Chapter 18 Chapter 16 Dazzling and Fantastic Storm and Rainbow Picture

I read this little poem in an inconspicuous publicity window in the industrial park. The author is a girl from Suzhou who works in a foreign company.She also distributes the beautiful image she left in Jinji Lake next to the poem, which is very beautiful, elegant and romantic.At the top of Jinji Lake behind her, a colorful long rainbow became the background of her photo. Standing in front of this photo, I was a little fascinated... In fact, tourists who come to Suzhou today, in addition to visiting the small bridges and flowing water in the ancient city, Tiger Hill, Guanqian Street and those gardens, if they don’t visit the beautiful scenery of the park by the Jinji Lake, they can only visit half of Suzhou at most.

There are at least three places that can be visited in Suzhou City: the ancient city style, the "new Suzhou" with real mountains and rivers - the high-tech zone, and the picturesque "foreign Suzhou" - the industrial park. In our traditional concept, industrial areas and development areas, in addition to roads, are factories and machines roaring, cars and bulldozers coming and going, and extremely polluting chimneys soaring into the sky.But in Suzhou Industrial Park, you can’t see these things. What you can see is a large garden composed of all kinds of precious plants and trees, a large scenic spot composed of various buildings integrating simple and fashionable elements, and various themes presented One by one cultural square...

The factory buildings are surrounded by green trees and flowers. Even if you enter the factory area, you think you are in a certain theme park. The roads, lamps, poles, chairs, and even dustbins along the way have unique expressive artistic shapes. In the industrial park, there are world-class golf courses, pleasant and quiet apartments and villas, as well as covered bridges and stone pavilions in the style of Suzhou water town, and shallow water features... In short, Suzhou Industrial Park actually has a completely different concept from its literal name.It is said that this is also an important part of Lee Kuan Yew's "Singapore Software".

Panorama around Jinji Lake "Our industrial park is people-oriented, and the economic development of enterprises is based on people's comfortable life and in a beautiful environment, so it is beautiful and quiet, but also fashionable and beautiful." Lee Kuan Yew once in many This kind of "software model" of him is promoted on various world forums. "In China, in Suzhou, our software has achieved the most perfect expression." Lee Kuan Yew said very proudly, "Suzhou people refer to the industrial park as their 'foreign Suzhou', and I am very pleased with this."

Undoubtedly, since the day when the "Suzhou Industrial Park" jointly created by China and New Zealand rose in the beautiful ancient city of Suzhou, it has been like an exceptionally bright pearl shining on the earth, attracting the attention and attention of people in the world's economic circles. Looking forward, curious and concerned.Some people hope to learn from it, while others secretly expect that the two eastern friendly countries will fight and quarrel, and finally break up angrily... Everything is possible.With the ever-changing world economy and the cultural differences under different systems, whether the "baby sons" born in China and New Zealand can grow up healthy and strong has attracted the attention of the world.

According to the agreement between the governments of China and Singapore and the "General Business Agreement" signed between Suzhou and Singapore, the initial task of the park is to participate in infrastructure construction for the Chinese side, while the Singaporean side focuses on attracting investment.During this period, Suzhou people have learned a lot of valuable experience from Singapore’s true skills in attracting investment and investment, while China’s diligence, wisdom and open attitude have made Singapore strongly feel the vitality and charm of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

After the start of construction in May 1994, the park was undergoing tremendous changes every day. What surprised Suzhou people in particular was that in the following year or so, almost every piece of the park was developed and constructed, and foreign businessmen settled down to buy a piece of property. …this is primarily due to Singapore’s efforts to effectively promote the Suzhou Industrial Park around the world.What moved the Suzhou government officials was that the Singapore government, from the prime minister to the ministers, from the senior minister Lee Kuan Yew to the officials of the Economic Development Bureau, without exception, went to the developed countries in the world to lobby and mobilize those wealthy businessmen to invest in Suzhou.

In early October 1995, the second council meeting of Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park was held in Suzhou.Li Lanqing, Vice Premier of China, and Lee Hsien Loong, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, sat together and walked around the 2-square-kilometer start-up area of ​​the park. They both had smiles on their faces. Li Lanqing smiled more happily than Lee Hsien Loong. He said to the Singapore guests : Your "software" is indeed worthy of our introduction and study.Lee Hsien Loong said: Even the best "software" needs a suitable platform, and Suzhou in China is the best platform for our "software".At this meeting, Suzhou Mayor Zhang Xinsheng reported to the Vice Premiers of the two countries that the infrastructure of the start-up area of ​​2 square kilometers in the park was basically completed, and the standard factory buildings of 90,000 square meters and the commercial and residential buildings of 30,000 square meters were also completed.The park has achieved remarkable results in attracting investment. 45 companies from the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries and regions have settled in the park, with a total investment of 1.42 billion US dollars.

"The park has just taken shape, and it has attracted investment from companies from so many countries! It is worth celebrating!" At the banquet, Comrade Li Lanqing frequently toasted to Lee Hsien Loong and other Singaporean guests, congratulating them on their hard work and fruitful achievements. Lee Hsien Loong deliberately walked up to the new Secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee Yang Xiaotang and his old friend and mayor Zhang Xinsheng, and raised his glass: "I have to thank you two and the people of Suzhou for their support to the park!" Yang Xiaotang and Zhang Xinsheng responded with a smile: "The park is our common 'baby son', and we in Suzhou have the responsibility to let this baby son grow up healthy and strong."

Lee Hsien Loong said: "Our precious son is still young. The younger he is, the more he needs a hotbed suitable for his growth. You Suzhou gave our precious son the best hotbed, otherwise South Korea's 'Samsung' would not So it’s easy to come here and settle down.” Yang Xiaotang and Zhang Xinsheng laughed.Because they went through the whole process of what Lee Hsien Loong said about "Samsung" settling in the park - this is a merchant hired by Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in person. For this reason, Secretary Yang Xiaotang went to South Korea to discuss with Mr. Lee of the "Samsung" group.

Boss Li frowned when he saw the Chinese people coming to talk about the project, and said: "It's not that I don't want to invest in your country, but to run the next investment project in your country. It will take several years for the approval. I'm Samsung. 'It can't take that long." Yang Xiaotang patted his chest to the Korean boss and said, "Don't worry about it, as long as you agree to invest, I guarantee that the project approval procedures will be completed within half a month!" Boss Li of "Samsung" said doubtfully, "Then let's try it!" It doesn’t matter if the customer from Suzhou left Korea for six or seven days, the boss of “Samsung” got an important message from Suzhou: “Samsung”’s project to settle in Suzhou Industrial Park has been officially approved by the Chinese government! a week!They can complete the approval procedures in a week? ! The boss of "Samsung" was shocked. From then on, he believed that there would be no "bureaucracy" in Suzhou Industrial Park.In fact, the staff of the park told me that no matter how large the investment project is, they can approve it within half a month.This is "China Speed", and even Singaporeans are deeply impressed by the "pro-business spirit" of Suzhou people. "Samsung", as the first batch of foreign-funded enterprises to settle in the park, felt the charm of the "Singapore software" that has been localized here. Therefore, from the initial investment of 150 million U.S. dollars, it finally developed to an investment of more than 1 billion U.S. dollars. There are already six or seven "three-star" enterprises in Suzhou Industrial Park. In 2007, among the "Samsung" enterprises outside of Korea, only those in Suzhou, China were profitable. Now the "Samsung" Group even moved its R&D center to Suzhou Jinji Lake. The "Suzhou edge" of "Samsung" later became an example for many foreign companies to settle in Suzhou Industrial Park. In fact, "Samsung" is not the only one relying on the platform of Suzhou Industrial Park to realize its great development.At present, more than 70 of the 3,000 foreign-funded enterprises, including the world's top 500, have obtained the best development benefits in the world here. This "Suzhou Benefit" has already had a wide impact on the world. The Singapore branch of the Danish Grundfos pump company came to Suzhou Industrial Park to invest at the end of 1995. The boss of the company came to Suzhou under the influence of "idol" Lee Kuan Yew.At that time, they doubted whether China could give them a platform for business development.When they first arrived in the park, they rented two buildings to explore the development.Two or three years later, I found that all the development space here is wider than any other place in the world. "It is an all-weather green channel." The Malaysian general manager of the company, Chen Nianzhong, is an overseas Chinese. He commented on the conditions and environment of foreign companies in Suzhou Industrial Park. "Grundfos (Suzhou) has been here for 12 years and has moved four times in total. It has continued to expand, and now it has become the largest production base of Grundfos in the world." Ms. Zhou Lin, the company's personnel manager, accepted my interview, He told me excitedly as soon as he opened his mouth.She herself was originally a staff member of the Suzhou Municipal Government. In 1995, she worked in the Investment Promotion Department of Zhongxin Development Company in the park. She was the first public official who "jumped out" among the senior staff of the park. "I was completely attracted by Grundfos' corporate culture and thriving performance." Zhou Lin said, "I have been with Grundfos for 5 years and experienced their two major relocations. Now Grundfos Suzhou has an With an area of ​​10 hectares and more than 600 employees, the number of people is not the largest, but among the Grundfos Group, our Suzhou company is the best in the world." Although the general manager Chen Nianzhong is an overseas Chinese, he could not even speak a word of Chinese when he first arrived in Suzhou. Now he can not only speak Mandarin Chinese, but also learn Suzhou dialect very well.Chen Nianzhong said: "I think my greatest success in Suzhou lies in the fact that this park fits my personality very well. My greatest strengths are my sense of responsibility and tolerance towards others, and these are very similar to the characteristics of Suzhou Park. In Suzhou, from From the government to the citizens, everyone is tolerant, kind and harmonious.” Boss Chen not only succeeded in his career in the park, but also found a beautiful and virtuous Suzhou girl as his wife.The harmonious marriage between the Malaysian businessman and the Suzhou girl is very similar to the marriage between a Singaporean "software" and a Suzhou native. They have had a first acquaintance stage, a time of love, a passion at the beginning of their marriage, and the pain of a running-in period. From 1995 to 1996, the industrial park took advantage of its initial momentum to attract investment from all over the world, especially European and American countries, and achieved fruitful results.This is thanks to the unremitting efforts and wisdom of Singapore leaders such as Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Chok Tong, and Lee Hsien Loong, as well as their popularity and influence in the world. However, in 1997, especially in 1998, after the first financial crisis in Thailand, several small Asian countries experienced severe economic recession, and Singapore was no exception.The Asian financial crisis does not only affect Asia. The world's economic powers have always been optimistic about the rapid development of Asia and the rising China, and they are cautiously waiting to see.The dignitaries in Singapore who were looking forward to making money in Suzhou Industrial Park, which is booming, not only returned empty-handed in the investment arena for a while, but what made them intolerable was that when they were attracting investment in Germany, they ran into Suzhou, which is also a city of Suzhou. The investment promotion group of the high-tech park played a leading role and took in one big project after another, while the Singapore investment promotion group was ignored by others, it was intolerable! "If you do this, it will affect the cooperation agreement between China and Singapore." Singaporean officials were angry. The world is as big as it is big, and as small as it is.The investment promotion teams from Suzhou frequently appeared in various places in Europe and America one after another. After all kinds of information were collected in the office of Singaporean Minister Lee Kuan Yew, this oriental fighter was a little angry, because it was the Suzhou High-tech Zone that took the lead in Singapore’s investment promotion several times— —Big projects were “digged” one by one to Lion Rock, not Jinji Lake. "I must seriously point out: I am firmly opposed to Suzhou's approach! Due to their disturbance, the investment attraction of our industrial park has dropped sharply... If this continues, we can only declare the failure of China-Singapore cooperation!" Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew was really angry Yes, not long ago, he got another important news from Chinese officials: Zhang Xinsheng, his old friend, go-between and main contributor in Suzhou Industrial Park, is no longer the mayor of Suzhou. In December, Lee Kuan Yew went to Beijing and expressed his displeasure to President Jiang Zemin. "It's easy to say, we are a family! The Suzhou Industrial Park of Sino-Singapore cooperation is related to our traditional friendship and the promotion and development of new economic forms. We will fully support it, including the preference of investment projects." Jiang Zemin said to Lee Kuan Yew as The old friends of the Chinese people are welcome to visit China again.Jiang Zemin said that Suzhou Industrial Park, the largest cooperation project between the governments of China and New Zealand, is the top priority of China-New Zealand economic cooperation, and it is also a key project of China's foreign cooperation.He emphasized that Chinese leaders have always supported the Suzhou Industrial Park project, and China is willing to work together with New Zealand to concentrate on the construction of the park and jointly promote the continuous development of China-New Zealand economic cooperation. The world-renowned Singaporean fighter finally gave up, and his complexion improved a lot. "I trust you," Lee Kuan Yew said. Now it's the Suzhou people's turn to be under pressure.Suzhou people are not the only ones under pressure?Not long after, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee made a decision to appoint Liang Baohua, a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary-General, as the Secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. "Liang Baohua used to go out from Suzhou to understand the situation in Suzhou. At that time, the province had a very important guiding ideology, which was to resolve the dispute over the development of industrial parks between China and Singapore." Meng Huanmin, then secretary-general of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, recalled road. Maybe it’s because Wang Jinhua, who was born in Kunshan’s self-funded development zone, is capable, maybe it’s because Suzhou people are extremely smart, maybe the development of the high-tech zone is really too dazzling, and the left and right wings of Gusu are only a year or two away from the two parks that were born together—the high-tech zone It was developed by the people of Suzhou by their own methods. The industrial park is like a girl from aristocratic background. From the beginning, it is dressed in luxurious clothes and has a beautiful scenery. The investment in infrastructure below the ground alone amounts to billions of dollars. Dollar.But people are practical and realistic. When foreign businessmen took a look at the two different development zones in Suzhou, they came to a very clear conclusion: Although the prospect of the Singapore model by the Jinji Lake is limitless, the progress of infrastructure seems to be too slow. Wait until the construction here takes shape. I don't know what year and month; although the high-tech zone at the foot of the Lion Mountain by Taihu Lake looks a bit rustic, you only need to negotiate 10% here, and you can do it immediately, and it will be effective in the past. "We are an enterprise, and the enterprise pays attention to the maximum benefit and the fastest speed." So foreign businessmen have invested in Wang Jinhua and the high-tech zone. In August 1997, Goh Chok Tong, who was the Prime Minister of Singapore at the time, came to Suzhou again. Seeing that the vast land of Jinji Lake was still so deserted, he quietly looked at the bustling high-tech zone on the side of Lion Rock. At the press conference held for him by the leaders of Suzhou City, he implicitly pointed out for the first time: Suzhou Industrial Park is facing fierce competition, and this competitor is the Suzhou High-tech Zone on the other wing. In December 1997, a Singaporean politician came to Suzhou and also publicly criticized the competition between the Suzhou High-tech Zone and the Industrial Park. His words could not hide his disappointment and dissatisfaction.During this period, Singapore also asked Suzhou to suspend the introduction of foreign investment in the new area for 5 years, but was rejected. "At that time, the Suzhou High-tech Zone developed relatively fast, while the industrial park developed relatively slowly. There are objective reasons for this. The industrial park was originally a depression, and the land was filled up, so the land price was expensive and the investment cost was also high. This is to a certain extent. It affected the results of investment promotion. In addition to the Asian financial crisis in the following year and the lack of strength of Singaporean investors, the Suzhou Industrial Park suffered relatively large losses. In this way, Singaporeans such as Lee Kuan Yew felt pressured and impatient.” Suzhou people told me . Here comes Liang Baohua, a "veteran cadre in Suzhou" who was born in the Fudan Journalism Department. From 1968 to 1975, he worked in Taicang County under Suzhou City.After working in the Provincial Party Committee, Liang Baohua served as Secretary-General of the Standing Committee for many years, and was evaluated as good at handling all aspects of relations. After he became secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, the first guest he received was the president of Emerson Electric Company in the United States. At that time, the president was preparing to postpone the construction of his largest overseas project in the industrial park.During the conversation with Liang Baohua, he deeply felt the strong pro-business atmosphere, so he immediately changed his decision. Instead of delaying the investment, he accelerated the process.This "meeting ceremony" by Liang Baohua made Singaporeans such as Lee Kuan Yew very happy. Liang Baohua, the new secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, is really unusual. After taking office, he first went to the park to visit Lin Liangchang, president of Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Co., Ltd., and other Singaporean friends, and listened carefully to their opinions and suggestions.Half a month later, Liang Baohua invited Chen Huanyou, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, to bring the heads of relevant departments of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government to the park to work on site to solve some problems in development and investment promotion. "The Provincial Party Committee and the Municipal Party Committee attach great importance to it, and our work is much smoother than before!" President Lin Liangchang said to Liang Baohua with satisfaction.What moved Lin Liangchang and other Singaporean friends in particular was that in November of this year, Liang Baohua personally led a 6-member investment promotion team to Canada and the United States to attract investment.It was the cold winter and it was snowing heavily. Liang Baohua and others were each carrying a suitcase, looking like ordinary travelers.But they have no leisure to go anywhere to go sightseeing or shopping for entertainment, and the suitcases are full of materials introducing Suzhou.Liang Baohua and his colleagues traveled day and night, non-stop, visited more than 20 multinational companies in 9 cities in 12 days, held several investment briefings, and met with more than 100 businessmen from the United States and Canada.Although very tired, he cheered up and introduced the investment situation in Suzhou to the merchants over and over again.For the needs of merchants, those who can make a decision will be made immediately, and those that cannot be finalized for the time being, promise to try our best to meet them.In those days, the six people were exhausted, but the harvest was very rich.They signed or initialed more than 10 investment agreements with businessmen from the two countries.As soon as they returned to Suzhou, Solectron and Andrew, an international multinational company, informed them to increase their respective investment in Suzhou projects, totaling 80 million US dollars.In the following months, more than 10 projects that were negotiated were basically settled in Suzhou Industrial Park. With the hard work of the municipal Party committee secretary, all the previous dissatisfaction of Singaporeans disappeared.However, the impact of the Asian financial crisis on some small countries with a high degree of openness that relies on the globalized economy has far exceeded their expectations. Singaporeans, who have a strong sense of crisis and are extremely smart, have begun to recognize their own crisis from the other side— - China is an emerging economic entity, and with the diligence and wisdom of Suzhou people, it will not take long to cooperate with China, and the "students" will definitely surpass the "teachers".what to do?The Singaporeans began to make new calculations—the Suzhou Industrial Park let the Chinese be the major shareholders, and it was safer for them to bear the risks.Another voice from Singapore from the international business community is: when building an industrial park, Suzhou will have another high-tech zone of its own. If a city has two development zones, and one is "the son of its own". , then the other son born to the "second wife" will definitely look at it differently.Therefore, the new side hopes that Suzhou will not let the high-tech zone continue to work, and make every effort to build the industrial park well. The Singaporeans thought so, so they tried to negotiate a share exchange with the Chinese side. Mayor Chen Deming answered the above-mentioned questions raised by reporters at a press conference, pointing out: Suzhou High-tech Zone has been developed for some time, and it is a national-level development zone approved by the Chinese government. It is unrealistic to close or limit its development.Therefore, China and New Zealand must find a good way to allow the industrial park and the high-tech zone to survive and develop at the same time.Chen Deming also used "husband and wife" to describe the cooperative relationship between China and New Zealand. He believed that it is inevitable for a couple to have quarrels occasionally after they have been married for five years.He said that the cooperation between China and New Zealand will never be affected by small problems, and the two sides "will definitely continue to cooperate for a long time." However, after all, the "husband and wife" had quarreled and hurt each other a little bit.What's next?Suzhou Industrial Park is facing another huge test.The Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government must come up with their opinions, otherwise, how will Comrade Jiang Zemin's instructions to build the park be implemented? "What is the most important thing? This is not only the Suzhou Industrial Park itself. Its success or failure is also related to the comprehensive cooperation and friendly relations between China and New Zealand. At the same time, it will also have an impact on China's opening up and international relations. We We must deal with it seriously and come up with practical and feasible countermeasures.” At the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, Secretary Liang Baohua, Deputy Secretary, Mayor Chen Deming and members of the Standing Committee agreed completely: since the new party put forward such an idea, there must be deep-seated reasons Considering and planning, we should unambiguously and bravely provoke the important task of building an industrial park, and make Suzhou's due contribution to promoting the friendly development of Sino-New Zealand relations. "Both parks are indispensable for the development of Suzhou. Especially the industrial park is the top priority of Suzhou's economic development and the top priority of the cooperation between China and Singapore. In this way, to There is only one choice for us in Suzhou: concentrate on building a good industrial park, and focus on attracting investment and management in the industrial park." The municipal party committee and the municipal government made such a decision. Round after round of goodwill negotiations between "husband and wife". The end of June 1999 was a particularly hot period.The Suzhou Chinese Work Negotiation Team headed by Liang Baohua, Secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee, Chen Deming, Mayor Chen Deming, and Xie Jiabin, Director of the Suzhou Industrial Park Management Committee, visited Singapore. The working negotiation team of both parties held friendly and candid negotiations on the development of Suzhou Industrial Park and the exchange of equity. "China and Singapore are 'husband and wife' after all. As the saying goes: a couple of days is a hundred days of kindness, and the kindness of a 'husband and wife' in the past five years is as deep as the sea!" Liang Baohua and Xu Wenyuan said in a friendly way at the meeting between China and New Zealand Said. "Yes, the construction of Suzhou Industrial Park embodies the painstaking efforts and friendship of the leaders of the two countries. We can only build it better and not let it lose a single hair." "Yes, no matter what, on the issue of the Suzhou Industrial Park, there are not only our common interests, but also the sincere friendship between the leaders and peoples of the two countries." "Mayor Chen, your English is as good as the former Mayor Zhang Xinsheng! This makes us believe that our park will have better business opportunities and development prospects in the future." The Singaporean host speaks English very fluently Mayor Chen Deming greatly appreciated that the language barrier seemed to make them feel more at ease.Negotiations have also become smoother. On the 28th, Liang Baohua, on behalf of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government of China, authorized Chen Deming as the mayor of Suzhou, Xie Jiabin as the director of the Suzhou Industrial Park Management Committee, Xu Wenyuan, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore, Lim Zian, the vice chairman of the Suzhou Industrial Park Development Consortium of Singapore, and China Lin Liangchang, President of New Suzhou Industrial Park Development Co., Ltd., signed the "Memorandum of Understanding on Matters Concerning the Development of Suzhou Industrial Park". This memorandum recorded several points of consensus between China and New Zealand: 1. The two sides reviewed the agreement reached by the two governments on the joint development of the Suzhou Industrial Park.The purpose of developing and constructing Suzhou Industrial Park is to develop friendly relations between China and New Zealand, expand economic and technological cooperation, enhance the deep friendship between the two peoples, and build a high-tech-led, modern industry-based, tertiary industry in Suzhou. It is a modern industrial park with a certain scale supporting social public welfare undertakings.In the process of development and construction, the park will independently and selectively learn from Singapore's experience in economy and public administration in accordance with China's national conditions. 2. The working groups of both parties reviewed the development and construction process of Suzhou Industrial Park.In the past five years, Suzhou Industrial Park has made remarkable achievements, achieved the first phase of development goals, and become one of the fastest growing and most competitive development zones in China; at the same time, learning from Singapore in Positive results have also been achieved in terms of economic and public administration experience in facilitating the construction of industrial parks.The two sides believe that the development and construction of Suzhou Industrial Park has always been highly valued and strongly supported by the leaders of China and Singapore; 3. The overall planning of the Suzhou Industrial Park project is 70 square kilometers, and the development will be carried out in stages. It will take many years to complete the comprehensive development.The two sides agreed that Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Co., Ltd. (CSSD) will focus on the development of the first phase of 8 square kilometers, with a view to completing the development work as much as possible before January 1, 2001, so that it can be used as other land for the development of 70 square kilometers With the assistance of the Singapore Economic Development Bureau, CSSD will complete the first phase of investment promotion for the remaining industrial land (about 70 hectares) in the 8 square kilometers. 4. The working groups of the two sides conducted consultations on relevant issues in the foreign investment promotion of Suzhou Industrial Park and Suzhou New District, and agreed that Suzhou Industrial Park is the largest cooperation project between the governments of China and New Zealand, and it is the top priority of Sino-Singapore economic and technological cooperation .The two parties stated that they will continue to take all possible positive measures to promote the accelerated development of Suzhou Industrial Park.The Suzhou Municipal Government and the Suzhou Industrial Park Management Committee will give priority to recommending all suitable projects to the park; the mayor of Suzhou will regularly host meetings to avoid disorderly competition between the two districts for a project and to avoid confusion for investors.The Suzhou Municipal Government, Suzhou Industrial Park Management Committee and CSSD will further strengthen cooperation and strive to attract investment for Suzhou Industrial Park; actively encourage investors to choose to invest in Suzhou Industrial Park first, and provide investors with the most competitive investment environment.The Suzhou Municipal Government will reiterate to the outside world that it will continue to fully support the priority status of Suzhou Industrial Park. 5. The Suzhou Municipal Government actively encourages and supports Suzhou New District to participate in the development and construction of the park project, and strives to promote the two districts to become good partners; the Suzhou Municipal Government will take effective measures to actively encourage the population of the ancient urban area to migrate to the park to promote the accelerated development of the park and increasingly prosperous.The initial goal is to move 20,000 people into the park. 6. An important task for the park to learn from Singapore's experience is to train a group of Chinese management personnel to effectively assume the management responsibility for CSSD as soon as possible.After reviewing the efforts made in this area, the two sides agreed that the Chinese administrators would be fully capable of assuming the management responsibilities of CSSD on January 1, 2001. 7. In view of this, the two parties agreed that CSSD will adjust the shareholding ratio of China and Singapore from January 1, 2001, that is, the equity of the Chinese consortium will be adjusted from the current 35% to 65% at that time, and the equity of the Singapore consortium will be adjusted from the current 65% of the adjustment to 35% at that time.At the same time, the major shareholder responsibility for the development of the entire Suzhou Industrial Park will be handed over to the Chinese side. 8. The two sides agreed to further accelerate the pace of learning from Singapore's experience.The current reference work will focus on: (1) Accelerate the training of Chinese management personnel; (2) Introduce the experience of Singapore Housing Development Board in public housing and town management and the experience of Jurong Town Authority in industrial park management ; (3) Introduce Singapore's experience in the promotion and development of information technology. 9. According to the overall planning of Suzhou Industrial Park and the principle of phased implementation and rolling development, CSSD will focus on completing the development and construction of the first phase of 8 square kilometers, and will actively implement rolling development in accordance with the requirements of the overall planning for the development of the park. For forward development, the infrastructure should be developed and constructed in a moderately advanced manner, so as to ensure that the development and construction of the park will advance smoothly according to the established goals. ... The "Memorandum of Understanding" was naturally sent to Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore.The "Father of Singapore" is a very face-conscious person. He values ​​the development of the relationship between China and Singapore more than his own life. He once vowed to use all his political capital to support the Suzhou Industrial Park in the early stages of its construction. On the one hand, he was considering Singapore's international interests, and at the same time, he sincerely wanted to contribute to the cause of China's reform and opening up led by Deng Xiaoping.After five years of painstaking efforts, Lee Kuan Yew's state of mind can be imagined now that he has to entrust the care of his "son" to others. "Although we are no longer the major shareholder, I still hope that the park can develop healthily and rapidly, so I suggest that you must find an outstanding president with international economic management capabilities for CSSD, who can recruit globally." Lee Kuan Yew said to Liang Baohua and Chen Deming said, and added a sentence at the end, "a high degree of education is required, and a good foreign language is required." It is difficult for others to understand Lee Kuan Yew's affection for Suzhou Industrial Park. After the death of Deng Xiaoping in 1997, Lee Kuan Yew seemed to have a stronger sense of responsibility in his heart: he hoped to live up to the lofty evaluation of "Deng Gong" on Singapore through the construction of Suzhou Industrial Park.Therefore, when the Suzhou Industrial Park experienced setbacks in attracting investment and operating losses for a period of time, Lee Kuan Yew could not help but have a grudge against Wang Jinhua from the Suzhou High-tech Zone. "This man is too powerful. As long as he is in Suzhou, our park construction will be affected." Lee Kuan Yew said privately to Chen Huanyou, then Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee. Secretary Chen smiled and said, "How about transferring this person to your industrial park?" Lee Kuan Yew was stunned for a moment, staring at the secretary of the provincial party committee, not understanding his real intention. "It's true, senior, do you think it's okay?" The secretary of the provincial party committee repeated. "really?" "really!" Lee Kuan Yew laughed heartily this time. "We want to find the most capable person for the park! Find it in Suzhou!" A few days ago, Lee Kuan Yew said this at a foreign press conference. some dissatisfaction.The reporters found that after this fight, Li Zizheng's attitude changed completely, and he was full of gratitude to Suzhou people.What surprised and surprised the outside world in particular was that at the end of 1999, Lee Kuan Yew finally became a family with his old rival Wang Jinhua, and the two held hands tightly together... After laughing heartily for a while, Lee Kuan Yew said to Wang Jinhua: "From now on, you will be a member of my park, so I can rest assured." Wang Jinhua said: "Thank you, Senior Minister Li, for your attention. I will do my best to build the park well." A small dispute between China and New Zealand for cooperation has finally turned hostility into friendship so far.After the storm, a colorful rainbow reappears on the banks of Jinji Lake...