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"Through the lens of the city of Suzhou, this edited volume presents views on the complex interaction between the central state, market agents, local governments and individuals who have shaped the development of Chinese cities and urban life. Featuring a range of disciplinary perspectives, contributors to this volume have all undertaken research in one municipality - Suzhou- to consider how history and culture has evolved during the modernisation of Chinese cities and the transformation of urban space, as well as shifting rural-urban relations and urban life during the reform era. The volume is underscored by a complex dynamic system consisting of three-interlocked mechanisms through which the central and local state interact: history and culture, social and economic life, and administration and governance. As such, chapters analyse responses both from the state and society as driving forces of local development, with an interplay between tradition and heritage on the one hand and China's economic and social development on the other. Suzhou in Transition will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese and urban studies, as well as urban sociology and geography"--

The thesis is trying to critique and evaluate the production-infrastructure-consumption model that contemporary Suzhou is based on. The model has been set up with the help of reading the scroll Prosperous Suzhou, which, is considered both as a precedent on representation and background of sites. Suzhou is a major city locates in the Yangtze River Delta region. For 2,500 years Suzhou is acting one of the most prosperous city in the wealthiest region of China. Suzhou is one of the greatest canal cities on the world, and it is also called "the Eastern Venice" for its competitive massive networks of canals in the city, used reach 90 kilometers at its peak. Besides, the Grand Canal first built in 609 AD enlarged the wealth of the city. In other words, the city benefits a huge from both infrastructures of the city and the country. Superseding the central Planning politics which was made in in the 1950s, the country had changed her mind to opening up policy and in Suzhou the government followed with planning goals and Objectives and Priority Investment Strategy made good senses in response to China's needs on national level. Suzhou was the first 14 "opening cities" all around China. This great opportunity started a famous economic model called "Suzhou model", a mode of economic development first established in Suzhou in 1990s or called "foreign investment economy". Local government offers a leniency environment to attract oversea capital and provides lands and workforce at a fair low price. In this way, Suzhou had a fast start up and impressive growth in last decades. Although Suzhou shows a strong sense of "Prosperous" both on economic growth data and images she's been kept sending out to the whole world, she also has to face the side effect from the mode that she has chosen. This project is trying to evaluate and critic the contemporary Suzhou under the production-infrastructure-Consumption model by comparing with the economic system and connection shown in the scroll. The method engaging this project will proceed by three phases. The first phase is having a comprehensive reading and analysis of the scroll "Prosperous Suzhou" drawn by Xu Yang, which describes a set of coherent scenes of Suzhou in the middle era of 18th century. From the royal painter's work by the commission from Emperor Qianlong, it's not only a romanticized story for the wealthiest city of China, but also an idealized society definition via "city of heaven". The second phase will have a deeper analysis on the scroll by abstracting the model that the representative drawing is based on, show why and how it convinced the audiences that it is representing the idea of prosperous. Then the last but not least phase will move scope to contemporary situation of Suzhou. By producing a new scroll of the contemporary urban narrative with a similar representative method in scales that "Prosperous Suzhou" had used, show how the city is running in same sites 260 years later and why it can be called "prosperous", or not. The expectation of this book is to produce a critical scroll about contemporary Suzhou as a diagnosis and at the same time sites ready for future therapy.

Intro -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Introduction Singapore-Suzhou Industrial Park 20 Years On: Development and Changes -- No Easy Start -- A Highly Uncommon Origin -- Not Really "Different Dreams" -- Hardware and Software -- Testing Time for Young Singapore Officials -- A Miracle in the Making -- No Mean Feat -- Looking Back and Moving Forward -- Outline of Chapters -- Chapter 1 No Ordinary Industrial Park -- Introduction -- A Highly Unusual Origin -- Some Lessons of Experiences -- Institutionalisation of Bilateral Cooperation -- Chapter 2 Adaptation, Growth and Innovation -- Introduction -- Value in the Singapore Connection -- Growth, Transformation and Upgrading -- Social Development and Social Innovation -- SIP "Going Out" -- Some Observations -- Chapter 3 Tracing the Journey of Growth and Transformation -- Introduction -- SIP since Its Inception -- Industrial Upgrading Pressures -- Towards More Innovative Type of High-tech Industries -- More Service-Oriented Activities -- Transformation Challenges -- Chapter 4 Innovating with New Industries -- Introduction -- SIPAC's Critical Role in Industrial Upgrading -- The Biopharmaceutical Industry -- The Nanotechnology Industry -- The Cloud Computing Industry -- Moving Forward Despite Challenges -- Appendix 1. Incentive Programme for Talent and Business in SIP -- Appendix 2. Innovent Biologics Inc -- Appendix 3. Eli Lilly Suzhou Pharmaceutical Co Ltd -- Appendix 4. Qiagen (Suzhou) Translational Medicine Co Ltd -- Chapter 5 A Distinctive Model of Social Development -- Introduction -- Remarkable Achievements in Social Development -- Development-Oriented Social Policy -- Building good local schools -- Setting up international schools -- Establishing Overseas Chinese Academy Suzhou -- A Good Balance between Liveability and Development -- SIP's neighbourhood centre model.

This paper revisits Singapore's industrial development in Suzhou, China, which has been in operation for more than a decade. We aim to glean insights from this experiment and more importantly, to verify recent claims of it generating political gain and economic capital for Singapore. The flagship project took on an identical framework as the other Singaporean transborder industrialization ventures in the region by adopting Singapore's expertise and reputation for an efficient and stable government and investment environment. These measures were coupled with the combination of local-specific advantages in the region, such as availability of cheaper labour and market access. Singapore's regionalization stratagem is placed under scrutiny in this paper; the ensuing competitive interactions between competitor parks and Singaporean-styled parks have raised questions on the economics of competition and sustaining competitive advantage. This calls into question the value of Singapore's, value-added services and infrastructure.