Chinanews.com Liuzhou on December 3rd (Lin Xin) 3rd, representatives from more than 80 countries and regions from all over the world participated in the fourth global conference of international urban cooperation projects through online mode.
As one of the representative cities in China, Liuzhou City in Guangxi shared its experience in dealing with the new crown epidemic and discussed the development of the post-epidemic era.
From the perspective of the special challenges facing the world in the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the conference discussed urban development and subsequent green recovery while maintaining sustainable progress.
The Fourth Global Conference of the International Urban Cooperation Project was held online.
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Liuzhou City shared experience as a representative.
Hou Gang, the deputy mayor of Liuzhou City, said that in response to the impact and suspension caused by the epidemic, Liuzhou City quickly studied and introduced a series of policy measures to address the difficulties in the recovery of the supply chain of the enterprise industry chain, product sales, and financing difficulties.
Promote the coordinated resumption of work between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, promote the resumption of work and production and the market, and the economic operation has gradually returned to the right track.
Hou Gang believes that in the post-epidemic era, it is particularly important to build healthy and safe cities and improve their ability to respond to major public health emergencies.
In terms of hardware foundation, it is necessary to build and provide a fully functional urban operation guarantee system such as medical and health, epidemic prevention and disaster relief, emergency rescue, transportation, living supply, sanitation and environmental protection; in terms of software foundation, it is necessary to cultivate and establish competent medical and health, disaster prevention and relief systems. Teams, improve the health and epidemic prevention, emergency response laws and other systems and mechanisms.
How will economic development recover in the post-epidemic era?
Hou Gang said that new transportation technologies such as the Internet and big data, electronic payments, and express delivery services play an important role in epidemic prevention and fighting.
It is necessary to accelerate the construction of digital cities, build a smart city application system and a smart business application system for epidemic prevention and control, and comprehensively improve the level of urban informatization.
In addition, actively develop and promote the application of green low-carbon technologies to promote "green recovery".
While responding to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Liuzhou has accelerated the pace of informatization, intelligence and digital development.
Focus on the deployment of new-energy vehicles and charging facilities and other new infrastructure construction, support investment in supporting infrastructure for green electrification, improve resource and energy utilization efficiency, and provide support for the green and low-carbon recovery of Liuzhou's economy.
According to reports, the "International Urban Cooperation Project" is funded by the EU Partnership Project Mechanism and is mainly dedicated to promoting cooperation between China and European cities and regions in sustainable urban development. In 2018, Liuzhou became a case city for regional policy cooperation between China and Europe. It has carried out close cooperation with EU cities in the fields of industry, technology, education, and signed 17 memorandums of cooperation to gradually explore a new model of China-EU international urban cooperation. In the post-epidemic era, Liuzhou continued to cooperate in-depth with European cities to accelerate the construction of Sino-German (Liuzhou) Industrial Park and Sino-Europe Industrial Park. (Finish)