Soon afterwards Singapore premier Lee Kuan Yew visited the city and agreed to cooperate in the development of another industrial zone, to the east of the city. This led to the establishment, in 1994, of Suzhou Industrial Park, in the form of an official joint venture between China and Singapore.
緊接著，前任新加坡總理李光耀來訪，看中了城東地區，又在九四年正式成立具有中星兩國「國際合作」規格的「蘇州工業園區」。