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Eight Chinese cities will look for intelligent urban solutions in Smart City Expo World Congress

05/09/2013

5 September 2013

The year 2012 marked a historical turning point for China: For the first time, the Popular Republic China turned into an essentially urban society with 712 million people (52,6% of the total) living in cities. To absorb of efficient way to the new citizens, the Asian giant needs to adapt his cities and build new urbes able to manage his resources and cover the needs of his inhabitants of efficient way. With this aim, eight Chinese cities will look for urban solutions in Smart City Expo World Congress 2013, the world-wide summit of intelligent cities that will celebrate in Fira of Barcelona of the 19 to 21 November.

Smart City Expo World Congress 2012.

The cities that already have confirmed his presence are Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghái, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Wuhai and Wuxi. The Chinese official delegation will have more than a hundred of representatives so much institutional as of technical profile. The public sector will be accompanied of the private sector in his trip to Barcelona since China will have his own pavilion in the area of exhibition of Smart City Expo. Organised by the Chinese Communications Industry Association, will have a surface of more than 100 m2 and will include a ten of companies of the sector of the Technologies of the Information and the Communication (TIC).

China has in the diverse actuality urbes that surpass the 10 million inhabitants (Beijing, Shangái, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Tianjin) and is building a good number more. The construction of these megaciudades will go as accompanied of the need to transform the already existent to attain a greater efficiency in the consumption of power and of natural resources. Thus, so much the new capitals like the already existent require intelligent urban solutions that contribute an approach holístico and multidisciplinary in the planning urbanística and the construction that help them to be more sustainable.

With an economic growth of 7,8% in 2012 and an investment in infrastructures of 9% of his GDP, the last plan quinquenal of the Chinese government has centred especially in the environingingmental sustainability and the welfare of the citizens so much of urban areas like rural. This same plan has identified the TIC like a crucial factor in the achievement of the marked aims of urban sustainability, increase of the welfare of the population and the provision of public services to the long and width of the greater second country of the world.

Smart City Expo World Congress will gather to some of the main international experts and thinkers in the urban terrain with the aim to tackle the main challenges to which confront the cities. Between the speakers that appear in the program of the next edition of the summit stand out Amory Lovins, scientific ambientalista and researcher boss of the Rocky Mountain Institute; Kent Larson, director of the group of investigation Changing Places and codirector of the City Science Initiative in the Half Lab of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Anthony Townsend director of investigation of the Institute for the Future; and the economist and urban developing expert Richard Florida.

Organised by Fira of Barcelona, Smart City Expo World Congress is the event of international reference on intelligent cities. In his last edition, gathered to more than 250 speakers, 100 cities of the five continents, and more than 7.000 visitors of 82 countries.