China's New Green Plan: the Local Angle
To get a better view of what
was happening at the local level in terms of China's new national low carbon and ecological planning,
I recently traveled to Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. Jiaxing (above--click on
photos for full size) is a "small town" of about four million that is
now only 21 minutes (80 kilometers) from metro Shanghai on a new high-speed
electric train line, the fastest in the world--the line, which will
eventually extend to Beijing, recently set a test record of 259 miles per hour.
I was traveling with other
strategic advisers from the Institute for Strategic Resilience, Irv Beiman
and Daniel Zhu. Jiaxing is Zhu's hometown, and he helped arrange our two-day
visit.
Jiaxing sees itself as a
"Garden City" (with more than 40 percent forest cover), and truly it
felt that way thanks to extensive landscaping and forests planted on the site
of former rice fields. Jiaxing is also billing itself as the "Oriental
Silicon Valley," which embodies China's plans to transform its economy, particularly
in eastern coastal areas such as the Yangtze Delta, from manufacturing to
service industries, such as IT and green technologies, to supplant its
product-export-dominated industrial base.
Anumakonda Jagadeesh comments:
Excellent post. China's commitment to reduce green house gases to avert
climate change is a welcome sign for clean environment.
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