Tianjin Eco-City

The world is getting smaller as populations are booming and technology is improving. The answer may be found in whole cities being designed as this concept. 45 kilometres from Tianjin City and 150 kilometres from the Chinese capital of Beijing, the site of the Tianjin Eco-City is a fascinating, 30 sq km development designed to showcase the hottest new green technologies and to serve as a model for future developing Chinese cities. The Tianjin Eco-city is the result of a collaborative agreement between the governments of China and Singapore to jointly develop a socially harmonious, environmentally friendly and resource-conserving city in China. 
Designed by Surbana Urban Planning Group, the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city will be home to about 350,000 residents. Eco-City will make use of the latest sustainable technologies such as solar power, wind power, rainwater recycling, and wastewater treatment/desalination of sea water. In order to reduce the city’s carbon emissions, the city will have an advanced light rail transit system. The project is based on nine essential environmentally friendly concepts: energy efficiency, green buildings, green transportation, ecologically friendly, water management, waste management, economic vibrancy, social harmony, heritage conservation. 

Featuring beautiful public green spaces and varied eco-landscapes, the city will be divided into seven distinct sectors – a Lifescape, an Eco-Valley, a Solarscape, an Urbanscape, a Windscape, an Earthscape and Eco-Corridors. Residents will also have good access to facilities like schools, socio-communal facilities, medical care, parks etc.

The groundbreaking ceremony of the Tianjin Eco-city was held on 28 Sep 2008. Singapore Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao officiated at the event, signifying the beginning of construction work on the Eco-city. It is to take 10-15 years to be completed by 2020.