A Study on the Sustainable Development Strategy of China's Urban Construction, a consulting research project funded by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, passed the concluding assessment at a symposium held Monday at Southeast University.
The project lasted two and a half years. The research team involved 26 academicians from 4 divisions of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and more than 300 professionals who joined hands compiling a project report of 80,000 Chinese characters and a research report of 1.48 million Chinese characters.
The research project targets a series of "urban diseases" such as severe traffic congestion, serious air pollution, excessive water pollution, excessive energy consumption, and severe ecological damage. It also deals with weak and fragile infrastructure, inefficient operation, and lack of cultural heritages in today's urban construction in China.
Cheng Taining and Wang Jianguo, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, were the principal investigators.
The team of experts comes from architecture, planning, civil engineering, transportation, environment, water conservancy engineering, electronic information, engineering management and other disciplines.
The interdisciplinary and inter-departmental research conducted a survey of 20 cities in Beijing and Nanjing, as well as small and medium-sized cities in Jiangsu and Henan Province. At the same time, it also conducted surveys in 8 countries including the United States, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Japan, and Singapore.
The final report, a culmination of the research by 7 sub-projects, is expected to offer policy recommendations for forward-looking strategic choices and feasibility for sustainable urban development in China.
(Source:ourjiangsu.com)
