China-US Housing Demonstration Project Starts in Beijing

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China-US Housing Demonstration Project Starts in Beijing

A typical New York-style housing project will be built in Beijing under a project jointly sponsored by the Chinese and US governments which was launched Saturday in Beijing.

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A typical New York-style housing project will be built in Beijing under a project jointly sponsored by the Chinese and US governments which was launched Saturday in Beijing.

Shen Jianzhong, deputy director of the department of housing and real estate industry of the Ministry of Construction (MOC), told the opening ceremony that it marked a new step in the housing cooperation between the two governments.

Chinese and U.S. authorities have chosen two housing districts in Beijing and Shanghai as the basis for housing cooperation, under the "construction agreement of the China-U.S. housing industrial demonstration" signed by the MOC and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in May, 2000.

Huang Jiankun, head of the project, announced that Beijing's Longzeyuan district had invited top New York architect Frank Williams and the eldest son of famous architect Ieoh Ming Pei, who is also an American urban planning architect to work on the project. The district landscape and community building were also drawn up by noted U.S. designers.

Shen hoped the district would set an example for future housing styles in China in the 21st century, and play an important role in initiating housing improvements and living environments for the Chinese people.

Thomas Lee Boam, minister counselor of the U.S. Embassy in China, expressed his hope that cooperation between the Chinese and U.S. governments would expand, especially in the housing area.

China and the U.S. first mooted cooperation on housing in June 1998, when former U.S. President Bill Clinton held talks with Chinese President Jiang Zemin during a visit to China.

The MOC made a series of consultations with the U.S. Department of Commerce and Department of Housing and Urban Development before both sides signed a formal entente memo on housing cooperation in 1999 and a housing industrial demonstration in 2000.

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