About 10 foreign experts immerse themselves in traditional Suzhou-style Lunar New Year celebrations at the Lingering Garden on Feb 7. [Photo/suzhou.cutv.com]
About 10 foreign experts immersed themselves in traditional Suzhou-style Lunar New Year celebrations at the Lingering Garden on Feb 7, local media outlets reported.
The experts, who were from countries like the United States, France, South Korea, Brazil, Nigeria, and Jamaica, took a tour around the classical garden and tried their hands at writing Spring Festival couplets.
"I love everything in Suzhou – its landscape, history and culture, as well as renowned gardens, such as the Humble Administrator's Garden, Lion Grove, and Master-of-Nets Garden," said a French teacher at the local Soochow University who named himself Lu Shande in Chinese and has been working in China for 10 years.
An expert from Nigeria said that it was her first time to attend such a cultural activity.
"I want to continue to live in Suzhou, as it is quite suitable for working, living, and doing research," she said.
The activity was organized by the municipal bureaus of science and technology, as well as landscape and greening management.
Suzhou is now home to the fifth largest group of foreign talents in China. It brought in 902 high-end foreign talents in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 3.2 percent. The total of high-end foreign talents in Suzhou reached 4,747. There are also 11,509 foreigners holding valid work permits in the city.
