GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- China has been deepening its ecological
environment protection over the past four decades of reform and
opening-up, during which its forest coverage has nearly doubled
from 12% to 21.66%. And the ecological progress of China has
been increasingly recognized by the international community. On
December 14, the first World
Eco-Design Conference kicked off in Conghua, a district of
Guangzhou with forest coverage up
to 68.7%. Participants from more than 30 countries and regions
gathered in the eco-design town of Conghua.
Various novel industrial design products, including drinkable
pesticides, light source for plant fermentation and smart
hoverboards, made their debuts at the
conference. It is
conceivable that Guangzhou's
ability to pool high-end talents, expert teams and huge capital in
eco-design will accelerate the formation of a more competitive
innovation and entrepreneurship system.
Guangzhou, with an aim to become the initiator of
the global eco-design campaign and the eco-design capital, has made
its voice heard by issuing the Conghua Initiative on the World
Eco-design Industry Development at the conference. The Initiative
calls for an inclusive global economy and sustainable growth
through innovative design for promoting the wellbeing of
mankind.
At the same time, Guangzhou is
taking actions on stimulating green innovation. The city epitomizes
the Chinese solution to pursuing the green development path over
the past four decades.
On April 2016, Memorandum
of Understanding(MoU) of Sino-Swiss Low Carbon Cities Project
between the People's Government of Guangzhou and the Swiss Agency for Development
and Cooperation was signed. With the launch of the project in
Conghua, the ecological center of the Greater Bay Area, the
district will learn from Switzerland in building a low-carbon city to
foster an ecological chain of low-carbon industries.
Guangzhou, while building a
technological innovation center of the Greater Bay Area through
eco-design, is gaining strong momentum in integrating into the
world and driving sustainable economic growth, as new energy and
new materials industries and new technologies are shooting up, and
the public awareness of environmental protection is increasing.
A thorough observation shows that the world-renowned bay areas
of New York, San Francisco and Tokyo are global centers in terms of not just
technological innovation, but also design. Conghua, seeking to pioneer on the global
eco-design front, will attract more fine resources into the
Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Science and
Technology Innovation Corridor for accelerated development.
"The Greater Bay Area boasts a well-established industrial base,
a pool of high-caliber personnel and huge market capital
and capacity. And powered by
eco-design as an accelerator, the Area will be home to a strong
growth engine driven by innovation for more eco-friendly industries and more
industrialized eco-design," said Gao Yuyue, deputy
secretary-general of the Guangzhou
municipal government.
During the conference, the Sino-Swiss Design MoU was also signed
by the Conghua government, China Industrial Design Association and
its Swiss counterpart, making it clear that cooperation will be
made in jointly building a Sino-Swiss Low Carbon Industrial Park, a
Hong Kong-Macao Research Institute of Ecological and Industrial
Design and the Bay Area Open University of Design.
Through institutions and practices, the green development of
Conghua has been put on a faster track, and a testimony to that is
its eco-design town. By strengthening the eco-design, R&D and
education, Conghua helps to combine
all economic sectors and establishes a featured town to grow the
new economy. Going ahead, a 10-billion-yuan-worth eco-design industrial fund
will be set up in a bid to cultivate eco-industries, including
intelligent agriculture, service robot, smart hoverboard and
hydrogen vehicle.
"The eco-design town in Conghua, represents a pool of wisdom,
talents and innovative and creative ideas," said Li Yong, Director General of the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization. In his view, eco-design has
huge potential, and branding and designing have a significant role
to play in a successful company. It will, in many ways, stimulate industrial investment in new
energy and material industries.
A total of 65 eco-design companies across the world signed up to
locate in the eco-town of Conghua on December 5. "In the future, industries here will
progress in a green, smart, creative and recycling way," said Ying
Fangtian, secretary-general and deputy director-general of China
Industrial Design Association.
From theories to practical outcomes, the process has taken the
economic and social development of Guangzhou to new heights. The city, constantly using new technologies such
as Internet big data, flexible manufacturing, and artificial
intelligence, has brought out new plat forms and new forms. The
industrial design outcomes and green innovation will continue to
give fresh impetus to the upgrading of Guangzhou's traditional industries as the city
represents the permanent site of the World Eco-Design
Conference.
Wang Zhen, Asia-Pacific Director of the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization, is conscious that as a pioneer of
China's reform and opening-up,
Guangzhou has been committed to
moving up the industrial value chain by combining eco-design with
industrial development. These sustainable practices serve as a fine
example for Asia-Pacific
nations.
In fact, the design and construction of the eco-town has applied
a number of low carbon eco-friendly technologies and efficiently
made the dilapidated areas, including the broken houses, plants and
schools, back to life.
This unique design of venue is a demonstration of an
ecologically innovative and dynamic Guangzhou. While sustaining fast economic
growth, the garden city continues to improve its environment. Last
year, it took a lead among other central Chinese cities in lowering
the level of dangerous PM2.5 particulates to the designated
standard and its green coverage ratio reached to 42.5%.
In the view of Kevin Rudd, the
former Australian Prime Minister, "Guangzhou, as a world's first-tier city, has
the foundation and capacity to promote the scientific and
technological innovation within the Greater Bay Area with
eco-design concepts." He also said that green ecological
development is the trend, and ecological design is a key to
sustainable development.
"Industrial design provides a good start and entry point for
China's quality development. With
the Greater Bay Area under construction, the concept of green
development it champions and the industrial design will reinforce
each other," said Feng Changhong,
executive vice president of Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession
Association. She believes that the Greater Bay Area's overall
strength in terms of finance, technology and industry will multiply
if the innovative cities, like Guangzhou and Shenzhen, can join forces with the
manufacturing centers of Dongguan,
Foshan and Zhongshan and the international metropolis of
Hong Kong and Macao.
"Eco-design has been defined in various ways amid China's mass entrepreneurship and innovation.
A sound and enabling industrial ecosystem can be driven and
fostered by design itself and thus strike a balance among nature,
mankind and industry," said Pan Yunhe, academician and former vice
president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Green development, which is featured by higher quality and
stronger momentum, together with green lifestyle, has been more
accepted by the Chinese people. In the case of Guangzhou, its further development is based on
ecological progress and innovation, creating a better and greener
future.
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SOURCE The People's Government of Guangzhou Municipality