On April 16th, 2021, the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce organized, together with the Embassy of Italy in Beijing and ITA – Italian Trade Agency, the conference “Italy-China: Energy Transition – Towards a Sustainable Development”.
The event, organized in conjunction with the Fourth Edition of Day of Italian Research in the World and in the framework of the Italian co-presidency of COP26, was held both online and offline at the Rosewood Hotel Beijing.
The conference was structured in three thematic panels. This is the video of the third panel: “Roadmap to 2030 – New Energy for Smart Cities”.
Smart city and digital infrastructure investments are addressed to make China one of the worldwide most advanced country for the level of digitalization and IT density. The pandemic shock has produced such a scale-up of so many technologies, processes, ways of working, learning, teaching, traveling and not traveling, that will make the “new normal” to become a “new diversity”. Are we only at the beginning of a change in lifestyle and consumer trends? Maybe nothing will be the same as before. It will simply be “different”. However, what is a smart city in reality? Is it a city with more digital and IT density, ot it is something more? Definitely it is something more.
The third panel explored the role of energy for a smart city. Energy is one of the dimensions of a smart city, perhaps the most difficult and challenging to deal with. Surely a smart city of the future must be a sustainable and low-energy city. But how to achieve this? And how to understand the “new paradigm” which has emerged with the pandemic crisis? In front of these and other questions, there were the China Chief Representative Officer of ENEL, Salvatore Miranti; General Manager of HEPT, Shen Jie; General Manager of Stefano Boeri Architetti China, Xu Yibo; and Yan Da, professor at Tsinghua University (Department of building science and technology). The debate was moderated by Roberto Pagani, Scientific Attaché of Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai.
On April 16th, 2021, the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce organized, together with the Embassy of Italy in Beijing and ITA –
On April 16th, 2021, the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce organized, together with the Embassy of Italy in Beijing and ITA –
