Zhuhai in Foreigners' Eyes

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Zhuhai in foreigners’ eyes:

Zhuhai has beautiful natural environment. It preserves the coastal ecologic system, and provides a great living environment for the people who work and live here. It is a blue and green city.

-- Daniel Ringelstein, director of Urban Design & Planning, (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, American architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm)

Zhuhai has great economic potential. It has an established industry, beautiful environment, and solid urban planning.

-- Peter Calthorpe, principal of Calthorpe Associates (American leader in regional planning, urban design and architecture)

Zhuhai has the Fisher Maiden, while Copenhagen has the Little Mermaid. I think Zhuhai is similar to Copenhagen in a way: it is a romantic city.

-- Erik Holm-Petersen, executive director, Information Technology & Telecommunication, Carl Bro Group (international technical consultancy), expert at UN World Tourism Organization

The sea is very beautiful in Zhuhai. It stacks up against any other city in China.

-- Steven Townsend, director of Urban Design & Planning, Gensler (Most Admired Firm in 2014 by World Architecture and one of the Top 5 Most Admired ‘Global Firms’ by Interior Design in 2014)

When I first saw Zhuhai, I immediately felt that it would become a brilliant pearl in South China.

-- Yoshiki Toda – Yoshiki Toda Landscape & Architect Co (Faculty of Landscaping Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture; Registered Landscape Architect; 1st Class Landscape Construction Management Engineer)

Zhuhai in international media

The Daily Telegraph, a British daily morning newspaper:

Analysts attributed the growing popularity of Zhuhai to the headway it has made in ecological development as well as to the city’s strategy of scientific development. Zhuhai has pushed for the construction of a cloud computing data center and a comprehensive traffic information platform to shape itself into a smart city.

Le Figaro, French daily newspaper:

Zhuhai has merged its industrial competitiveness with its positioning as a new Special Zone of Conservation Culture and a Demo City of Scientific Development Concept, which coincides with the Belt and Road Initiative and the “Made in China 2025” plan.

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