Symposium for Criteria and Indicators System for Green Urbanization convened in Tokyo

"Symposium for Criteria and Indicators System for Green Urbanization" was convened recently in Tokyo.

"Symposium for Criteria and Indicators System for Green Urbanization" was convened recently in Tokyo. The Indicators System developed by Zhou Muzhi, the Professor of Tokyo Keizai University, is a vital part of "Sino-Japanese Green Urbanization Cooperation Mechanism" of the department of development planning of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Environmental Affairs of Government of Japan.

The Indicators System aims to promote the integration intelligent and the sustainable development of Urbanization in China, and providing guiding policy tool and planning tool. Previously, Chinese and Japanese experts had conducted numerous phased researches and discussions around the Indicators System. The aim of this Symposium is to validate the Indicators System.

Hideki Minamikawa, the Minister of the Environmental Affairs of Government of Japan, Du Ping, Executive Vice-Director of State Information Center, and Nakai Tokutaro, the Cabinet Officer of Government of Japan elaborated the necessity of the Criteria and Indicators System, and underlining the strategic importance of Sino-Japan Cooperation in the field of urban and the environment.

Yoshinori Yokoyama, distinguished professor of Tokyo University illustrated the concept and structure of the Indicators System and the meaning of the indicators at each levels. As the research and development team of the Indicators System, the researchers of Cloud River Japan Co.,Ltd presented the Indicators System.

Akinori Morimoto, a professor at Waseda University, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, the Deputy Director of MORI Urban Planning Corporation ( Japan), and Masaaki Sugita, the Research Director of Cloud River Japan Co., and Japanese experts participating the developing indicators appended the illustrations to the features of construction and the technique of analysis and suggested researching and developing a common indicators of Asian cities based on this set of indicators.

Yue Xiuhu, Deputy director of the department of development planning of the National Development, Mu Rongping, Director of Innovation and Development Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hu Junkai, the Executive Chief Editor of Xinhua News Agency "Outlook" Weekly,

Ming Xiaodong, Chinese embassy in Japan, had a high opinion of the feature of the Indicators. They indicated that the Criteria and Indicators System not only fused the world advance principles and lessons for other developed countries, but also integrated organically multidimensional perspective of environmental, economic and social, constructing a framework of the three-dimensional analysis of city spatial structure, which is expected to provide the scientific policy and planning means for Chinese Urbanization.

Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President of Japan's Central Environment Council, gave high expectations to the utility of the Indicators will play out, Zhou Muzhi, the Professor of Tokyo Keizai University, has presided over the symposium.

It is reported that the specific content of Criteria and Indicators System for Green Urbanization is scheduled to be officially released on the second "Green Urbanization International Symposium" hosted in China on March 29, 2015.

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