1. Toward a Resource Saving and
Environmental Friendly
Development
Changsha‟s Case
Zhang Jianfei
Mayor
City of Changsha, Hunan
Province, China

2. A Brief Introduction of Changsha
 Capital of Hunan Province
 Area: 11,800 sq km
 Pop: 7.04 million
 GRP: US$89.1 billion
Changsha
Changsha

3. A Historical City

4. Beautiful landscape

5.  A modern city

6. The Home of Fireworks

7. The Fast Economic Development
Since the reform and open up in
1979, China has made enormous
economic and social achievement
Year GDP（Yuan billion）
1978 364.5
1988 1,504.3
1998 8,440.2
2008 30,067.0
2009 33,535.3
2010 39,798.3

8. The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge
built in 1960-1968 by mobilizing
the entire countries’ Resource

9. Hangzhou Bay Birdge 38.2 km

10. Pressures
 Excessive Usage of Resources
 Constraints of Land, Energy, etc.
 Pollution
 The Price of World Manufacture Center
 Export land
 Export labor force
 Import pollution

11. Changsha‟s Case
 Facing enormous challenge
 Rapid Economic Growth (14.8% in 2011)
 130,000 people migrate to the city yearly
 400,000 apartment unit under construction
 500 vehicles added daily
 Land, resource, environment ?
 Approved as the resource saving and
environmental friendly pilot city by
the national government

12. Resource Saving and
Environmental Friendly
Development
 Rethinking(education)
 Are we really happier by owning more
(big house, consumer products)?
 The difference between expectation
and reality determines happiness
rather than what you have
 Ensuring implementation of “3Rs”

13. The “3R”Rule
 Reduce
 Reuse
 Recycle

14. Resource Saving and
Environmental Friendly
Development
 Land saving
 Industry, housing and infrastructure
development are very land demanding
 Promoting high density development
 tax incentive and disincentives

15. High Density
Development

16. Resource Saving and
Environmental Friendly
Development
 Energy saving
 Promoting public transportation (doubling
the government budget in 2009)
 More energy efficient buildings
 Power demand management
 Cut down power demand by 20%

17. Inefficient Illumination

18. Size of Hotel Lobby

19. Resource Saving and
Environmental Friendly
Development
 Other resources saving
 Always seeking for least costly solutions
 Reduction in use of disposable items(first
city discouraging use of disposable items in
hotels)
 Promoting life-cycle cost concept
 Improving quality and increasing durability

20. Old Style Road
Design and
Construction

21. New Approach

22. 没有必要的装饰

23. 工程精细管理

24. Minimizing Life-cycle Cost

25. Resource Saving and
Environmental Friendly
Development
 Environmental friendly development
 Large scale public campaign
 Code for „NO‟s
 Very selective in industry development
 Completed the first Three Year Action
plan ($1.6 billion investment)
 Started second Three Year Action Plan

26. Hongxing Reservoir

27. Hongxin Reservoir

28. Hongxing Community Park

29. Providing More Public Space

30. Turning the Governmental
Square to a Public Park

31. The park just finished

32. The Orange Island Case

33. The Orange Island

34. The Orange Island

35. The Orange Island

36. The Orange Island

37. The Orange Island

38. The Orange Island

39. The Orange Island

40. The Orange Island

41. Guangming Village

42. Guangming Village

43. Guangming Village

44. Guangming Village

45. Guangming Village

46. Guangming Village
 6.8 km bicycle lanes
 $6,000+$1,500 house upgrading per
family(more energy efficient)
 5 km hiking track
 Basket ball field and tennis court
 Great number of tourists from
Cities

47. Guangming Village

48. Guangming Village

49. Guangming Village

50. Guangming Village

51. Guangming Village

52. Resource Saving and
Environmental Friendly
Development
In Conclusion
 A lot can be done
 We are trying to do more

53. Thank You