Shaun Topham from the EU Forum presents at the University of Glasgow's Commonwealth Future Cities Business Networking event on the 24th July 2014

1. 1
EU-China Smart Cities
Cooperation

2. EU-China Sectoral Dialogues
Relations between the EU and China have intensified in recent years, partly
as a consequence of China’s economic growth and increasing importance on
the world stage. China’s rapid development has had an effect in a wide variety
of sectors.
Sectoral dialogues have helped to develop a solid foundation for the EU-
China relationship which is now characterised by increasingly close policy co-
ordination in many important areas. The European Union strongly encourages
these dialogues, which are an important area of support to the overall
relationship with China.
The dialogues constitute an effective tool for further widening and deepening
EU relations with China, for exploring new areas of common interest, for
exchanging know-how, and, especially in the area of economic reform, EU
models and best practices.
Sectoral Dialogues cover a wide spectrum of fields and sectors, like Education
and Culture, Environment, Energy, Employment and Social Affairs,
Information Society, Public Health, Agriculture, Regional Policy, Food Safety
etc.

3. Structure of EU-China Policy Dialogues
Strategic
 Regional & global issues
 Legal issues and rule of law
 Sustainable urbanisation
partnership
 China Europe Water
Platform
People-to-People
 Higher education
cooperation
 Culture
 Youth work
 Business management
Trade & Economic
 Agriculture & rural
development
 Public health & food safety
 Transport, civil aviation,
maritime, logistics
 ICTs and Science &
Technology
 Environment, climate
change
 Trade working groups
EU-China Summit
High-Level Dialogues
Brussels, 19 June 2013

4. 3rd ICT Dialogue meeting
At the end of 2011 in Chengdu, in the context of the 3rd ICT
Dialogue Meeting between the Ministry of Industry &
Information Technology (MIIT) and the European Commission's
DG CONNECT), Vice Minister Yang Xueshan and Deputy Director
General Zoran Stančič jointly determined to:
• Develop “Green Smart City” cooperation;
• Establish an expert framework for promoting EU-China smart
cities cooperation;
• Select pilot cities from China and the EU; and
• Establish a technical expert group to carry out related
research and cooperation.
• Cooperation plan started from 2012
• Supported by PDSF 2013 – 2014

5. Overview of EU-China Smartcities
project
• The Chinese Ministry of Industry & Information
Technology (MIIT) and the EU Commission’s DG
CNECT has established the EU-China Smart Cities
Cooperation.
• The objectives of this project are:
– to foster knowledge exchange of good practice;
and
– to develop a roadmap for future collaboration
between the EU and China on Smart City
Developments

6. What the EU cities are contributing
Pilot cities will have the opportunity to:
• Demonstrate their achievements as a Smart City in the EU-
China comparative good practice report on Smart City
development.
• The pilot cities have provided information about their smart
city strategy, governance structures, technology utilisation,
business models, smart city services, and other factors that
have contributed to the success of their smart city
developments to share with their Chinese counterparts
• The EU-China Comparative Good Practice Report was based
on this feedback. With CONCRETE recommendations for
follow-up which will form part of the blue print for what we
will do next after April 2014.
• Tasked with writing a White Paper which made a series of
recommendations.
• Available on www.eu-chinasmartcities.eu

7. The Project will influence-
• As of September 2013, a total of 311 cities in
China have proposed or are embarking on
smart city development, including all cities
above the sub-provincial-level, 89% cities at
the prefectural-level and above, and 47%
cities at the county-level and above.
• During the “Twelfth Five-year Plan” period,
the plan investment in Chinese smart cities is
expected to be more than 1.6 trillion Yuan.

8. UK-China Smart Cities Project
This is funded by the FCO and co-ordinated from
the Beijing Embassy through the Prosperity Fund
Led by Manchester and Bristol and is aimed at
securing a leading role in the future
developments of the EU-China Smartcities
project.

9. Websites
For more background information on this
activity and the project implementing it, please
see the website of the EU-China Policy Dialogue
Facility:
http://www.eu-chinapdsf.org/
http://eu-chinasmartcities.eu
http://www.uk-china.org
Contact: Shaun.Topham@EU-Forum.org