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Soochow University is located in the ancient town of Suzhou, also called "Paradise on Earth". The university is part of the national "211 Project" and is a "2011 Plan" university. It is also one of the Jiangsu provincial key comprehensive universities. It has grown from the former Soochow University founded in 1900. It now has three major campuses: main campus, Dushu Lake Campus, and the Yangcheng Lake Campus, covering an area of 2,705,000 square meters with a total building area more than 182 million square meters. The university facilitates strong research with materials in almost every area including nearly 4 million books, over 30 million Chinese and foreign periodicals, and more than 1.1 million Chinese and foreign e-books, and 82 Chinese and foreign language databases. Soochow University currently has 26 post-doctoral programs, 24 main discipline doctoral programs, including 167 doctoral programs with different areas of emphasis, one professional doctoral program, 47 main discipline master’s programs, including 244 master’s degrees with different areas of emphasis, 21 professional master’s programs, and 124 undergraduate programs. Today, Soochow University has developed into a comprehensive university with 12 major disciplines: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management science, and art. It has a variety of programs and a strong foundation for students to get the education they need in almost any area. Soochow University has achieved clear results and has received a very positive reputation both at home and abroad.

Program Description:

This program is designed to train the students' listening, speaking, reading and writing in Chinese language. It consists of classes of different levels and students are divided into different classes according to their current Chinese ability. Each class has 10-20 students. The program commences in each February and September. Classes are arranged five days a week, 20 to 24 hours per week in total. Students who attend all the classes and pass the examinations can get a Soochow University Certificate upon completion of the program.

Courses of Chinese Language Programs

Comprehensive Chinese, Chinese Conversation, Chinese Listening Comprehension, Chinese Reading, Chinese Viewing-Listening-Speaking, Extensive Chinese Reading, Reading from Chinese Press, Modern Chinese Phonetics, Chinese Writing, Translation, Calligraphy, Ancient Chinese, Classical Literature, Chinese Grammar, Chinese Folk Custom, Calligraph, etc.

Course load of Chinese language courses

22 hours per week, 4 hours each morning (8:30~11:50), Monday through Friday. Also available are such elective courses as Chinese History, Chinese Calligraphy, Traditional Chinese Painting, Taijiquan (shadow boxing) and Chinese Wushu. The minimum enrollment for each course is 20 students. These courses are taught in the afternoon.

Rooms: Twin-bed room (with washroom, telephone, TV, and air-conditioning)

Food: Three group meals per day, mostly Chinese food.

Program fees:

Tuition fee: US$300/month/person,

Accommodation: US$9/day/person,

Meals: US$6/day/person

Fee for site visits: US$100/person, Miscellaneous fee: US$50 (Airport pick-ups included)

Living expenses for undergraduate scholarships: 800 RMB per person per month

Living expenses for graduate scholarships: 1,100 yuan per person per month

Living expenses for PhD scholarships: 1,400 yuan per person per month

Chinese Student Scholarship living: 800 RMB per person per month (with a graduate degree from the more than 1,100 yuan per person per month)

Ordinary living expenses scholarship student: RMB 1,100 per person per month

Higher Education Scholarship living: 1,400 yuan per person per month

Studying these types of scholarships for one academic year period, the school issued a one-time resettlement allowance 600 yuan; learning period of less than one academic year, the school issued a one-time resettlement subsidy 300 yuan.

Suzhou is located in temperate, subtropical humid monsoon and monsoon climate, four seasons, mild climate and abundant rainfall. The city's low-lying plains of the total area of 55% of net over the water, fertile land, abundant. Mainly rice, wheat, rape, producing cotton, sericulture, fruit, tea products have Biluochun, saury the Yangtze River, Taihu whitebait, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs and so on. Suzhou is a famous land of fish and rice, silk of the House, known as "paradise on earth" and reputation.

Suzhou river network over the region, the urban water network is the center of Jiangnan and the most intensive areas of the river, surrounded by well-known is the high-yielding rice, agricultural development, the "water flooding",   "land of fish and rice" was. Wuhua here Tianbao, outstanding for its ancient times to the prosperity of the developed, focused culture and economy, as "a paradise on earth", known as "silk city (Silk's House)", "garden city" reputation. Because of its bridges and other city characteristics of the water, while the "Oriental Venice", "Oriental water (Oriental Shuicheng)" called. Suzhou has become today's "garden city has," "Garden in the City", mountain, water, city, forest, park, the town as a whole, the perfect combination of classic and modern, this ancient style, the harmonious development of the international metropolis. Have successfully held the 2004 World Heritage Conference. 2006 also held its third National Sports Conference. Both the beauty of Suzhou gardens, landscapes and the win. Temple temples all over urban and rural areas; and relics, and add radiance to each other. be borne in mind that books together to paint and make it famous Chinese and foreign. Yeongam, balance, Xishan Dongting Dongshan,  Yushan, Yushan, etc., are the natural scenery. Ancient town of Zhouzhuang and Suzhou Park, Taihu Lake Paradise modern tourist facilities, such as industry also attracted many visitors at home and abroad. Humble Administrator's Garden Humble Administrator's Garden and Summer Palace in Beijing, Chengde Mountain Resort, also known as the Lingering Garden in Suzhou in China, one of the four classical garden. Is a key national heritage conservation units.

Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden in Suzhou tied for the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing four gardens, gardens in Suzhou existing the longest history of gardens. Concise view of ancient country, not to win, and natural for the United States.

Park Suzhou, one of the four, has been 600 years. The existing classical gardens of Suzhou Pavilion, Taiwan, House, House, Office, Church, Villa, Gallery of the human landscape, but also to Hushan stones, and the highly-acclaimed deep, known as "the Kingdom rockery" of reputation.
Lingering Garden Suzhou Lingering Garden, one of the four famous park. Middle four scenic parks to building space to deal with properly live the highest garden in Suzhou.

Tuition fee: 7500Yuan RMB per semester; Registration fee: 250 Yuan RMB per semester;

Books: About 200YuanRMB per semester