China, Germany join hands to build low-carbon town
NANJING, Jan 29, 2010 -- Xinhua
Two well-known German green construction companies signed cooperation
accords Friday with a local management department in eastern China's
Jiangsu province to help build a 100,000-people low-carbon demonstration
town on the southern bank of the Yangtze River.
According to Xue Liang, head of the management commission of Lingang New
Town, Jiangyin city, the planned low-carbon town will be built in three
to five years and develop into a sub-center of the city.
The project, dubbed Lingang New World, will be located at Shengang of
Jiangyin, with the first-phase construction cover an area of 2.63 square
kilometers.
Major functional blocks of the first phase will embrace
administrative and commerce, research and development and education,
financial service and exhibition and conference, recreation and living
service areas.
DEKRA AG and I.Design Engineering Architect Holding Group (I.DEA) would
provide technical support for the planned low-carbon town, Xue said.
I.DEA will offer central energy supply solutions for the new town,
according to Claus Treppte, a top tech official with the German company.
It will adopt geothermal, solar energy and other advanced energy
technologies to ensure sustained energy efficiency for the town.
Xue Liang told Xinhua that low-carbon industry had taken shape in
Jiangyin. At the end of 2009, the city's low-carbon industrial park
ushered in a group of well-known new-energy companies from abroad and
other part of China, including a glass fiber products supplier from
Denmark. Endtiem
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