Prof. WU Zhiqiang 吴志强教授

Dean, College of Architecture and Urban Planning

 

Since 1978, with the rapid economic growth, China has entered a period of rapid development of urbanization, which drove large-scale population to circulate across cities and districts. At the same time, when urbanization brought historical contribution to China, problems such as energy and resource consumption, environmental pollution, congestion of transportation, expense of urban land-use, have become bottleneck challenges to China’s urban development.

 

In recent years, Chinese planners have constantly been putting in efforts to avoid the negative impacts of rapid urbanization. From “concept” to “practice”, from “national strategy” to “local policy”, Chinese urban planning society has explored urban sustainable design approaches for cities in different climate zones and different levels.

 

 

As an experiment of the future sustainable urban development, within the core concept of “Harmony City” and “Eco+ city”, Shanghai Expo will demonstrate progresses and practical experiences from all over the world on reducing energy and resource consumption, systematically display the latest research achievements on ecological system construction, and reveal the developing orientation of “harmony between human being and nature” in cities of the 21st century.