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Forum takes pragmatic approach to spurring new development

China Daily Globa | Updated: 2020-09-20 16:12

Using a variety of approaches to boost cities' creativity while adhering to sustainable development is crucial to their success, officials told a forum on Friday.

Part of the third UNESCO Creative Cities Beijing Summit during the 2020 Zhongguancun Forum held from Sept 17 to 20, the panel forum attracted mayors and experts from home and abroad to share insights and experience on managing city development.

Liu Xiaoliu, vice-mayor of Chengdu, highlighted the historic city's thousands of years of history in urban civilization development, urban planning and construction. In 2010, Chengdu was designated as a member city of UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the field of gastronomy.

Since then, the city has drawn on the urban development experience from other international metropolises to boost its own development with technology and creativity, Liu said.

"We convert innovation into a major driver for high-caliber development and gather core momentum for sustainable urban growth," she said.

The city has also focused on environmental protection in pursuit of sustainable development.

"We are sharing efficient governance to strengthen the resilience of sustainable urban development," Liu said.

Gael Perdriau, mayor of Saint-Etienne in France, said urban design is about far more than drawing nice objects in design weeks or trade fairs.

In Saint-Etienne, society's design is concerned with citizens' expectations in a world evolving constantly, Perdriau said.

"The ongoing health crisis we are facing underscores our society's environmental weakness and hence the vital need to deeply reshape our economic, social, cultural, societal and even political models," he said.

To build another society implies that people are at the core of public politics. It also means to renew the logic on a short-term basis to the long-term one based on social and economic development, Perdriau said.

"We are bound not just to implement a punitive ecology. We have to build on a long-term basis while handling scarcity and even a shortage of resources. This is why the economy and sustainable development are not contradictory."

Wu Zhiqiang, chief planner of the comprehensive design of the Beijing Administrative Center, also known as Beijing's sub-city center, shared his philosophy in the urban development and the planning and urban design for the capital's subcity center.

The planning of the sub-city center focuses on harmony in sectors incorporating city and nature, history and cultural innovation, social life and communities, green transportation and infrastructure, city landscape and art innovation, and the coordination of the sub-city center and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

Inspired by traditional Chinese wisdom of dealing with the relationship between people and nature, Wu said they also put together traditional merits with the modern international innovative technologies in planning.

He explained the designing concept as Jiayuan, a home space for people."In Chinese, jia means family, and yuan means our gardens. Families and gardens together make Jiayuan," he said.

People-oriented planning and design of the Jiayuan also focuses on innovations such as digital diagnosis and intelligent facilities, he said.

 

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