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GTZ Project Highlight: Chreod completes Shanghai Global-city Strategy

2009-09-05

Shanghai’s rapid evolution into a post-industrial metropolis is transforming the city’s economy, social system and culture, and the metropolis’ linkages globally and with the wider Yangtze Delta Region, China’s principal engine of economic growth. The Cities Alliance provided grant financing to GTZ, the German Development Corporation, to conduct a strategic assessment of Shanghai’s global potentials for the Shanghai Development Research Center (SDRC), the government’s top policy think-tank. Chreod and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences were retained to jointly conduct the work over a two-year period.

Chreod and SHASS presented key findings of their final report at a closing workshop in Shanghai in August that was attended by senior officials of the Shanghai Municipal Government, The Cities Alliance, GTZ, and local business and academic leaders. The final report will be published by GTZ and SDRC in early 2010.