On February 28th, the first tablet of State High-Tech Industrial Garden was awarded to Suzhou New District. That is following the district awarded to be the first IS014000 national demonstrative zone throughout the country.

In addition, 36 environmental friendly enterprises are incubated at Suzhou High-Tech Pioneering Service center and half of them are enterprises run by students returned from abroad. In 2000 the sale of environmental friendly enterprises was RMB460 million. Suzhou New District is the first precedent of China for the establishment of regional IS014000 environmental management system. In the district, enterprises can consciously promote the technology in energy saving and reduction in consumption. The terminal treatment replaced by the control of whole production procedure. 20 enterprises passed through IS014000 environmental management system authentication...