 square kilometers is the new campus of Suzhou University, and the Institute of Technology of Suzhou University will be built. The rest will build supporting facilities for teaching, scientific research and living services.

Construction background

On the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the development and construction of Suzhou Industrial Park, the leaders of China and New Zealand put forward the new requirement of "building the park into a high-tech industrial park with international competitiveness".

The sixth meeting of the China-Singapore Joint Coordinating Council proposed: building the park into a high-tech industrial base; Improve the functions of infrastructure and urban modernization, and create a good investment and living environment; Build new advantages of scientific and technological talents and increase the recruitment and training of talents.

Suzhou draws on the experience of running higher education at home and abroad to improve the level of Suzhou's higher education and realize the important measures of strengthening the city by economy and revitalizing the city by science and technology. It is a strategic measure to cultivate high-quality talents in Suzhou.

organization structure

The Suzhou Municipal Government has set up a leading group for Suzhou Dushu Lake Higher Education Zone and Suzhou International Education Park, with "Suzhou Dushu Lake Higher Education Zone Construction Headquarters" and "Suzhou Dushu Lake Higher Education Zone Management Office" (located in the park management committee) as the daily offices of the leading group and headquarters.

Suzhou Industrial Park Education Development Investment Company was founded by Suzhou Industrial Park Management Committee. Under the leadership of the government, relying on the strong development momentum of Suzhou and Suzhou Industrial Park, taking the education industry as the foundation, taking the development of science and technology as the goal, and according to the laws of market economy, undertaking the planning, construction, introduction of high-quality educational resources at home and abroad, investment attraction and functional development of Suzhou Dushu Lake Higher Education Zone. Provide services and public management for universities, R&D institutions and enterprises; Cooperate, support and promote the long-term economic development of Suzhou, and realize the ultimate social and economic benefits.

Development and construction

Development mode:

Unified planning and phased development

The government set up a university to run the school.

Operation marketization and logistics urbanization

Form of running a school:

A form of running a school with government investment as the main factor.

Cooperative forms of joint investment in running schools

Local and school cooperation in running schools

Forms of running schools by social forces

Independent school-running form

development strategy

Scientific research development strategy

Closely integrate with leading industries and industrial parks in Suzhou, and give priority to the introduction of higher education and scientific research institutions related to information technology, electronic engineering, precision machinery, bioengineering, medicine and pharmacy.

Industrial development strategy

Pay attention to the development trend of education industrialization, give play to the driving effect of the joint development of education, high-tech industries, cultural industries and tourism services, and realize the diversified development of industries.

Spatial development strategy

Hardware resources are allocated in different levels, and the whole Dushu Lake Higher Education Zone is divided into urban comprehensive development zone and education zone in space, and the rolling development of traffic arteries is used to promote the formation of urban space.

Development goals

Become a gathering place of higher education resources with international standards.

It has two functions: to reserve and cultivate high-quality compound innovative talents.

It has become the three centers of Suzhou's high-tech talents, higher education resources and scientific research and development in colleges and universities.

Become a modern area integrating learning, research, production and living.

It has become an experimental base for exploring and developing China's higher education and carrying out various school-running systems, forms, operating mechanisms, capital investment and training models.

Planning layout

geographical position

Dushu Lake Higher Education Zone is located in the south of Suzhou Industrial Park, with flat terrain and vertical and horizontal river networks, which has the landform characteristics of Jiangnan water town. The east and south are the planned urban trunk roads, Dushu Lake in the west, and the new airport road in the north is the planned urban expressway. Its northeast corner and the north side of the new airport road are planned urban transportation hubs, and the urban light rail passes through the territory and goes straight to Shanghai.

Functional localization

With higher education as the main body, a modern urban new area integrating scientific research and production, living and living, and cultural leisure will be formed.

Layout characteristics

Digital virtual city with network organization function and ecological elastic landscape design.

Joint project

The cooperation between Suzhou Graduate School of Nanjing University, Suzhou University and Irish Lyme Rick has been officially approved by the Ministry of Education, and projects such as the new campus of Suzhou University, Suzhou Research Institute of University of Science and Technology of China and Suzhou Research Institute of Renmin University of China have also started.

Overseas universities such as Warwick University, Dayton University and Hong Kong University also cooperate with Dushu Lake Higher Education Zone in different forms.