1 June 2022 | TO improve the business environment in Yiwu, spread traditional Chinese culture, help foreign friends to understand China (and Yiwu), and blend into the local community through culture, Yiwu City brought a series of traditional cultural activities to foreigners in Yiwu. On June 1, Yiwu Foreign Affairs Office and other relevant authorities …
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MANY city leaders focus on local economic development. With this priority, there are various efforts taken by cities, from the development of areas for tourist destinations, building capacity of local people, to integrating culture into development to support the local economy. These actions are also applied in the Regency of Purwakarta (Indonesia). What unique is …
Regent Anne Ratna Mustika of Purwakarta: Local Economic Development, Fairness for All Read More »
9-10 June 2022 | UCLG ASPAC and Xi’an Municipal Government organised an International Forum “Join Hands to Build Robust, Green, and Balanced Cities for the Future,” back-to-back with the First Session of UCLG ASPAC Executive Bureau Meeting 2022. The Forum came at the right time as it provided valuable insights from distinguished local leaders for …
Makati’s Next Level of Disaster Preparedness by “Making Disaster Resilience as a Way of Life” Makati is one of the densely populated cities in Metro Manila of the Phillippines. This city had been affected by hydrometeorological hazards, which caused impactful damage. A total of 90.200 people were left with inundated houses, with 162.977 square kilometres …
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the cascading nature of risk with more than 500 million confirmed cases and over 6 million confirmed deaths over the course of 2 years. The COVID-19 pandemic has also exposed the vulnerability and inequity in our society and our associated system, such as how health services system has irrefutably worsened. …
Learning from COVID-19: Social and Economic Recovery for All Read More »
The COP26 held last November has produced a pessimistic outcome, namely hope for the achievement of sustainable development and overall resilience. This shows howreal action planning is needed. Moreover, the increasing impact of the climate emergency that almost violates the 1.5 C bar limit indicates that there is a need to improve on Disaster Risk …
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The undeniability of climate impacts requires us to really recalibrate the way we work and make sense of existing norms. According to the recent IPCC reports and the Global Assessment Report, it was made clear that climate impacts will further intensify. That itself is a risk and for better risk reduction, there is a need …
The COVID-19 pandemic was so unprecedented that national and local governments had to rethink the entirety of their strategies in handling the impacts of disasters. It has also revealed how the prevention of disasters have been somewhat of a second-thought, followed by building overall resilience. At the same time, we are still hit by the …
May 2022 | Recently, Director Wu Dan of the Foreign Affairs Office joined a cloud meeting with Mr. Ramon Tejedor, General Manager of the Aragón Exterior, and Rafael Llopis Baeza, Deputy Manager of the Foreign Investment Office and Chief Representative of the Aragón Representative Office in Shanghai. Director Wu Dan shared her expectation that on …
Namyangju City is located in the Northeast Gyeonggi-do, the Republic of Korea (about 18 km northeast of Seoul). Its area is approximately 3/4 of Seoul and home to 730,000 residents. For Namyangju, environment has a lot to do with the city’s future survival. It is reflected on one of the city’s core-values: “environmental innovation.” Namyangju …
Namyangju City: Ice Pack Recycling Practice, Initiative for the Environment Read More »
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