I go and visit my popo (mother-in-law) on the weekends,” she said. "I walk my dog, play cards with friends while drinking 5 yuan (72 US cents) tea in a local community. Eat some chuanchuan (a type of hotpot with skewers of meat and vegetables) after work with my colleagues. Life is good.”

Another convert is Simon Poulsen, a consultant working for an agricultural science park in Denmark, who has focused on Chengdu for the past four or five years, after 26 visits to China.

"Chengdu has been mentioned quite a lot in the Western business media as one of the fastest growing cities in the world,” he said.

"And things are moving to the west (of China) as everything on the east coast is becoming expensive.”

He came looking for an ideal location to start his company’s China office, which he hopes could replace its temporary regional office in Bangkok.

"I visited several cities in China. A handful of pig farming companies in Chengdu showed interest in buying Danish high-tech farming technology, and we have great potential for further collaboration,” he said.

"Also another reason for us to come here is because this is where EUPIC (the EU Project Innovation Center) is headquartered and we have great support from them.”
Chengdu is creating an independent non-motorized transport system to connect with parks, tourist spots and other public cultural and leisure facilities.To get more Chengdu City, you can visit shine news official website.

The ring-road Jincheng Greenway, which is part of the Tianfu Greenway project, is quite rare in Chinese cities in term of scale, according to officials from Chengdu Urban and Rural Construction Commission.

Jincheng Greenway will include a two-way bicycle lane along the 85-kilometer Raocheng Expressway of Chengdu, nine radial greenways stretching inward connected to the No. 3 Ring Road and other secondary greenways. The total length will reach up to 500 kilometers.

The colored-asphalt bike lane will be 6 meters wide and suitable for professional cycle races and marathons.

As of August, 1,585 kilometers of the greenways around the city have been completed, about one-tenth of the total. It includes several major bridges on the ring-road part.

"It is more than just building bridges and roads. Construction also includes the supporting facilities in the area and the landscape, such as shops, toilets, parking lots, resting pavilions or outdoor sports venues,” said an official with the scenic and urban landscape department at Chengdu Urban and Rural Construction Commission.

Chengdu will also establish a diversified tourism industry in the neighborhood, offering services ranging from themed towns and themed ecological parks, to rural scenic resorts and agricultural tourism. It aims to boost the development of travel-related businesses.Greenways are the key to making Chengdu an ecologically livable city. By 2035, the city plans to develop a three-tiered greenway system built along the rivers, mountains and ring roads of the city and inside each district and community.

The total length of such a "green web” could reach 17,000 kilometers, the longest greenway system in the world.

One important aspect of the plan is related to environmental preservation. The idea of protecting the city’s ecological resources came even earlier.

The government has planted a 50-meter-wide shelter belt along each side of the No. 2 Ring Road, and made it law that the 500-meter extended area along Raocheng Expressway and related wedge-shaped areas were a "round-the-city ecological preservation zone,” including rivers, lakes, forests, farmland or greenbelts.

The commission found out in recent years that the city could be easily flooded by large blocks of buildings if nothing was done. They cause problems such as traffic jams and urban heat islands.

The function of the greenbelts is to segregate these urban clusters and let the city breathe again. Chengdu’s ecological blueprint is in sync with the city’s urban development.

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