Established by National Education Holdings Group (Beijing), North Shanghai International School (NSIS) is a modern international boarding school. Under the management of LEED Education Group (www.leed-edu.com), NSIS shares the same advanced courses and overseas educational resources with other quality schools in China.

NSIS was established to provide quality, bilingual education for expatriate and Chinese children from preschool through middle grade levels. This is accomplished with the highest possible education standards in an integrated Chinese and Western cultural environment to foster the creative elite for the global community.

The beautiful and well-equipped campus is set in the Hi-tech Development Zone of Taicang, just north of Shanghai.

About Taican: Taicang, a city lies on the intersection of the Yangtze River economic belt and the coastal opening belt, covers an area of 823 sq. km with 450,000 population. In the Warring States Period which is more than 2400 years ago, the King of Wu and Mr. Chun Shen set up their granaries here, thus the name of Taicang, which means the granary of the kingdom came into existence.

Taicang is an ancient cultural city in the south bank of the Yangtze River . Liujagang Port of Taicang was an important port in history, which has connected China with the outside world. It enjoyed the name of Dock of Six Countries. It was also the place where the great navigator of Ming Dynasty, Mr. Zheng He, set sail seven times to the Western World.

Taicang is the most advanced area in economy in Jiangsu Province. In recent years, Taicang's economy has increased by 16% each year. In 2000, GDP of the whole city reached 15.6 billion RMB and GDP per capita reached 4000 USD, ranking the first in Jiangsu Province . In 2001, the synthetic index of social and economic development of the whole nation showed that among 100 strongest counties (cities) in China , Taicang ranks the 7th for its synthetic strength and first for its development vitality.

Taicang is a newly burgeoning port city. Taicang port is a stream outlet oriented deep-water seaport. It owns favorable deep-water bank line resources, among which 25 km are available to build deep-water berths of over 10,000 tonnage. It is qualified to meet the requirements of turning waters for ships of over 50,000 tonnage and container ships of the third and the fourth generation.