Suzhou is synonymous with beautiful landscaped gardens, but it also has one of China’s fastest-growing development zones.
This is the latest rust-prevention technology for buses. Dipping the bus frame into the tank ensures that there will be no missing spots for the rust-proofing. The company says innovations like this make its products more popular in the growing overseas market.
The bus company’s improved quality also helped it expand in the domestic market.
This factory is now running 24 hours a day due to increased demand. To make the work more efficient, 1,000 workers are assigned to 16 different workstations along this 400-meter assembly line.
Higer, which says last year’s sales totalled 8.8 billion yuan, is just one of many manufacturers in the Suzhou Industrial Park. The entire manufacturing industry in this area is expected to make more than 150 trillion yuan by the end of 2015.
To attract investors and workers, the local government is providing many incentives like tax breaks for tech firms, housing subsidies and loan guarantees for high-end talent. It’s no wonder more than 1,000 technology companies have set up in the park.
In contrast to the newer, faster feel of the industrial park, it’s all about preserving the slow and traditional ways at Suzhou’s ancient gardens and streets.
The bridge and water, windows and rooftops you see along this one-kilometer stretch of Pingjiang Road look pretty much the way they did 800 years ago. The local government relocated as few people as possible in order to keep the area’s original flavor.
People like Zhao do make the place more attractive to tourists.
Just as Suzhou’s historic charms take visitors back centuries, the innovations at the city’s industrial park gives the economy its leading edge.
Source: CCTV
