China's City of the Future

At a construction site in northern China, a billboard boasts of a "liveable city" where residents can drink tap water, travel on clean energy public transport and enjoy acres of parkland.

For now, the ambitious "eco-city" covering 30 square kilometers of non-arable salt pans and former fishing villages has more cranes than wind turbines and will not be finished for at least another decade.

But its developers hope the settlement near the port city of Tianjin will serve as an ultra-efficient alternative to ill-planned and heavily polluting mega-cities not only elsewhere in the country, but around the world.

Changing the environment

"We hope to influence our neighbors," said Goh Chye Boon, chief executive of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Investment & Development.

"With the right ingredients, with the right eco mindset, I think together we can change the environment." READ MORE >>

via business.globaltimes.cn