On 26 May, an international forum with numerous guests was held at the Tongji-Huangyan Rural Revitalization Institute in Shatan Village in the Huangyan-Taizhou region of Zheijang Province. Under the title "Rural Revitalization Entering a New Stage", the event addressed scientific and practical approaches of current rural revitalization projects in China and beyond. Partners of the Urban-Rural Assembly (URA) project had the opportunity to contribute with their on-going research and development results. Besides a lecture by the project lead Prof. Dr. Philipp Misselwitz (TU Berlin, Habitat Unit), Prof. Dr. Weixiang WU and Dr. Yuting XIE (Zhejiang University), Dr. Yong LIU (Shanghai University) and Dr. Huang Huang (Tongji University, CAUP) from the URA project were present. The forum was opened by representatives of the Taizhou Municipal government and the local Huangyan government.

Welcome Speech

Weiyi CHEN, Officer from Taizhou Municipal government, Zhejiang Province

Shunfu BAO, Director of Huangyan Local government, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province

Huizhi GENG, Vice Dean/ Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Keynote Speaker

9.50-10.35
Prof. Bingzhao CHEN: Plan, Revitalization

Consultant of Urban Planning Society of China, Professor of Tongji University, Former Dean of College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP)

10:35-11:20
Hao GU: Village Planning under Territory Spatial Planning

Deputy Director of Department of Natural Resources, Zhejiang Province

11:20-11:50
Discussion

Moderation - Guiqing YANG, Professor at Tongji University, Executive director of Tongji-Huangyan Rural Revitalization Institute

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

Invited Speaker 

13:30-13:50

Qianhu CHEN: “Champions of the Earth Award”— Practice and Exploration of Comprehensive Rural Revitalization in Zhejiang Province

Dean of School of Design and Architecture Zhejiang University of Technology

13:50-14:10
Yong LIU: Evaluation and Thinking on the Implementation of ‘Rural Future Community Construction’

Assistant to the Dean of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Dean of Architecture Department, Shanghai University

14:10-14:30
Weixiang WU: Rural Revitalization Requirements for the Classification and Reduction of Waste Resources in Villages and Towns

14:30-15:00
Discussion

Moderation - Guiqing YANG, Professor of Tongji University, Executive director of Tongji-Huangyan Rural Revitalization Institue

15:15-15:45
Philipp Misselwitz: From urban-rural (dis-)continuities to sustainable urban-rural resource regions — a global challenge

Chair of the Habitat Unit - Department of International Urbanism and Design at TU Berlin, Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg and partner of the Berlin planning group Urban Catalyst

15:45-16:45
Huang HUANG: The New Context of Rural Development in Germany and Its Enlightenment to Rural Revitalization in China

Assistant Professor at College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Tongji University

16:05-16:25
Yuting XIE: Urban-rural Integration Path in the context of Yangtze River Delta Integration: Jiangnan Park Regional Design Project

Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Zhejiang Universtiy

16:25-16:45
Discussion

Moderation - Qianfu CHEN, Dean of School of Design and Architecture Zhejiang University of Technology