Please note that the meeting venue has been changed into Hilton Beijing (1 Dong Fang Road, North Dong Sanhuan Road , Chaoyang District).This event will be conducted in both English and Chinese with simultaneous translation.    

Since 2017, with the funding from the European Commission, the European Chamber has been participating in the Horizon 2020 Project – EU-China Innovation Platform on Sustainable Urbanisation (UEC) as a consortium partner together with other 11 institutions from both Europe and China. This project aims at finding opportunities, promoting innovation, sharing and improving the design, services and technologies of cities to make them more functional, effective, livable and people-oriented for inhabitants to live in through cooperation with other cities, relevant industries, research institutions and decision-making organs. The project will promote the formulation and practice of the strategies for China-EU cooperation in sustainable urbanisation, establish a plan for China-EU cooperation projects and enhance partnership by creating virtual or real meeting environment.

To further facilitate the EU-China Urbanisation Partnership,the EU-China Dialogue on Circular Economy and the EU-China Leaders' Statement on Climate Change and Clean Energy, help implement the National Plan on New Type of Urbanisation (2014-2020) and accelerate the pace of city pairing, city-industry integration and industry-industry cooperation between China and Europe, the European Chamber, together with the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (CAUPD) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development (MOHURD), and the China Centre for Urban Development (CCUD) of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), will invite key stakeholders, including but not limited to policy makers from both China and Europe, experts from research and academic institutions, representatives from industrial organisations and international corporations, to explore innovative mode of sustainable urbanisation. 

Agenda:

13:00-14:00 Registration and Welcome

14:00-14:20 Opening Remarks

                     Philippe, Vialatte, Minister Counsellor, Head of Science, Technology and Environment Section, Delegation

                      of the European Union to China

                     Zhou Nan, Deputy Director General, Department of Development and Planning, NDRC

14:20–14:40 Keynote Speech I: EU-China Cooperation and Practice on City-Industry Integration

                      Li Xun, Deputy Director General and Vice President, CAUPD of MOHURD

                      Massimo Bagnasco, Vice President, European Chamber

14:40-14:50 Keynote Speech II: Driving New Type of Urbanisation Through PPP Reform in China

                     Jiao Xiaoping, Director General, Public-Private Partnership Centre, Ministry of Finance

14:50–16:00 Thematic Dialogue I: Innovative and Effective Approaches to EU-China Cooperation on Sustainable

                      Urban Development

                      Moderator: Liu Yue, Director, Department of International Cooperation, CCUD

                      Commentator: Massimo Bagnasco, Vice President, European Chamber

                      Panel speakers:

                      Guo Fengyuan, Deputy Director, Department of Energy Conservation and Resource Utilisation, MIIT

                      Gao Dexu, Deputy Director, Division of Urbanisation, Tianjin Development and Reform Commission

                      Margit Noll, Chair of the Mangament Board, JPI Urban Europe

                      Nikolaos Kontinakis, Senior Projects Coordinator, EURO CITIES

                      Zhu Shu, Regional Director, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability East Asia Secretariat

16:00–16:15 Coffee Break

16:15–17:20 Thematic Dialogue II: Key Technologies and Standards for Urban Ecosystem Management

                      Moderator: Li Xun, Deputy Director General and Vice President, CAUPD of MOHURD

                      Commentator: Javier Lopez, National Chair of Chamber Construction Working Group

                      Panel speakers:

                      Tong Guichan, Director of Division of International Cooperation, Department of Building Energy and Science & Technology, MOHURD

                      Li Feng, Director, Ministry of Natural Resources

                      Song Yehao, Director and Professor, Institute for Architecture & Technology Studies, Tsinghua University

                      Alfred Che, Vice President, Danfoss

                      Jet Chang, Vice President, TOMRA

17:20–17:30 Closing Remarks

                      Annemie Wyckmans, Coordinator of UEC Project, Head of the Smart Sustainable Cities Group

                      of Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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