Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is a strategic cooperation project between China and Singapore to improve the living environment and build an eco-culture. The project is conceived to reflect strong determination of both countries in combating climate change, enhancing environment as well as saving resources and energy.
The Tianjin Eco-city seeks to address the challenge of sustainable development in a holistic and balanced manner, with this aim underpinned by the concept of man living in harmony with his fellow man, with the economy and with the environment. All buildings in the eco-city will conform to green building standards to ensure efficient energy usage. The use of clean and renewable energy, such as wind and solar energy, will be promoted in the eco-city. An energy-conservation and environment-friendly mindset will also be cultivated in its residents.
The use of clean fuel and renewable energy such as solar energy and geothermal energy will be explored. The eco-city will draw on waste heat from a major nearby power plant to provide district heating.
Expected to house 350,000 residents in Tianjin, the city will be divided in seven sectors. These different regions will be different in terms of landscaping and programmatic offerings. Lifescape, consisting of a series of soil-topped mounds that will offset the towering apartment buildings of the other communities ; Eco-Valley, an 11-kilometer long man-made channel; Solarscape, the administrative and civic center of the Eco-City; Urbanscape, the core of the Eco-City, featuring stacked programs interconnected by sky-bridges at multiple levels to make efficient use of vertical space, resembling a multi-layered honeycomb; Windscape, the hub for a light rail system as well as an area of public parks; Earthscape, suburb of the city, with stepped architecture maximizing public green space; and Eco-Corridors are the various sectors.
Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city has applied the planning concept of eco-economy, eco-residence, eco-culture, harmonious community and scientific management. By integrating advanced ecological, environmental protection, and energy-saving techniques, it will create a natural, harmonious and livable human residence, and thus commit itself to constructing an eco-city that is economically vibrant, environmentally friendly, resource-efficient and socially harmonious. The groundbreaking ceremony of the Eco-city project was held on 28 September 2008.
