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Singaporean officials publicly complained in 1997 that Suzhou's city government was promoting the Suzhou New District more than the Suzhou Industrial Park, noting that more billboards in the city advertised the SND than the SIP.[4] Singaporean officials tried to get the Suzhou government to suspend advertising for the SND for five years, but Suzhou city officials refused.[5] As part of their complaint, Lee Kuan Yew threatened that Singapore may "bow out" of the project.[4] The Singaporean government would later reduce its stake to just 35% in 1999, in an effort to incentivize the local government to support the SIP.[3][4][5] As part of their partial pullout, Singapore recalled all but three of its civil servants involved in the project,[4] and sold power and water treatment plants to their Chinese partners.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou_Industrial_Park
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou_Industrial_Park

