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In the year 2000 the Italian
Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea (IMELS)
launched the Sino-Italian Cooperation Program
for Environmental Protection together with the
State Environmental Protection Administration of
China (SEPA). The goal was to help China to
improve her environment, support her sustainable
development and promote the cooperation between
enterprises of the two countries. In the
following years, the Italian side has expanded
the cooperation to other Chinese government
bodies and acdemic institutions, Universities--
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the
People's Government of Beijing Municipality, the
Shanghai and Tianjin Municipality, the National
Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of
China, the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) and
the State Forestry Administration (SFA).
Over the past eight years, IMELS has implemented
80 projects in China in collaboration with the
Chinese Government departments, universities,
research institutes and enterprises. Through
pilot projects, cooperative research and
environmental protection capacity building, it
covered a number of fields in the sustainable
development. (1) Energy Efficiency, Clean Energy
& Renewable Energy; (2) Assist China to
implement international conventions about the
environment; (3) Air Monitoring; (4) Urban
Sustainable Development & Eco-building; (5)
Waste Recycle; (6) Sustainable Transportation;
(7) Integrated Management on Water Resources;
(8) Eco Conservation & Sand Control; (9)
Sustainable Agriculture; (10) Capacity Building
for Environmental Protection.
In the pilot projects, IMELS and the Chinese
partners are striving to bring to China the
advanced technologies, equipments and
methodologies from Italy and the world. The
projects were useful to present these
technologies in different regions and sectors
adapting them to the different local
circumstances. The technologies and approaches
adopted in the pilot projects are more advanced
than the ones presently used in China or in
Italy. The cooperation has thus become a
laboratory where Italy and China can develop or
upgrade new environmental protocols. The
investment in the pilot projects accounts for
75% of the Sino-Italian Cooperation Program for
Environmental Protection.
Cooperative research is another important part
of the Sino-Italian Cooperation Program. It
includes a study for the research program and
its commercial feasibility. This research
analyzes Chinese environmental situations and
their impact on the various aspects of the
social and economic development. Its goal is to
provide suggestions and solutions for China's
environmental problems...
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