The Management Committee of the Taicang High-tech Industrial development Zone and the Hamburg Liaison Office Shanghai jointly hosted the Sino-German Sustainable Development Forum that took place in Shanghai on the afternoon of June 5.

Representatives of more than 40 Chinese and European enterprises attended the event.

Mao Yaping, head of the management committee, said that the total added value of industrial enterprises above the designated size in the zone reached 78.393 billion yuan in the period from January to August last year, up 7.1% year-on-year, while the energy consumption per unit of added value in the zone was 0.023 tonnes of standard coal per 10,000 yuan, down 20.5% year-on-year.

Taicang, a small city in Jiangsu, is near Shanghai and along the Yangtze River. since 1990s, it has become home of nearly 500 German enterprises. The high-tech zone has proactively responded to the domestic goals of achieving carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. It has made efforts to create an industry park featuring low carbon emissions. The zone has been at the forefront of industrial parks in Jiangsu and even nationwide in terms of the energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP), layout of green industries, and pollution emissions. 

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