UCLG ASPAC Newsletter Vol 28

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Nanhu Lake, Nanning

NANNING

THE LIVABLE AND GREEN CITY WITH

1700-year history, Nanning is famous for being the “Green City of

China” and a well-known ecological and livable city. The city won the “UN

Invitation to Participate and Collaborate

Habitat Scroll of Honor” in 2007. As a popular tourist destination, the city

With all the efforts and initiatives taken, Nanning proudly welcomes all

received over 100 million tourists in 2017. The total area of Nanning is about

leaders and interested participants to the 12th China (Nanning) International

22,000 km2, home for 7.5 million people, 3 million of which are living in urban

Garden Expo, which will be held from December 2018 to May 2019. The Expo

area. In the past six years, Nanning’s GDP has doubled and reached 65 billion

is the highest-level event in Chinese garden industry. It takes “Building an

USD in 2017, becoming one of the most dynamic economic growth poles in

Ecologically-Friendly and Livable City with Garden Architecture” as its theme.

southern China.

Currently, ten cities in ASEAN countries and nine cities along the Belt and Road gave their official consent of participation. The Garden Expo Park has

The City’s Commitment Nanning has put great commitment on environment. In recent years, the city has committed to implement sponge city strategy and wetland protection. Efforts taken include improvement of sewage treatment, reduction of water pollution sources, and improvement of the urban water environment. The city has also run trees and seasonal flower planting projects in important roads and node area, continuously increasing the intensity of naked land remediation and promoting three-dimensional greening. The application of clean energy such as natural gas, electricity and solar energy has also been actively promoted in the city. The supervision and rectification of industrial air pollution, vehicle emissions and kitchen waste disposal has also been the focus of local government.

been speeding up its construction and scheduled to put into trial operation in August 2017. To expand the network and collaboration, Nanning also invites leaders to the 15th China-ASEAN Expo, which will be held in September 2018. Co-organised by multinational governments, the expo carries out abundant activities and sets up a platform for multi-level exchange and cooperation between China and ASEAN with exhibitions as the core. Member cities of ASPAC are warmly welcome to visit Nanning during the two great expo to experience the grand gathering, and further the exchange and cooperation in more fields so as to contribute to the common prosperity and progress of the world’s cities.

Result of the Efforts Taken In recent years, the urban air quality rate has remained 95 per cent, of which the number of days of excellence reached 191 days in 2017. Through the air pollution control, PM10 and PM2.5 in 2017 decreased by 9.7 per cent and 2.8 per cent respectively over the previous year, and the city’s Air Quality Index (AQI) ranked 6th among all the provincial capital cities of China in 2017.

Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center (NICEC)


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