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On May 5, 2005, "2010 Sino-France Forum on Architectural and Urban Development" was opened in Tongji University in Shanghai. The forum attracted more than 1,000 architects and urban planning engineers from China, France, the UK and Italy, etc.
This forum is a review and summary of the training program "150 Chinese architects in France" initiated jointly by Chinese President JIANG Zemin and French President Chirac in 1997. It is also an important activity of the "Sino-French Cultural Year". As the department in charge of this training program on the Chinese side, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has offered vigorous support to this forum.
Over a
dozen world famous great masters of architecture from China, France,
Switzerland and Italy delivered theme reports at the forum. Such hot
topics as Sustainable Development, Protection of Architectural
Heritages, Modernity of Urban Architecture, Planning for the 2008
Olympic Games and the 2010 World Expo were discussed. This forum is a
large-scale gathering of the architectural community. Tongji univ. 2005.5.16
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