Suzhou is located in the south-east part of Jiangsu Province. It is next to Shanghai on the east, connects to Zhejiang on the south, embraces Taihu Lake on the west, and lies against Yangtze River on the north. It is one of the important key cities in Yangtze River Delta, and a famous and important tourist city in China for historic and cultural glamour. Suzhou has enjoyed a history of 2509 years; its total territory is 8,488 km2; and it has a population of 6,073,100. For the downtown area, it covers 1,650 km2, and the total population is 2,251,000. In 1993, Suzhou was ratified by the State Council as a ‘large city’. Currently, the whole city has 487 sites of city-level, 101 sites of provincial-level and 15 sites of national level cultural heritage protection entities, as well as 9 sites of World Culture Heritage entities. It has a profound cultural background, and has been credited as ‘A Town of Fish and Rice’, and the ‘Earthly Paradise’. With the rapid industrial and economic development, Suzhou and Shanghai have become leaders of economic growth in Yangtze River Delta, and the country as a whole. Suzhou has been one of the cities in China that have the most perfect and outstanding combination of tradition and modern cultures. So far, 102,700 privately owned enterprises, over 13,500 foreign invested enterprises, and 107 out of the Fortune 500 multinational companies have resided in Suzhou. In 2005, the amount of investment introduction in Suzhou ranked number one across the country; the total industrial output value reached RMB 1.21 trillion, which registered a breakthrough in the historic record of RMB 1 trillion, and ranked number two in whole China, only next to Shanghai. Its total amount of import and export value exceeded USD 140 billion, which ranked number three in China; the GDP exceeded RMB 400 billion, which was number four across China. The general local budget income accomplished RMB 31.678 billion, which outperformed Nanjing and Shenzhen for three consecutive years, and ranked number five in whole China. Almost two thirds of the global IT manufacturing enterprises have invested in Yangtze River Delta, which has been an important region with the fastest economic growth in China. Suzhou has become the world’s manufacturing center. In particular, with the boom in electronic information industry, relative businesses like software and photoelectric trades began to congregate in Suzhou. Besides, other industries, such as automobile, household appliances, telecommunication, light industry and plastics, have demonstrated a strong development trend. The manufacturing of more than 80% the products of automobile, household appliance, telecommunication, light industry and plastics businesses is closely associated with molds, which has provided a huge market demand and space of development for the mold industry in Suzhou.
　　The strong industrial development trend in Suzhou, and its position as an important global manufacturing base have led to an urgent need for an international molds town to well support the growth. The manufacturing scale and business integration, as well as the concentration of industrial chain are the trend of market development. One cannot be successful by working alone. So, join the Molds Town now! It will not only help make your business stronger and larger, but also is good for your long-term development. It is an internal need for business growth, and a most critical decision and key step for the healthy development of molding enterprises with long-term investment in Suzhou. Your choice of SND International Molds Town will be another leap forward for you in Suzhou, Shanghai and rest of Yangtze River Delta.
　　SND International Molds Town will incorporate advanced experiences, both home and abroad, to introduce leading management concepts, service methods and talent training, so as to better service the member enterprises.