On July 24, a signing ceremony was held for the strategic cooperation between the Yangtze Metallurgical Industrial Park (YMIP) in Zhangjiagang and the Materials Academy of Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI).
Zhangjiagang Port achieved a cargo throughput of 122.98 million metric tons and handled over 559,000 standard containers.
On July 18, Weng Yuren, vice-mayor of Zhangjiagang, a county-level city in Suzhou, East China’s Jiangsu province, met with Markus Kloke, chief executive officer of German precision parts manufacturer E. Winkemann, to discuss business cooperation.
On July 16, an event marking the agreement signing of or start of construction or production on 36 projects was held in Zhangjiagang High-Tech Development Zone. The groundbreaking ceremony for the intelligent equipment headquarters of Huashijie Environment Technology Co Ltd was also held.
The groundbreaking ceremony for Quaker Houghton's 600-million-yuan ($82.75-million) advanced industrial process fluids project took place in the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone on July 10.
Construction on Suzhou's fourth Sam's Club began on July 5 in Yangshe town, Zhangjiagang.
Kecai New Energy Technology held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new smart equipment components project on June 19 in Zhangjiagang, Suzhou.
A cargo ship carrying three quay container cranes, overseen by the Zhangjiagang maritime bureau, recently departed from Zhangjiagang for Malaysia and Indonesia.