Green China III

The project GREEN CHINA III was dedicated to the topic of sustainable urban regeneration in China and the question of how German architects and urban planners and Chinese cities can benefit from cooperations in this field. The aim of the project was to continue and deepen the exchange of knowledge on strategies for sustainable urban development and regeneration between German and Chinese stakeholders initiated in the previous projects GREEN CHINA I and II. To this end, a four-week digital "Sino-German City Lab" was designed in which German architects and urban planners and Chinese city representatives as well as industry experts exchanged their experiences and expertise in sustainable urban regeneration in the form of videos, podcasts, articles and live webinars. Through their participation in the City Lab, Chinese cities received development and revitalization strategies for fallow or underdeveloped neighbourhoods. They learned which measures could be implemented with German support and what experience German architects have had with urban renewal projects. The aim was to further promote and support the establishment of environmental technologies and standards on the Chinese market. For their part, the German participants of the City Lab learned what developments there have been in the field of sustainable urban renewal in China since the GREEN CHINA II project in 2018, what new political frameworks have been established and what needs have developed on the Chinese side since then. Through the exchange with Chinese city representatives, they also learned how to meet these needs. In the project, the increasing technical concretization and stronger practical orientation of the predecessor projects was continued and existing contacts were intensified as well as new contacts were established.