A vibrant hub for bilateral exchanges blooms in Suzhou

Given Singapore's involvement in the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), it comes as no surprise that the Southeast Asian country would have one of their most reputable universities located within the park.

But according to Hui Kwok Leong, the associate director of the National University of Singapore (NUS), the institute's presence in SIP is in no way a token one.

Occupying 20,000 square meters in the industrial park, the National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI) is the first research and education establishment in the zone that is managed by a top Asian university. NUS was ranked first in the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings which was released in June.