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2005 Summit Themes and Sub-Topics
Updated: 2005-10-10 11:29
Theme: City, Man and Nature
Sub-Themes:
- Harmony between man and nature: environmental management.
This topic will explore ways to create an agreeable human habitat in the course of urban development. Speakers will share their experience in modern environmental protection industries such as sewage treatment, air purification, garbage disposal and urban forestation.
- Creating distinctiveness: the art of city planning.
This topic will explore ways to optimize the layout and functions of an urban space, and to keep the distinctiveness of each city by exploiting its natural elements, preserving its heritage and employing modern planning concepts and technologies.
- Industrial pulse: the source of city dynamism.
This topic will explore innovative ways for governments to foster and support economic development and enhance the dynamism of a city.
- Smart governance: Smart city administration.
This topic will examine how to utilise modern information technologies to handle city challenges such urban transportation, public facilities, security, crisis management and improve the operating efficiency of the city.
- Job creation: fair job opportunities.
This topic will explore ways to mitigate unemployment and narrow the gap between the rich and poor by creating fair job opportunities for all in the process of urban modernization.
- Education: cultivating lifetime learning to build city capacity.
This topic will examine the strategy of building a learning city where lifetime education cultivates a unique human spirit.
- City harmony: an untiring pursuit of urban community building.
This topic will feature discussions on ways to build vibrant communities through community services and participation in city life.
- Hand-in-hand: cooperation and exchanges between Asia-Pacific cities.
This topic will focus on the inevitability of economic globalization and explore possible means, modes and mechanisms for extended cooperation to achieve mutual benefit.
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