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The 15 Shortlisted Cities of the 6th Guangzhou Award Released
ZHANG Yajie, Vice Chairman of Guangzhou Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Emilia Saiz , Secretary General of UCLG and Jordi Vaquer , Secretary General of the Metropolis addressed the conference and expressed their appreciation of Guangzhou's contribution to urban innovation and sustainable development globally.
Following the remarks, Azza Sirry , Chair of the Technical Committee announced the 15 Shortlisted cities of this year's Guangzhou Award. She introduced that this year's Guangzhou Award has received many submissions with high-quality initiatives, whether from the perspective of urban innovative development, or the attention to social inclusion and civic participation. Those initiatives all boasted relatively-advanced representativeness and reference value.
After the release, with the topic of High-quality Development and Urban Innovation, Kobie Brand , Deputy Secretary General of ICLEI, Chief Executive Officer and Regional Director of ICLEI Africa; Dyan Currie, Chief Planner of the Brisbane City Council and Lead of Brisbane 2032 Host City Office, together with other experts and scholars, discussed how to make cities healthier, safer and more livable places for high-quality life by promoting the modernization of the urban industrial system, governance capacity and culture type.
The Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation (Guangzhou Award) is co-sponsored by the City of Guangzhou , UCLG and Metropolis since 2012. With more than 1,300 initiatives worldwide, it has become a global platform for global knowledge creation and city-to-city learning on urban innovation.
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