"The specialists from Moscow visit cities in China regularly, and learn from their practices in city management and governance," said Aleksandra Voronova, counselor at the Moscow Center for ...

After more than 40 years of rapid development since reform and opening-up began, Tianjin has become a modern international ...

Qu Yingpu, publisher and editor-in-chief of China Daily, said that major SCO cities, as key hubs for economic growth and ...

Cities in countries involved in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are accelerating efforts to use science and technology ...

Why is China building so many eco-cities? Construction worker walks by Nanhui's central lake, which is part of what makes it an eco-city. Wade Shepard.

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China has built more than 500 of these empty cities since the cultural revolution in 1978, with hundreds more set to come online by the end of the decade.

By 2020, China hopes that 80% of its urban areas will absorb and re-use at least 70% of rainwater. To date, the cities have received more than $12 billion for sponge projects, according to China ...

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To prevent floods, China is building “sponge cities ... In 2015 it released a series of guidelines for building them. The aim is for 80% of cities to collect and recycle 70% of rainwater by 2030.

“The speed is so dramatically different in China,” said Sonnet Hui, executive project director for Shenzhen Hazens, which is building a $700-million mixed-use project across from Staples Center.

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three times the size of the U.S. system.