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Changshu Institute of Technology (CIT) is located in Changshu, Suzhou – a national historical and cultural garden city with international flavor. Changshu has a history of more than 3000 years, withShanghai100 kilometers away, andNanjing200 Kilometers. It has four distinct seasons with mild climate. The annual average temperature is about 15.4 degree celsius. It is awarded one of the ten green cities and also one of the best human habitats in China.

CIT as a provincial full-time undergraduate institute was established in 1958, characterized by cultivating applied talents. It covers an area of 120 hectares with two campuses – Donghu and Dongnan campus. Exclusive foreign teachers apartment and international students apartment are provided on campus.

CIT comprises 53 undergraduate majors of 12 schools which involve 9 disciplines —engineering, science, literature, economics, management, history, law, education, art, etc. It has an enrollment of over 18200 students. Among its nearly 1,200 staff, there are over 250 with doctor degree, and about 450 with senior professional title.

With "Breed integrity, seek truth – keep at it and every day will record your progress" as its motto, CIT has been persistent in serving the locality, developing interactively with regional economy and social causes, and establishing several professional school with some famous enterprises, such as elevator engineering school, international service engineering school, photovoltaic technology school, automobile engineering school, and so on.

CIT is developing international cooperation and exchanges actively. It has dispatched over 200 scholars to more than 10 countries for exchanges or further study. More than 200 foreign teachers were engaged. Friendly relationship has been established with America, Britain, Germany, South Korea, Japan, etc. Double-degree talents cultivation projects have been developed with universities or colleges from Germany, America, Britain, Hong Kong, etc.  Foreign language studies such as English, German, Korean and Japanese are offered here. One testing center of Chinese proficiency test for foreigners (HSK) is set here. CIT has over 20 TCSL (Teaching Chinese as a Second Language) teachers. Presently there are international students from South Korea, Japan, Thailand, America, and Britain, etc.