On August 29th, 2016, symposium of Research on Urban Sustainable Development of Sichuan was held in Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences (the SASS), in which Wangdong, the head of UNDP’s China Country Office, Samantha Andersen, Director Lihui of Office of Liaison of Sichuan Bureau of Expo Affairs, Li Houqiang, the Party secretary and Vice-president Guo Xiaoming of the SASS attended.
Li Houqiang expressed a warm welcome to all firstly, he proposed that cities had many similarities with living organisms in many aspects, so Research on Urban Sustainable Development was a very valuable subject. City organism was artificial life with typical living characteristics of metabolism, self-adaption, irritability, growth and development, heredity and variation and so on, which was a giant complex system taking non-agricultural population as the main body, was formed in some specified regions in the process of human social development and highly integrated by population, economy, politics and culture. Li expected research group to achieve first rated results, and the three sides take this opportunity to carry out long-term, extensive and diverse academic cooperation. Meanwhile, Director Wang Dong highly praised research group, and hoped the three sides to play a greater role in integrating the western resources, uniting local governments, cities, think-tanks and non-governmental organizations, establishing platform of innovation and development in western cities and promoting development patterns of Western China to the world in the future. Besides, Li Hui introduced the background and general requirements of this meeting, and deployed specific arrangements.
At last, on behalf of the SASS, Vice-president Guo carried on the division of labor. He stressed that as an important part of Western China International Fair(WCIF), which was a high-level and strong influential meeting, Research on Urban Sustainable Development of Sichuan Sub-forum took effort to deliver good think-tank products, so the three units should keep a close contact and timely communication, make full preparation for this summit forum, and lay a good foundation for in-depth cooperation in the future.
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