Postcard commemorating Suzhou Industrial Park’s 20th birthday. [Photo/Suzhou Daily]

The Suzhou Industrial Park, a joint Sino-Singapore project in the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, held a ceremony, on Oct 18, to announce a special postcard to commemorate its 20th anniversary, at the park’s Archives, with Chinese and Singaporean government officials and enterprise representatives on hand.

The postcard design reflected a postage stamp for the park's 10th anniversary, and its official logo, the landmark sculpture of "Harmony", and Jinji Lake, a ferris wheel, the Gate of the Orient, a rainbow, and some balloons rising to express the desire for increased cooperation with Singapore and China.

The Chinese and Singaporean officials included: Zhou Naixiang, mayor of Suzhou; Gao Shan, general manager of distribution at China Post; Wang Xiang, secretary of Suzhou Industrial Park; Lim Chee Onn, chairman of China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group’s Singapore Consortium; Chang Hwee Nee, deputy secretary of Singapore’s National Development Ministry; and Ong Siew Gay, consul-general of Singapore in Shanghai.

The park also announced the opening of its new planning exhibition center the same day, just off Suzhou Ave, on 15,000 square meters of ground, with three parts of 19 sections. It has multimedia exhibits that take visitors back to the park’s very beginning then on a twenty-year journey of its continuous construction development, from a tract of farmland to a modern new district with manufacturing, hi-tech industries, and a service sector.