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Spatial Planning for Smart Sustainability in Shenzhen, China’s Silicon Valley
21 January 2022 | 11:00–12:15 (UTC+8) | Zoom |
Speaker
Prof. Mee Kam Ng
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Director, Urban Studies Programme, CUHK
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Discussants
Dr Kam Shing Leung
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Associate Director, ARUP
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Dr Yuanzhou Tang
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Research Associate, Institute of Future Cities, CUHK
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Moderator
Prof. Fanny M. Cheung
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Senior Advisor, Faculty of Social Science and HKIAPS, CUHK
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Policy Research @ HKIAPS launched its Bay Area Experience Webinar Series on 21 January 2022, with the topic “Spatial Planning for Smart Sustainability in Shenzhen, China’s Silicon Valley”. In this webinar, Prof. Mee Kam Ng presented Shenzhen’s achievements and challenges in smart sustainable development and the implications on planning and development in the Hong Kong SAR. The two discussants, Dr Kam Shing Leung and Dr Yuanzhou Tang, further elaborated with clarifications and specific cases of Shenzhen’s development.
In her presentation, Prof. Ng first summarized the city’s dramatic urban and economic growth, including in the aspects of globalization, regional cooperation, and the economic restriction of Shenzhen from the 1980s to the 2010s. She identified four key constraints on this rapid growth, including shortages of land, water, and energy, as well as the carrying capacity of the ecological environment. She illustrated how Shenzhen resolved those problems by using different smart and sustainable innovations and strategies, citing the examples of Shenzhen’s seven development strategies in 2005 and their draft territorial spatial master plan in 2021. She pointed out that Hong Kong could learn from Shenzhen’s dynamic spatial planning as an effective tool to build on strengths, overcome weaknesses, exploit opportunities, and blunt threats over time, so that Hong Kong can play a bigger role in the Greater Bay Area (GBA).
Dr Leung shared his experiences with Shenzhen’s development. He highlighted the uniqueness of Shenzhen as a special development model such as the manufacturing zero zone (M zero zone), as well as how Shenzhen has been enhancing its education talent pool by inviting reputable universities to set up campuses there. Dr Tang presented his observations on the latest developments in Shenzhen by using different cases, including an online platform for land use planning, an open data platform, real-time online transport simulation system technology, and so on. The promotion of these new and cutting-edge technologies and the enhancement of public accessibility are important to the development process.
A total of 47 local and regional participants attended the webinar.
Video
Articles:
1. Smart sustainable development 1: Visions and implementation-driven efforts towards smart sustainability in Shenzhen (in Chinese) 
2. Smart sustainable development 2: Shenzhen becoming China's 'Silicon Valley' and its implications for Hong Kong (in Chinese)
Organizer
Policy Research @ HKIAPS, CUHK
Co-sponsor
Global China Research Programme, CUHK
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