Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing are the top three Chinese cities in
terms of green development, according to a report published on Tuesday
by the Green Development Initiative for Asia and the Pacific of Beijing
Normal University.
Out of 100 cities in the Asia-Pacific region,
two Chinese cities made it into the top 20 list, with Hong Kong ranked
No.4 and Shanghai ranked No.15, according to the Asia-Pacific Urban
Green Development Report: Building Better Cities for 2030.
Tokyo ranked first on the list, trailed by Seoul and New York. Among the top 15 cities, six are in the US. Beijing ranked No.21.
The cities are evaluated by their levels of livability, prosperity and governance, among other criteria.
On
September 3, China and the US expanded joint efforts on climate change
by adoption of the international climate-change agreement reached in
Paris in December 2015.
These steps raised the urgency for green development in China, experts said.
The
report found that economic growth does not preclude green development,
as all of the top 15 cities have an annual per capita GDP of over
$14,000.
A city's creativeness, such as the number of patents
filed within the city, is also in proportion to the city's level of
green development, the report indicated, adding that most of the top 30
cities have a strong services industry such as financing or information
technology.
The report found that Chinese cities still rank
behind their US counterparts in terms of green development, and it
called for more efforts to learn from examples offered by leading cities
in the region.
Zhao Zheng, deputy director of the Green
Development Initiative for Asia and the Pacific, said the green
development of Chinese cities is still confined to individual cities.
Green
development has not yet been expanded into urban clusters in China,
while the five US cities on the top 15 list of the 100 surveyed cities
are in such clusters on the west and east coasts of the US, Zhao said.
"In
the Yangtze River Delta, for example, there is a wide gap between the
green development of Shanghai and that of Nanjing [capital of East
China's Jiangsu Province], which ranked No.66. Green development is more
the result of work by individual municipal governments," Zhao told the
Global Times on Tuesday, calling for an overall design to governance.
Source:Global Times Editor：Yang shuang
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