The Blue Marlin venues often come with a pool table, TVs that provide coverage of most major sporting events, and a resident band plays nightly. The amply stocked bar serves Carlsberg, Tiger, San Miguel and Erdinger on draught, a wide range of spirits, and a reasonable selection of wines. Drinking at the Blue Marlin becomes particularly attractive between the hours of 4 and 7 p.m., when prices are halved on all drinks. After work drinkers, keen to take advantage of the happy hour, will be particularly enticed by the Long Island Iced Tea at only 24RMB and the regular draught beers that come in at 14RMB.

Website:

Adresses:
Shanghai
Blue Marlin Green City :
No. 689 Lan Tian Rd.
Green City Jinqiao Pudong Shanghai (Opposite of Decathlon)
Tel : 021-50309676

Nanjing
1) Blue Marlin 1912 :
No. 8 Chang Jiang Hou Jie, 1912, Xuanwu District, Nanjing
Tel: 025-84537376
2) Blue Marlin Jiangning :
No.200 Li Yuan Road (M), Jiangning District, Nanjing
Tel : 025-52074027

Suzhou
1) Blue Marlin SND :
No. 98 Shi Shan Road, SGV Plaza, SND, Suzhou
Tel : 0512-68087316
2) Blue Marlin SIP :
No. 168 Xing Hai Street, SIP, Suzhou
Tel : 0512-62889676
3) Xuzhou
Blue Marlin Xiao Nan Hu :
Block 26 Xiao Nan Hu Plaza, Xuzhou
Tel : 0516-83886722

i-You was developed by an international team of top-class computer scientists, linguists and Chinese communications experts. It allows you to communicate easily with Chinese speakers across the language barrier. The app can be used in practically every daily situation such as ordering a taxi, asking for directions, chitchatting, shopping and even bargaining for a good price. It also covers many emergency situation. In cases where you do not know how to name or describe an object, a building, some Chinese characters or a dish, you can even use a photo in combination with a sentence.

The combination of dialogues for many situations, voice output and Pinyin transliteration can also help in learning basic Chinese.

Fore more information: http://www.yocoy.com/i-You/

CHENGDU :

Shuang Lin Animal Hospital - 四川省成都双林动物医院

Address: 41-1, 3rd East Section, Yihuan Lu, Chengdu
成都市成华区一环路东三段41号附1号

Tel: 028-84324027

Huaxi Veterinary Hospital – 华西动物医院

Address: 21 Xiaotian Beixiang, Chengdu
成都市小天北巷21号

Tel: 028-85590161

CHONGQING:

Chongqing Youhao Pet Hospital – 重庆友好宠物医院

Address: 2F, 6 Hongshi Lu, Jiangbei District, Chongqing
重庆市江北区红石路6号二楼

Tel: 023-67636404

Chongqing Mingwang Pet Hospital – 重庆名望宠物医院

Address: 47 Tuanjie Lu, Yangjiaping, Chongqing
重庆市杨家坪团结路47号

Tel: 023-66090226

Chongqing Pet Hospital – 重庆宠物医院

Address: 111 Shangqingsi Lu, Chongqing
重庆市上清寺路111号

Tel: 023-63635673

HANGZHOU:

Angel Animal Clinic

Address: 59 Gaoji Lu, Hangzhou - 杭州市高技路59号

Tel: 0571 8891 4632

SUZHOU:

Suzhou Caolangfen Pet Hospital – 苏州曹浪峰宠物医院

Address: 26 Baita Donglu, Suzhou
苏州市白塔东路26号

Tel: 0512-67201781

Suzhou Kala Pet Hospital – 苏州卡拉宠物医院

Address: 44 Dong Dajie, Suzhou
苏州市东大街44号

Tel: 0512-65197769

Suzhou Caixiang Pet Hospital – 苏州市彩香宠物门诊

Address: 891 Ganjiang Xilu, Suzhou
苏州市干将西路891号

Tel: 0512-68284169

NANJING:

Nanjing Aiqi Pet Service Co. Ltd. – 南京爱琪宠物服务有限公司

Address: 598 Daming Lu, Nanjing
南京大明路598号

Tel: 025-86985055

XI’AN:

Xi’an ChaoYue Dog Store - 西安超越犬舍

Address: Wenjing Lu, Xi’an
西安市文景路

Tel: 029-81983288

Baby Pet Club – 贝贝宠物俱乐部

Address: 121 Hanguang Lu Nanduan, Xi’an
西安市含光路121号

Tel: 029 88910511

WUXI:

Wuxi Oupai Pet Hospital – 无锡欧派宠物医院

Address: 105 Changjiang Beilu, New District, Wuxi
无锡市新区长江北路105号

Tel: 0510-82203933

TIANJIN:

The Affiliated Animal Hospital of Tianjing University of Agriculutre – 天津农学院附属动物医院

Address: Jinjing Lu, Xiqing District, Tianjin

Tel: 022-23781292

Haduoli Pet Hospital – 哈多利宠物医院

Address: 201 Yingshui Dao, Nankai District, Tianjin
南开区迎水道201号久华里1楼

Tel: 022-23727238

Xiaokang Pet Hospital – 笑康宠物医院

Address: 69 Rongan Dajie, Heping District, Tianjin
天津和平区荣安大街69号

Tel: 022-27212781

DALIAN:

Dalian Changsheng Pet hospital – 大连长生动物医院

Address: Wansui Jie, Shahekou District, Dalian
大连沙河口区万岁街

Tel: 0411 84549303

Shidao Jie Pet Hospital – 石道街宠物医院

Address: Dongbei Lu, Xigang District, Dalian
大连市西岗区东北路

Tel: 0411 82488230

Dalian Dongri Animal Hospital – 大连东日动物医院

Address: Huabei Lu, Shahekou District, Dalian
大连市华北路206号

Tel: 0411 86645634

CHANGSHA:

Honeypet Hospital – 爱心宠物医院

Address: 7 Comprehensive Building (Zong He Lou), Xipai Building (Xipai Lou), Tianxin District, Changsha
长沙市天心区西牌楼街7号

Tel: 13507416893,13637315934

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The app is made to help you navigate through a city by listing its key locations and allowing you to get there comfortably. You just choose a location and show its name and address, along with an instructional phrase to a local taxi driver.

The app also features dialogue options for communicating with locals in their language: All phrases are written in Chinese and can be pronounced via Text-To-Speech Synthesis. Some phrases also feature likely answer options that the dialogue partners may choose as a reply. An English-Chinese dictionary containing more than 12,000 words can be used to fill gaps in some phrases.

http://www.yocoy.com/yocoy/en/taxi-book_index.php

The Taxi-Book app is a joint development by Taxi-Book and Yocoy who have combined their respective expertises in key areas to bring users this handy tool. This installment features Tianjin which is a metropolis in North China and one of the five national central cities. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality (one of four), and is under direct administration of the central
government. More Chinese cities are soon to follow.

• Locations: More than 410 locations divided into 10 categories are featured.

• Locations come with detailed information like English and Chinese name, address, phone number, and GPS coordinates.

• View locations on Maps and find nearby places easily (requires online connectivity). You can also add your own locations, enter and save their data if you have discovered a new place that is not covered in the app.

• Once you’ve chosen a location, press the Taxi-Card button to bring up a simple yet effective page that allows you to tell a taxi driver clearly where you want to go. Show the page to the driver and shake the phone to make it pronounce the phrase with your desired destination.

• Taxi-Card: Choose between different color styles to customize the page to your liking.

• Dialogues: Special dialogues for use in a taxi situation like “Turn on the meter, please” or “How long will the ride take approximately?”

• Basic Phrases: For everyday situations to say things like “Hello”, “Thank you”, tell others your name or ask where the restrooms are.

• Favourites: Pick your favourite locations out of all the locations and add them to your favourites list for quick and easy access.

The app is made to help you navigate through a city by listing its key locations and allowing you to get there comfortably. You just choose a location and show its name and address, along with an instructional phrase to a local taxi driver.

Link to the iTunes Store: http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/suzhou/id427780746?mt=8
(Or easier: Type “Suzhou” in the iTunes Store)

The app also features dialogue options for communicating with locals in their language: All phrases are written in Chinese and can be pronounced via Text-To-Speech Synthesis. Some phrases also feature likely answer options that the dialogue partners may choose as a reply. An English-Chinese dictionary containing more than 12,000 words can be used to fill gaps in some phrases.

The Taxi-Book app is a joint development by Taxi-Book and Yocoy who have combined their respective expertises in key areas to bring users this handy tool. This installment features Chongqing, a major city in southwestern mainland China with a population of 31 million. More Chinese cities are soon to follow.

• Locations: More than 330 locations divided into 10 categories are featured.

• Locations come with detailed information like English and Chinese name, address, phone number, and GPS coordinates.

• View locations on Maps and find nearby places easily (requires online connectivity). You can also add your own locations, enter and save their data if you have discovered a new place that is not covered in the app.

• Once you’ve chosen a location, press the Taxi-Card button to bring up a simple yet effective page that allows you to tell a taxi driver clearly where you want to go. Show the page to the driver and shake the phone to make it pronounce the phrase with your desired destination.

• Taxi-Card: Choose between different color styles to customize the page to your liking.

• Dialogues: Special dialogues for use in a taxi situation like “Turn on the meter, please” or “How long will the ride take approximately?”

• Basic Phrases: For everyday situations to say things like “Hello”, “Thank you”, tell others your name or ask where the restrooms are.

• Favourites: Pick your favourite locations out of all the locations and add them to your favourites list for quick and easy access.

Source: Suzhou New District

Introduction

Suzhou New District (Suzhou ND), formerly Suzhou National New and Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, was built in 1990 in the western part of Suzhou Jiangsu and renamed Suzhou ND in 1993. The park lies only 12 km from downtown. Its land area currently stands at 258 km². The Suzhou New District Export Processing Zone was approved for development in the zone in April with a planned area of 2.7 km².

It is only 90 km from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and 130 km from Shanghai Pudong International Airport. Suzhou is located 100 km from Shanghai Port, China’s most important deep-water port. It is 90 km, 70 km and 60 km respectively from the three main port areas of Suzhou Port, namely Zhangjiagang Port, Taichang Port and Changshu Port. The Grand Canal, Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, 312 State Highway and Suzhou-Jiaxing-Hangzhou run through the district. The Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway will shorten the driving time from Shanghai to Suzhou to 20 minutes after its completion in 2010.

Investment Climate

There are over 20 state and province-level development zones in Suzhou. Suzhou ND is viewed by some Singaporeans as a direct rival to China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (Suzhou IP), as the latter was co-developed by the Chinese and Singaporeans. In fact, the competition between different development zones will force the zones to maintain their competitiveness so as to attract foreign investments.

Having undergone 15 years of development, Suzhou ND has grown into the fourth largest state-level high-tech park in China in terms of value-added industrial output in 2007. It accounted for 9% of Suzhou’s GDP which was RMB 52 billion in 2007, an increase of 11% over the previous year, while the industrial output climbed 11% to RMB 165.2 billion, making up 8.7% of the city’s total. The foreign trade value amounted to US$42 billion, accounting for 19.7% of the city’s total.  Exports hit US$25.9 billion by the end of 2007.

Its major industries consist of IT, optical-machinery-electrical integration, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, and auto parts manufacturing industries. About 360 high-tech enterprises have located there. These firms have in total accounted for RMB 90.7 billion gross industrial output, contributing 54.2% of the park’s total.

More than 100 software developers have established themselves in Suzhou ND, generating sales revenue of RMB 8 billion. The BPO sector has generated RMB 4.5 billion in revenue. In addition, the auto parts manufacturing sector aims to achieve an industrial output of RMB 15-18 billion by 2010.

By the end of 2007, Suzhou ND had attracted a total of US$11.9 billion contracted FDI. The utilized FDI amounted 6.35 billion. The utilized FDI stood at US$2.1 billion in 2007 alone. It reflected a remarkably high concentration of Japanese investment, with FDI from Japan exceeding US$5 billion, accounting for 43% of the park’s total.

By the end of 2007, 1500 foreign enterprises had set up business in the park, including 53 Fortune 500 enterprises. In terms of investment breakdown, about 45% of investments fall into the IT industry and 30% into the precision mechanical industry. The major investors include Logitech from Switzerland, Asus and Acer from Taiwan, Canon and Seiko from Japan and Motorola and Timken from the U.S.,.

Investment Costs

Operating Costs

Land Costs

Source: Jiangsu Provincial Department of Land & Resources

Transportation Costs

Waterway Freight Costs (US$/20′GP/40′GP/40′HQ)

Source: Shipping China (As of Sep 28, 2008)

Railway Freight Costs (RMB/kg)

Source: Suzhou Railway Station (2008)

Utility Costs

Source: Suzhou Municipal Government

Labor costs

Source: Suzhou Labor and Social Securities Department (2006)

Winning Edge

1. Booming private economy in the park
2. High concentration of Japanese enterprises

Limitations

1. Fierce competition from Suzhou Industrial Park, as well as from other parks in Suzhou and neighboring cities
2. High labor and land costs

The Administration Committee

1. Address: Yunhe Rd. 8, Suzhou New District, Jiangsu
2. Tel: 86-512-68251888
3. Fax: 86-512-6825 1579
4. Website: http://www.snd.gov.cn/ , epz.snd.gov.cn

History

The Bookworm was born about five years ago in humble surroundings.

Its founder, Alexandra Pearson, was running a one-woman outfit in a modest courtyard where she not only managed a small library and put on low-key events, but also handled the restaurant side of things herself. The library had a meagre collection of 2,000 books – mainly biographies and non-fiction – that Alexandra had actually collated for another venture back in 1998…but that’s another story.

One day in 2003, a curious journalist walked in to have a look round and almost immediately became member number 2. He soon fell under The Bookworm’s enchanting spell and found himself lending a hand around the place; planting daisies in the courtyard, reshelving the books as they grew in number. Three years later, that journalist was to become The Bookworm’s Business Partner and Co-owner, and open The Chengdu Bookworm, and then The Suzhou Bookworm the following year. He is none other than Peter Goff, and today you’re as likely to find him writing the quirky questions for Chengdu’s quiz night as moderating a talk by a celebrated scribe in Suzhou.

The Beijing Bookworm still retains its original charm even though it has grown and now dwells in a much bigger habitat. It now has over 2500 members, with Chengdu at 800 and Suzhou at a rapidly growing 300. The Bookworm on The Bridge (Suzhou) and The Bookworm at The Yin Yang Centre (Beijing) have also recently opened their doors, so keep an eye on the site for details of all our new locations.Click on the links below to go the websites of the Chengdu and Suzhou Bookworms.

Drink And food

Wine Club

On the third Thursday of each month, you’ll find a cluster of people at The Bookworm admiring legs, inhaling bouquets, and gargling with various hues of ruby. Of course, some of them will be just plain old drinking the wine. The highly revered connoisseurs from ASC Fine Wines will talk you through each wine and its merits, and teach you to recognise grapes, years and châteaux. Very informative and the perfect opportunity to restock your cellar.

Dining

The Bookworm continues to attract gastronomes and casual diners alike. Our no-nonsense menu is tasty and wholesome, freshly prepared to your liking by our team of expert chefs. Sumptuous three-course meals, creative salads, tempting sandwiches, hearty pasta dishes, seasonal specials, Grandmother’s secret recipes, Chef’s recommendations, seductive sweets…is your mouth watering yet?

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Wining

Reading is thirsty work and we don’t want you getting parched among the parchments. The Bookworm bar staff are on hand to proffer your desired elixir as you continue turning the pages. Frothy cappuccino, strong espresso, refreshing tea, multicoloured cocktails, cold beer, fruity shakes, full-bodied reds, crisp whites, chilled bubbles for those unexpected celebrations…now, what can we get you?

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Lending Library

Membership Details
New Members:
Individual 6-month membership: 200RMB
Individual 1-year membership: 300RMB
Family 1-year membership: 500RMB

Membership Extensions:
Individual 6-month membership : 150RMB
Individual 1-year membership: 250RMB
Family 1-year membership: 500RMB

Borrowing Terms:
Individual members: Two books for up to two weeks
Family members: Up to six books for two weeks