Climate-change policyHydrologyEarth SciencesgeneralChina's national Sponge City Program promotes the integration of green–grey–blue infrastructure for sustainable urban-water governance. However, recent record-breaking flood events have called the efficacy of the programme into question, illustrating the ...
With ambitions to be China’s largest sponge city project,the Lingang city government has invested US$119 millionin retrofits and innovations that could be a model for the majority of Chinese cities lacking modern water infrastructure. Chinese cities are making noteworthy efforts. In a pledge ...
China's Sponge City programme aims to improve resilience to urban expansion and climate change by enabling cities to save and resupply rainwater. It is crucial for cities such as Beijing and Jinan, which suffer water shortages even after severe flooding. However, several hurdles must be overcome ...
This project is of key significance to the successful construction of Chongqing sponge city and will be the first of China’s 30 sponge cities to have a smart storm water control system. 18.67 sq. km surface area of AQUADVANCED® urban drainage system (pha...
Arcadis will provide technical, policy, program management and advisory solutions to the Wuhan sponge city programme.
Sponge city policy purifies and beautifies the cities, improves city quality and enhances public people’s happiness (WU and QIN, 2019). Table 1 shows the strategic plans in China from 2013 to 2022. 2.3. Sponge city for climate change in China The Chinese government attached great importance ...
The concept was adopted as a national policy in China in 2013, prioritizing large-scale nature-based infrastructures such as wetlands, greenways, parks, canopy tree and woodland protection, rain gardens, green roofs, permeable pavements, and bioswales. Yu has been selected by the international ...
Hangzhou is at the forefront of China's sponge city initiative, recently earning an A grade in the national performance evaluation for sponge city construction, local media outlets reported.
into the soil before it can flow into urban streets, therefore providing a water-resilient threshold. In the past two decades, the model has gained huge support in his home country of China, and today Yu and his team have completed some 500 sponge city projects in cities around the world....
With the rapid development of urbanization in China, the urban waterlogging is becoming more and more serious. To solve this problem, China proposed the policy of building a sponge city. The construction of sponge city, especially the LID facilities, is