Green Development Strategy of Asia-Pacific Cities

In the past century, the city has become the main residence of mankind. According to statistics from the United Nations, 15% of the world’s 1.5 billion people lived in cities in 1900. By 2000, 47% of the world’s 6 billion people lived in cities. Beijing, Tokyo, Delhi and London had a population of about 1 million in 1900. By 2000, there were 100 cities with a population between 1 million and 10 million, and there were 20 metropolises with a population over 10 million. It is estimated that by 2030, 60% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. Among them, the cities in the Asia-Pacific region are developing more rapidly. The world is experiencing a new round of turbulence, and the economic recovery is still a long way off. The Asia-Pacific region is the geoeconomic sector with the most growth potential and development potential, and it is also recognized as the engine of world economic growth. However, the cities in the Asia-Pacific region are also facing challenges and risks; in many cities, the task of economic transformation and upgrading and structural adjustment is arduous, and the endogenous growth momentum is insufficient, and some cities are still facing the risk of middle-income trap. It not only has important strategic significance for the Asia-Pacific region but also has a profound impact on the world’s urbanization and economic development pattern for the cities in the Asia-Pacific region to choose what kind of development path and whether they can achieve green development? At present, all the countries in the world are promoting the implementation of the fair, inclusive and sustainable Post-2015 Development Agenda on the basis of summarizing the experience of the Millennium Development Goals. At a new historical starting point, although the opportunities and challenges are different, the problems of resources and environment and social equity are the common development problems faced by the Asia-Pacific cities, and no country or city can survive in global resources and environment degradation and social unrest. Green development constitutes the common development needs, development aspirations and development responsibilities of the cities in the Asia-Pacific region, and it is necessary for these cities to re-examine their own development trend, clear green development goals and form a development path, and jointly promote the green development of the region and the whole world.