Suzhou News

1st Ever Kunshan Athlete to Win Olympic Medal Takes Bronze in Hammer Throw

Zhao Jie won her medal with a throw of 74.27 metres in the Paris Games on 6 August. As a schoolchild, when her academic grades fell behind, her parents asked her to stop her sports training, but she still...

90 American Teachers & Students Join Exchange Camp at Duke Kunshan University

The Collegiate Immersion Bootcamp for eight American universities, including Duke University, Brigham Young University and Columbia University, is to carry out a variety of visits and exchanges in Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou and elsewhere. Full story (in Chinese) via this...

Airportless Suzhou gets IATA Airport Code for “Virtual” Flights to/from Shanghai

A year on from the launch of the the Suzhou City Terminal for Shanghai’s two main airports, Suzhou Industrial Park recently took to X to announce the designation of SZO as its airport code by the International Air Transport...

Entire Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou High Speed Line Complete; Static Tests to Begin

On 30 July, the final section of contact wire was hoisted to the last of 7,237 pillars which had been assembled in 525 days, over a total length of 591 kilometres. The Line is also known as a Lake...

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