The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next urbanisation series event with World Bank Lead Urban Specialist Mr. Paul Procee.

The World Bank and the State Council’s Development Research Centre have published an urbanisation report on 25th March 2014, which lays out a comprehensive reform agenda to make China’s urbanisation more efficient, inclusive and sustainable. The report recommends that China tackle environmental degradation and other strains of rapid urbanisation by systematically changing how it allocates land, people and capital across the country.

At the event, Mr. Paul Procee will present the key findings, recommendations and statistics of the urbanisation report. This joint publication was prepared over a period of 14 months, with interim reports continually shared with China’s top policymakers as input to government discussions on urbanisation, providing a critical foundation for the formulation of policies on China’s new model of urbanisation.

Mr. Paul Procee is an environmental engineer with 18 years of experience in urban environmental and infrastructure management. Since joining the World Bank in 1999, he has worked on a wide range of projects related to urban infrastructure, water supply, sanitation, solid waste, transport, and disaster risk management. He moved from the World Bank’s Latin America regional office to its China office in Beijing in 2010, where he coordinates the urban infrastructure and water project portfolio, including urban environment and disaster risk management activities. He also manages the Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery Project and a number of flood control projects.

Agenda
4:30-4:40 - welcome remarks, Ms. Lucy Shi, Chair, Construction Working Group
4:40-5:20 - presentation, Mr. Paul Procee, Lead Urban Specialist, The World Bank
5:20-6:00 - Q&A session

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