On the morning of September 26, the Green Development Innovation Conference, jointly sponsored by the China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Sichuan Provincial People’s Government, commenced in the city of Suining, Sichuan Province. A crowd of more than 300 guests were invited to attend the grand meeting, including high-level experts, well-known entrepreneurs and delegates from 13 cities in 11 countries.
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Opening ceremony
The Green Development Innovation Conference (hereinafter referred to as “Green Tech Conference”) focused on “green plus” and was comprised of the four major segments of “conference,” “exhibition,” “competition” and “service”. This edition of the Green Tech Conference was held under the main theme of “Clean Energy: New Drive for Green Growth” and aimed to display feats of innovation in green science and technology, drive discussions and exchanges in international and domestic green development strategies, promote industry-academia integration in the fields of ecology and environment, foster a sound ecosystem conducive to scientific and technological innovation, gathering of human resources and industrial development, and provide solid support to the establishment of the nation’s ecological civilization.
Green development is the path that must be trodden on the journey of progress for human civilization. At the meeting, foreign experts actively offered their insights with regards to agendas such as how to promote and spread advance methods for green development cities learned from both Chinese and overseas cities, and new models and new pathways for green development and cooperation. Keynote speeches were delivered by guests from nations such as Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Canada and Italy, and they carried out passionate discussions revolving around the main theme of “innovation drives green development, greenness leads the future of cities”: Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pietr Bakeronov shared administration and governance experiences from Vladivostok, a green coastal city; Professor Bisvas with the National University of Singapore pointed out the opportunities and challenges waiting for the construction of green, smart and habitable cities in the future; Director of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) Atsushi Koresawa of UN-Habitat shed light on precious experiences in terms of urbanization and sustainable development in countries around the globe.
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Guests attending the conference
Why did the conference select Suining as the host of the event? “The hosting of the Green Tech Conference in Suining is a sign of full approval of the feats we achieved in the continual implementation of transformative development, innovative development, leapfrog development and green development”. Shao Gejun, the Secretary of the Suining Municipal CPC Committee, indicated that greenness has already risen as a development advantage of Suining and a proud brand of the city. As early as 2007, Suining was among the first to propose the concept of “green development,” and confirmed it as a strategy that will guide the progress of the whole city. In the past period of over a decade, the previous Party committees and municipal governments of Suining have all upheld the green development strategic mindset and persisted in green development methodologies in all facets of the city’s growth.
“Suining propounded the green development concept more than ten years ago and has followed the principle ever since. The city is at the forefront of the nation in this regard”. Huang Yan, the Deputy Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, expressed that at present Suining has taken firm reign of the two key factors of “Chengdu-Chongqing development axis” and “strong green economic city,” adhered to the mentality of “clear water and green mountain are as good as mountains of gold and silver,” cultivated a green economy, constructed green towns, advocated a green way of life and blazed a new trail of green development, which are demonstrative and meaningful achievements worth promoting around the low-hill areas of western China.
Suining used greenness to transform development concept and enhanced development model, thereby bringing practical prosperity and substantive happiness to the people that inhabit this land. How could one find a sustainable and limitless driving force to propel green development? From the point of view of the Secretary of the Suining Municipal CPC Committee Shao Gejun, green development is a kind of development model characterized by a high degree of science and technology involvement, low resource consumption and low environmental pollution, and its true realization mandates innovation, especially innovation in science and technology.
On the afternoon of the 26th, the “3rd Scientific and Technological Achievement Announcement Conference,” an important component of the Green Tech Conference, was held as scheduled. This edition of the event announced 500 achievements and projects that match Suining’s industry, chosen out of a pool of 583 of the latest scientific and technological achievements and invention patents put forth by 167 organizations around the country including institutions of higher education, scientific research institutes, defense industry units and high and new technology enterprises. Roadshows were held for a group of six projects supported by domestically cutting-edge science and technology, as represented by secret tech project “high and new energy aluminum alloy”.
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Scientific research achievements conference site
During the opening ceremony, Huai Jinpeng, China Association for Science and Technology’s Secretary of the CPC Leadership Group, Executive Vice President and First Secretary of the Secretariat, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, expressed the wish for the conference to promote exchange and cooperation, actively foster new technologies, new business formats and new industries as exemplified by new energy, green equipment manufacturing, energy conservation and environmental protection technology and modern and ecological agriculture, among others, and utilize scientific and technological innovations to lead green and high quality development, so as to enable green ecology to become a consensus and motivation across human society.
“Green development hinges on an open development climate, and the thorough advancement of opening-up efforts will instigate various nations and regions to engage in green exchanges and collaborations on an even larger scale”. Zheng Li, the Director of the Sichuan Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, remarked that we will fully leverage on key foreign-related resources such as mutual visits of high-ranking policy-makers, sister cities relations and consulates, actively establish crucial platforms relevant to green development including the Suining Green Development Innovation Conference and “The Belt & Road” Green City Cooperation Forum, construct a comprehensive cooperation framework to facilitate green development between nations on the “One Belt One Road,” and foster a more fair, just, inclusive and orderly development and opening-up climate, so as to make greater contributions beneficial to the development and integration of green economy worldwide.
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