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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, November 16, 2001

Suzhou Industrial Park Lures More Overseas Investment

The Suzhou Industrial Park in east China's Jiangsu Province has so far approved more than 600 overseas-financed enterprises, with contracted overseas investment exceeding 10 billion U.S. dollars.


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The Suzhou Industrial Park in east China's Jiangsu Province has so far approved more than 600 overseas-financed enterprises, with contracted overseas investment exceeding 10 billion U.S. dollars.

Of all the projects, 45 percent are financed by European and American investors, 26 percent by Singapore investors, and 12 percent by people from Japan and the Republic of Korea.

Most of the overseas investment has been put into the high-tech industry, said Wang Jinhua, director of the park's administrative bureau, Friday.

The information technology sector alone absorbs 42.6 percent of the foreign-invested projects. The other projects involve precise machinery, bio-pharmaceutical medicine and new materials.

Wang said the park is expected to double the amount of foreign capital to more than 20 billion U.S. dollars in three years as more overseas investors will come to Suzhou to seek business opportunities after China becomes a member of the World Trade Organization.






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