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ABSTRACT:
ISSUE NOTE 2002-3
Remarks at Closing Session of National CDS Conference by Edward Leman, President
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Chreod was retained by the World Bank, on behalf of the Cities Alliance, to prepare the first country-specific City Development Strategies for China. Chreod associated with the Urban Institute of Washington DC and the International Centre for Sustainable Cities in Vancouver to conduct this assignment which prepared development strategies for the metropolitan regions of Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, and Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province. Working closely with municipal governments, the Team focused on developing realistic strategies to: 1) improve the linkage between economic development planning and infrastructure planning; and 2) improve the capacities of municipalities and their infrastructure companies to finance long-term infrastructure development in sound and equitable ways.
This assignment was part of a worldwide program of preparing City Development Strategies under the auspices of The Cities Alliance, a global coalition of cities and their development partners designed to achieve the promise of well managed cities. Launched in 1999 by Jim Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, and Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of UNCHS (Habitat), the Alliance aims to improve the efficiency and impact of urban development cooperation in two key areas: 1) linking the process by which local stakeholders define their vision for their city, analyze its economic prospects and establish a city development strategy and priorities for action; and 2) making unprecedented improvements in the living conditions of the urban poor by supporting urban regeneration at citywide and nationwide scales of action.
The China CDS project ended with a national conference held in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, from 22-23 January 2002. Participants included all of the four cities involved in the project, representatives from four municipal governments who will be participating in the next round of CDS development in China, representatives from the State Development Planning Commission, State Council Development Research Center, Ministry of Construction, and Ministry of Natural Resources and Land, academics and researchers from institutes and universities in Beijing and Tianjin, and staff from the World Bank and JBIC.
This Issues Note is the closing address at this conference made by Edward Leman, President of Chreod. Ltd., and outlines some key issues that governments participating in the next CDS round should address early in the strategic planning process.
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