Suzhou is an ancient city on the Yangtze River known for its gardens, stunning architecture and 2500 years of culture, Suzhou is a business or leisure traveler's dream.  Suzhou enjoys a mild and humid climate, with an annual temperature of 15 to 17℃ and an annual rainfall of 1076.2mm. It is easily accessible by water, land and air communications.Talking about Suzhou, people would mention the old saying: "Paradise in Heaven, Suzhou and Hangzhou on earth." The style of Suzhou lies in "Softness", like the tone of Wu dialect, which also sums up the character in feminine beauty, tenderness, serenity, subtlety and elegance.Today's Suzhou is an open city with developed economy and frequent exchanges with the outside world. It has been officially declared as part of the coastal economic open zone of the Yangtze River Delta. Comprehensive industrial system has taken shape, and Suzhou has seen tremendous expansion in foreign trade and international economic co-operation, establishing friendship with cities in Italy, Canada, Japan and the United States.
Situated at the center of Suzhou, Suzhou International Conference Centre becomes the city's symbolic architectural complex. Blending the delicacy, elegancy, solemnity and decency of water land at the south of Yangtze River and embodying the strong spirit of times and future viewpoint. It occupies about 68000sq.m of land with its 100000 sq.m of building area and is reputed as a large-scale entity to serve conference, exhibition, show, business, travel and vacation.
Suzhou Central Hotel has 384 rooms and various style state suites, with 682 beds available, 18 restaurants with 2000 seats, 54 meeting halls and 1000sq.m exhibition.
Great Hall of Suzhou is the largest meeting space in Suzhou. Its audience hall can accommodate 1191 people.
The central square can be used to organize performances, product shows, consulting, advertising, celebrations, large-scale cultural and sports activities and provides a number of large parking spaces.
Since opening, it has held a number of major conferences and exhibitions. Such as "8th APEC Finance Ministers Meeting", "China's Economic Growth Forum", " “28th World Heritage Conference", "28th General Assembly of the international Council of Scientific Unions ", "2nd Global Conference of AFHC" and other important conferences. |
