The Expo includes three world-class themed activities and ove a hundred round-tables, technical seminars, salons, forums among others, which will attract 5,000 first-tier real estate developer, 3,000 architects, and over 10,000 projects contractors and government departments involved in public buildings.

Eco City Summit
As a world-class gathering, the forum will offer, under the guidance of the country, a platform for nongovernmental actors. This event is inspired by a strong sense of mission for the public benefit. It will bring together industry elites, academics, NGO leaders from China and abroad to work together and promote the concept of sustainable development. It also lays a good foundation to help elaborate and promote national green policies.

The Society of Entrepreneurs & Ecology (SEE) Green Homeland Special Fund will hold its annual meeting as part of the ECO City Forum. Entrepreneurs from real estate development, construction engineering, building materials and building technology industries, representing the main drivers and executors of eco-cities planning, will attend the forum.

Participants: officials of international organizations, academics, city mayors from China and abroad, urban planning officials, construction entrepreneurs and NGO leaders.


The Sustainable Integrated Real Estate Conference
It will focus on city complex development – a topic closely linked to urbanization. Participants from government planning departments, the real estate industry, the urban complex design, planning and operation part as well as entertainment, culture.


Shanghai Architecture Festival
This is the gathering event for outstanding architects. Furthermore, this event ambitions at becoming a source of inspiration for the eco-trend in construction. Shanghai International Architecture Festival is the world's first eco-themed architects gala. It builds a high-end platform for networking and exchanges in China, a hot spot for international architects. Shanghai International Architecture Festival is the Cannes Festival for the construction industry. It will also pay tribute to each outstanding eco-architect that has contributed to ecological buildings design.

The International Forum of Shanghai International Architecture Festival will invite three internationally renowned master architects, together with ten international and Chinese outstanding architects, to deliver lectures and answer participants' questions. An exhibition area will also feature the masters' signature designs within the premises of the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. Finally the masters will also serve as judges for the Festival Awards.

The Architecture Festival Section will also include a "A20 committee" made up of 20 important domestic architects design firms. A dedicated display area will display these local firms cutting-edge design concepts and ecological aesthetics ideas, covering themes such as urban complexes, commercial space, Oriental gardens among others.

Dozens of architecture salons, themed round tables, and various exchanges between real estate developers and architects will be held throughout the Festival. They will offer architects a unique opportunity to exchange ideas, share experiences, showcase their talents and gather contacts.Participants: developers, architects, landscape designers, etc.

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