🪆 Guangzhou International Award For Urban Innovation 2018

The City of Guangzhou has the honor to inform the urban community that submission is now open for the fourth 2018 Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation Guangzhou Award.We would like to invite you to join us if your city or region is putting in place any initiatives under themes highlighted in Sustainable Development Goals especially SDG 11 and New Urban Agenda. For the New Urban Agenda, special focus is being placed on urban planning and design, financing urban development, access to affordable housing, infrastructure, and want the world to learn from your experience in implementing the global agendas. Please share your wisdom with us and submit your initiatives online at by August 31, 2018."The Guangzhou Award is not only the way to showcase excellence in cities around the world," commented Mr. Josep Roig, former Secretary General of the United Cities and Local Governments UCLG, "but should also foster exchanges and learning."Initiated in 2012, the Guangzhou Award is sponsored by City of Guangzhou, UCLG and World Association of the Major Metropolises Metropolis, and aims at advancing the prosperity and quality of life of the citizens of those and other award, presented biennially, has received more than 700 initiatives from 70 plus countries and regions in the past three cycles. It recognizes innovation in improving social, economic, and environmental sustainability in cities and regions, and has provided a platform to share and exchange innovative the last cycle in 2016, five cities/local governments made their way out of 301 applications to the Guangzhou Award, Songpa-gu South Korea, Qalyubeya Egypt, Boston US, Copenhagen Denmark, and La Paz Bolivia, for their outstanding to five winning urban innovative initiatives will be determined by an independent Jury and will be awarded at the Guangzhou International Urban Innovation Conference, to be held in Guangzhou in December, 2018."The most important point of the set-up of the Guangzhou Award is that those awarded cases can inspire other cities and can be applied across various situations," said Mr. Nicholas You, Director of International Programs and Cooperation at Guangzhou Institute for Urban award is developing an ongoing system of learning for cities around the world and encourages new methods to deal with social, economic, and environmental more information about the submission process, please visit

By Edith Mutethya in Nairobi, Kenya Updated 2019-05-30 2153Nicholas You, Executive Director of Guangzhou Institute for Urban InnovationThe Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation has become a vital platform for cities across the world to share best practices and learn from each other on localization of new urban agenda or NUA and sustainable development goals or its fourth edition, the competition has intensified over the years as cities embrace innovation to tackle both existing and new challenges. In 2018, a total of 313 initiatives1 were submitted by 213 cities and regions from over 70 technical committee identified a list of 45 commendable initiatives, followed by a shortlist of 15 initiatives and finally five award-winning the context of the Guangzhou award, urban innovation is defined as the deliberate act of introducing new policies, programs, strategies, business models and types of partnerships to tackle existing and new to Nicholas You, the executive director of Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation, cities are entering into a new era, where they are taking on roles that were traditionally not within their mandate, perhaps due to inability of the existing institutions to respond effectively to local cities are mandated to basically collect garbage, keep streets clean, and manage traffic, You said most of them are currently creating jobs and new institutional frameworks to deal with issues outside the local government mandate."This is an important take away. That implementation of the new urban agenda, and SDGs at the local level, is going to compel many cities to think beyond their traditional mandate," he gave the remarks at a side event in the first UN-Habitat Assembly, where four of the five cities that are the finalists for the 2018 Guangzhou award for Urban Innovation, shared their experiences on localizing NUA and Budworth, CEO of Compass Housing based in Australia, shared how Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, became an eco-friendly city where the 3Rs- recycle, reduce and reuse have become normative city promoted the 3R principles to a poorly educated community unfamiliar with the concepts. This was piloted in Kampung, one of the city's informal the 3R concept, the city-owned buses accept plastic bottles as a form of payment. Through this, Surabaya reduced waste by 10 percent per year even as the city population grew by 5 percent Birch, professor of Urban Research and director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, shared how Mezitli, a coastal Turkish city of nearly 250,000 with 60,000 registered Syrian, established a network of public markets for women women grow agricultural products or make homemade goods from in or around the metropolitan the first market having been opened in 2014, the network has grown to nine markets serving 612 women producers. Their wares range from citrus and tomatoes to jams and Vancutsem, secretary general of the International Society of City and Regional Planners, shared the Italy's Milan city food policy compels the municipal agencies to think about the regional food shed, the geographic radius from where Milan feeds its people, and discusses policy approaches that can encourage a more sustainable food policy considers how food gets from producers to market and whether it's possible to reduce emissions in Katz from Habitat for Humanity International shared the Bolivia's administrative capital La Paz traffic zebras, a citizen culture the program, young creative people show zebra crossing, wearing costumes that emulate a zebra. This is aimed at reducing road said the Mezitli case is being replicated in Southern Syria, while the La Paz case is being replicated in Latin the next 10 years, You said they will document the innovative case studies and bring them to the attention of the national governments."We want a situation where a mayor can go online to find a solution to the challenging his city is experiencing," You said the delegates he interacted with at the UN-Habitat Assembly expressed concerns on how to support local implementation of the new urban agenda and SDGs."Cities need to map out the SDGs against what they are already doing and then look at where the opportunities and gaps lie. That is the starting point," he Saiz, secretary general of the United Cities and Local Government or UCLG, said the new agenda is about cooperation between cities and making the link between the roles that cities need to play in the global agenda."Through localization of the SDGs, we are able to connect the thoughts in a different manner. We are able to identify the areas we have been developing policies on but have not given us the results that we thought and we can identify why. That's why we are bringing this agenda to our members to enable them reshape their priorities," she said innovation is not always about new, but rethinking the methodologies and putting new people around the The original text contains a factual error which has herein been corrected by the Guangzhou Award Secretariat.

The City of Guangzhou has the honor to inform the urban community that submission is now open for the fourth 2018 Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation Guangzhou Award. We would like to invite you to join us if your city or region is putting in place any initiatives under themes highlighted in Sustainable Development Goals especially SDG 11 and New Urban Agenda. For the New Urban Agenda, special focus is being placed on urban planning and design, financing urban development, access to affordable housing, infrastructure, and services. We want the world to learn from your experience in implementing the global agendas. Please share your wisdom with us and submit your initiatives online at by August 31, 2018. "The Guangzhou Award is not only the way to showcase excellence in cities around the world," commented Mr. Josep Roig, former Secretary General of the United Cities and Local Governments UCLG, "but should also foster exchanges and learning." Initiated in 2012, the Guangzhou Award is sponsored by City of Guangzhou, UCLG and World Association of the Major Metropolises Metropolis, and aims at advancing the prosperity and quality of life of the citizens of those and other cities. The award, presented biennially, has received more than 700 initiatives from 70 plus countries and regions in the past three cycles. It recognizes innovation in improving social, economic, and environmental sustainability in cities and regions, and has provided a platform to share and exchange innovative practices. During the last cycle in 2016, five cities/local governments made their way out of 301 applications to the Guangzhou Award, Songpa-gu South Korea, Qalyubeya Egypt, Boston US, Copenhagen Denmark, and La Paz Bolivia, for their outstanding initiatives. Up to five winning urban innovative initiatives will be determined by an independent Jury and will be awarded at the Guangzhou International Urban Innovation Conference, to be held in Guangzhou in December, 2018. "The most important point of the set-up of the Guangzhou Award is that those awarded cases can inspire other cities and can be applied across various situations," said Mr. Nicholas You, Director of International Programs and Cooperation at Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation. The award is developing an ongoing system of learning for cities around the world and encourages new methods to deal with social, economic, and environmental challenges. For more information about the submission process, please visit

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Technical Committee Report of the 5th Guangzhou Award 2021-02-04 Owing to COVID-19 related travel restrictions, the Technical Committee TC met in cyberspace from 1 to 23 December 2020. Its members came from different geographical regions and represent different areas of expertise. … Theyear 2018 begins with the launch of the 4th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation (Guangzhou Award), a platform for the sharing and exchange of successful innovative practices. The Guangzhou Award supports the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and New Urban Agenda (NUA), contributing to the creation of inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements. Milan, Guadalajara, Wuhan, Mezitli, New York City are the winners of the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation. The 2018 edition was held in the framework of the Global Mayors’ Forum & 2018 International Seminar on learning from urban innovation. This award, co-sponsored by United Cities and Local Governments UCLG, Metropolis the Metropolitan section of UCLG and the city of Guangzhou, has become an international event that inspires participants to appreciate the importance of city-to-city learning and cooperation. On December 6, during the International Seminar on Learning from Urban Innovation, there was an opportunity to witness the joint efforts of cities around the world to build a better future, and the results were announced on December 7 during the award ceremony. In this way, Zhiying Chen, Executive Vice Mayor of Guangzhou, addressed that “innovation is crucial for us, but also for future generations and Guangzhou is committed to continue supporting exchanges among cities around the world. We celebrate the success of our partnership with UCLG & Metropolis”. Secretary General of UCLG, Emilia Saiz, said that “local innovation might not get us to Mars but it will ensure community organization in any planet. We need to ensure that human tech is at the heart of our efforts. The Guangzhou Award will be critical for our dialogue with national Governments on SDGs “. Octavi de la Varga, Secretary General of Metropolis, claimed that “UCLG, Metropolis and Guagnzhou have produced results and are favourable to localizing the global agendas.” Nicholas You, Executive Director of the Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation explained how policy process and partnerships are essential for city-to-city learning and cooperation, and to achieve diversity and transformation. From 15 groundbreaking initiatives of cities that shared innovation stories, five winners were awarded The "Rebirth" of Urban Waste Dump – Ecological Treatment and Return of Plurality Wuhan, China The city proposes a new large-scale and integrated approach to the remediation of a brownfield site, place making and local economic development, addressing the needs of the urban poor by providing adequate and affordable housing, access to basic services and new job opportunities for young people. Milan Food Policy An Innovative Framework for Making Urban Food System More Sustainable and Inclusive Milan, Italy This initiative aims to promote a new model of governance between public agencies, social organizations, and the private sector in order to make the sustainable food production and consumption a reality at local and regional level. Citizen-Led Metropolitan Coordination of Guadalajara Guadalajara, Mexico This pilot experience is the first in the Latin American context to propose an undertake strategic metropolitan planning across several municipalities and jurisdictions in a participatory manner. Mezitli Women Producers Market Mezitli, Turkey This initiative based on the promotion of gender equality aims to break the tradition of male-dominated markets, and to provide women from all walks of life, including immigrants, with the opportunity to grow food and sell it in the markets and thus the opportunity to become more independent. Global Vision Urban Action New York City’s Voluntary Local Review VLR of the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs Shows Local Progress for Global Action New York City, United States This is a tool that can help any city map its existing plans and programs against the SDGs and identify gaps and priorities. Congratulations also to the Indonesian city of Surabaya that was voted on by the general public as the Online Popular City. This is the beginning of an inspiring learning journey, because the Guangzhou Award will organize study tours over the course of 2019 to facilitate the exchange and application of these innovative experiences. Stay tuned at GuangzhouAward!

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Sustainable development is an essential issue in today's human society. The global spread of COVID-19 highlights the importance and urgency of sustainable development. A total of 273 initiatives from 175 cities and local governments in 60 countries and regions applied for the 5th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation, which fully demonstrated global cities' determination to adhere to exchanges and cooperation under the epidemic. This meeting released the Technical Committee Meeting results of the 5th Guangzhou Award and announced the 15 shortlisted include Mr. Guan Litong, Deputy Director General of Department of European and Asian Affairs, the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries; Mr. Sun Xiuqing, Deputy Secretary General of Guangzhou Municipal Government; Ms. Emilia Saiz, Secretary-General of United Cities and Local Governments; Mr. Octavi de la Varga, Secretary General of Metropolis. Mr. Liu Baochun, Director General of Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office, Metropolis Regional Secretary of Asia-Pacific, hosted the speakers mentioned that the Covid-19 pandemic has challenged our urban planning and governance. Ms. Saiz said that, the Covid-19 that the world is going through has changed the perceptions of many things and has impacted our economy and our society. It has also highlighted some of the changes that we need to make at local government level. Mr. Octavi said, "The Covid-19 pandemic has placed cities and city leaders at the forefront of the fight and in adapting policies, rethinking our urban development, and looking for creative solutions. And I think this is at the heart of the Guangzhou Award." Multiple speakers expressed their recognition on Guangzhou Award’s achievement on urban governance innovation. In Mr. Guan Litong’s speech, he remarked, despite the impact of the pandemic, the 5th Guangzhou Award has progressed against the adversities. It fully demonstrated the international influence of the Guangzhou Award and the determination of global cities to cooperate and to develop under the pandemic. Mr. Sun Xiuqing praised Guangzhou Award for sticking to its mission and promote global urban governance and sustainable development, while combating the global Sylvia Croese, Chair of the Technical Committee of the 5th Guangzhou Award, the Senior Researcher of the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning from University of the Witwatersrand, reported on the initial assessment and announced the list of shortlisted cities. Subsequently, two of the Technical Committee members, Mr. Serge Salat, President of Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute in Paris, and Mr. Ali Cheshmehzangi, Head of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies CSET of the University of Nottingham in Ningbo China, commented on the shortlisted 15 shortlisted cities of the 5th Guangzhou Award are City of Unley, Australia; Wien, Austria; São José dos Pinhais, Brazil; Chongqing Municipality, China; Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark; Quito, Ecuador; All 114 Urban Local Bodies ULBs of Odisha, India; Berhampur Municipal Corporation BeMC, India; Bandung City Government, Indonesia; Union of Municipalities, Lebanon; Municipality Of Antananarivo Commune Urbaine d'Antananarivo, Madagascar; Breda, Netherlands; Departmental Council of Saint Louis, Senegal; City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Los Angeles, guests accepted interviews from several media and share different concepts and practices of urban innovation and sustainable development. They also give their opinion of the future trends of global urban governance and the renewing assessment of innovation. These ideas provided new insights for the exploration of future urban sustainable find the list of 45 deserving cities as followThe 15 shortlisted cities of the 5th Guangzhou AwardThe 30 deserving initiatives of the 5th Guangzhou AwardReport of the Technical Committee of 5th Guangzhou Award

Onthe night of Nov 12, organized by Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office, the closing ceremony of the 5 th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation (the "Guangzhou Award"), the 2021 Global Mayors' Forum and the 13 th World Congress of the World Association of Metropolis was held in Guangzhou Yuexiu International Congress Center in an online + offline hybrid format.

“The Spirit of Cities” - Launch of the VR Exhibition of the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation hereinafter referred to as "A Review of Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation" was successfully held at the Guangzhou Urban Planning Exhibition Center on May 14. The launch was convened by the Guangzhou Municipality, UCLG and Metropolis in cooperation with the Guangzhou Education Bureau, Guangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau and Southern Finance Omnimedia Corp.,etc.. Zhan Decun, Director General of the Foreign Affairs Office, Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government and Carlos Giralt, Consul General of Mexico in Guangzhou both attended the launch and delivered a speech; Emilia Saiz, Secretary General of UCLG addressed by been severely challenged by the COVID-19 on global urban governance, exploring the relationship between urban innovation and sustainable development has become more realistic and urgent. Mr. Zhan hoped that the exhibition can provide new ideas for international urban innovation and more residents will pay attention to urban innovation, bringing more inspirations to urban governance. From Saiz’s perspective, the exhibition demonstrated that Guangzhou has always remained true to opening as it regards the world as a place of inspirations, drawing inspirations from the world and bringing inspirations back to the Giralt viewed Guangzhou as a metropolis solves many major challenges innovatively which others cities in the world can learn shortlisted cities initiatives of the fifth Guangzhou Award were included in the exhibition, special sections concerned combating the pandemic and pursuing SDGs were also displayed. Meanwhile, the“Drawing the Future of Cities” Art Exhibition was held with drawings from Guangzhou High School of Fine Arts students, allowing them to depict future cities’ blueprint in their mind through brushes, motivating them to serve as the major players of sustainable development pursuit.（scan the code to visit the VR Exhibition Search Faculty At Queens College. Faculty Email from Queens College and a B It is part of the City University of New York system Department Office: D346 New Science Bldg Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm The Weissman Center for International Business, an academic center of the Zicklin School of Business, offers a winter intersession study abroad program, "International CONTACT US Secretariat of Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation Tel +86 20 3780 4434 Email info Address Rm 1609, FuLiXinTianDi, Guangzhou Dadao Zhong, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 501600, PRC

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GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - On the night of Nov 12, organized by Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office, the closing ceremony of the 5th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation the "Guangzhou Award", the 2021 Global Mayors' Forum and the 13th World Congress of the World Association of Metropolis was held in Guangzhou Yuexiu International Congress Center in an online + offline hybrid format. Chongqing, China; Union of Dannieh Municipalities, Lebanon; Quito, Ecuador; Vienna, Austria; and Saint Louis, Senegal won the 5th Guangzhou Award. Odisha, India claimed the honor of the "Online Popular City ". To advance global urban governance and innovative development, Guangzhou, the UCLG and Metropolis created the Guangzhou Award in 2012, which is held every two years. It has gone through a ten-year journey. Each cycle of the Guangzhou Award has attracted more than 150 cities from more than 50 countries to participate, and has so far collected more than 1,300 cases of urban governance innovation from all over the world, providing significant reference for cities around the world to enhance their urban governance capacity. Against the background of the global pandemic, this cycle of the Award still received 273 project submissions from 175 cities of 60 countries and regions, the numbers of participating cities and projects at par with those of previous years. It reflects the growing attention paid to urban governance innovation and sustainable development by the world in face of the pandemic, and highlights the increasing international appeal and influence of Guangzhou Award. From November 8 to 10, the representatives of shortlisted cities were divided into in four groups, namely "inclusive cities", "innovative cities", "resilient cities" and "green cities", to present their projects and take questions from the audience, including the experts of the jury. According to Yu Keping, chairman of the fifth Guangzhou Award jury, the selection criteria for the award-winning projects by the jury members are innovation, participation, influence, importance, replicability, learnability and inclusiveness. The five projects that win the final award is widely representative in terms of their diverse innovation themes, geographical locations, development levels and city sizes. "They meet the UN sustainable development goals SDGs, and indicate the important role of urban innovation in improving residents' lives, advancing civilization and progress, and containing the pandemic. In this sense, these cases have a significant guiding role in the future global urban innovation". It is worth mentioning that Chongqing, China is granted the Award with its initiative of "Innovative emergency solutions to pandemic-related urban medical waste disposal". It provides a model of collaboration, which involves a large number of people based on a clear division of responsibilities, thus enabling quick responses to an emergency. It provides a good model for emergency disposal of medical waste for improving urban safety resilience under pandemic and also alerts other cities in the world the importance of medical waste disposal in controlling the spread of disease. Moreover, Vienna, Austria becomes a second time winner in ten years' time. Recognized by the first Guangzhou Award with the initiative "New Immigrant Integration", it is selected as the winner again for "Werkstadt Junges Wien" initiative in this cycle. On the same night, Octavi de la Varga, Secretary-General of Metropolis announced the result of the painting contest "Metropolises through Children's Eyes". The award ceremony of the contest wrapped up the 2021 Global Mayors' Forum, the 13th World Congress of the World Association of Metropolis and the 5th Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation. In the past few days, under the theme "Moving Forward Together, Modernizing Global Urban Governance" and "Metropolises and Cities in Transformation Rethinking our Future Together", more than 800 urban manager, heads of international organizations, specialists and experts from 126 cities and 9 international organizations engaged actively in the discussion of the advanced experience of local government governance and the future path of urban international cooperation, so as to make suggestions for improving urban governance and accelerating global economic recovery in the post Covid-19 period. Zhang Shuofu, Secretary of CPC Guangzhou Committee; Wen Guohu, Mayor of Guangzhou; Shi Qizhu, Director of the Standing Committee of Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress; Li Yiwei, CPPCC Chairman; Cang Feng, Deputy Director General of Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office; other leading officials of Guangzhou, including Pan Jianguo, Wang Huanqing, Zhang Yajie, and the officials from foreign consulates general in Guangzhou attended the offline activities. List of winners and words from the JuryVIENNA, AUSTRIAWerkstadt Junges Wien Over the past 50 years, Vienna has shifted from a shrinking and ageing city into a young and growing one. How to stimulate children and youth to participate in city decision-making and management? Vienna rolls out an innovation plan - Werkstadt Junges Wien. The objective is to put social inclusion of all children and young people living and growing up in Vienna at the heart of policy-making and city administration. CHONGQING, CHINAInnovative emergency solutions to pandemic-related urban medical waste disposal Due to Covid-19, there has been a surge in urban medical waste. How to effectively dispose urban medical waste, thus preventing secondary infection and virus spread? The Chongqing Municipal Ecological Environmental Bureau used an innovative emergency solution of "3-Level Emergency Mechanism". This solution combines a novel technology to deal with urban medical waste disposal with strict supervision of hospitals. It was implemented in Chongqing to ensure effective regulation and disposal of medical waste. QUITO, ECUADOREco-efficiency tool for the Metropolitan District of Quito In 2016, guided by the Eco-Efficiency Ordinance for the Metropolitan District of Quito, Quito has relied on partnerships with community leaders and universities to not only determine the parameters of local area plans around transit stations, but also incentivize the construction of high density "green" buildings on key transport nodes and with provisions for affordable housing. In addition, the Ordinance also provides for land value capture to ensure that the city retains a financial share of increments generated by greater density and land use allowances in designated zones. UNION OF DANNIEH MUNICIPALITIES, LEBANONCOVID-19 Emergency Response Plan The COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan of the Union of Dannieh Municipalities, Lebanon can cope with the consequence of Covid-19, make up for the shortage in staff and funding, and encourage citizens especially young people to participate in co-governance. With the support of Civil Society OrganizationsCSOs, the union of Dannieh has established an Emergency Response Plan with 15 committees of highly educated youth volunteers. DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL OF SAINT LOUIS, SENEGALInter-municipal approach to safeguard mangrove ecosystems The mangroves of Saint-Louis 1,000 ha are threatened with extinction due to climatic and anthropogenic pressures. To restore these mangroves, the Departmental Council of Saint Louis in Senegal developed an innovative approach to environmental governance - Inter-municipal approach to safeguard mangrove ecosystems, which integrated the restoration of mangrove ecosystems across three municipalities with strategies for addressing urgent urban climate challenges and enhancing livelihoods. Winner of "Online Popular City"Odisha, INDIAUrban Wage Employment Initiative The national lockdown caused by COVID-19 in India has led to an exodus of the urban workforce. How to ensure their wages and livelihood? The provincial government of Odisha, India launched Urban Wage Employment Initiative UWEI whereby the urban workforce has been guaranteed a minimum number of workdays annually at specified daily wage. The workers are being engaged in public works and the resources are drawn from on-going welfare schemes of the national and provincial governments. SOURCE Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office

TheGuangzhou Award is co-sponsored by the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), the World Association of the Major Metropolises (Metropolis) and the City of Guangzhou. The aim of the Guangzhou Award is to recognize innovation in improving social, economic and environmental sustainability and good urban governance in cities and regions and, in so doing, to advance the prosperity and quality of life of their citizens.

The Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation the Guangzhou Award is co-sponsored by the United Cities and Local Governments UCLG, the World Association of the Major Metropolises Metropolis and the City of Guangzhou. It aims to recognize innovation in improving social, economic and environmental sustainability in cities and regions and, in so doing, to advance the prosperity and quality of life of their Guangzhou Award, presented biennially, is open to all cities and local governments with successful initiatives in urban innovation. The initiative that is entered for the Guangzhou Award should be an ongoing or recently completed within the past two years project, measure or policy that produces practical effect or substantial influence, boasting originality, exemplariness and assessment of each cycle’s Guangzhou Award is conducted by international experts independently. The Technical Committee selects up to 15 shortlisted cities and no more than 30 deserving cities from approved applications. From the shortlist, the Jury makes a final selection of up to five award winning cities. Each winner is granted USD 20,000 cash prize, a trophy, and a commemorative certificate designed for the Award. Started from the 5th Guangzhou Award, besides the winners, the remaining short-listed initiatives will be recognized in the form of a Medal of Honor. Since 2012, five cycles of the Guangzhou Award have been held, each of which receives initiatives from more than 150 cities of over 50 countries and regions. These five cycles have made the Guangzhou Award a treasure trove of over 1,300 initiatives which cover a wide range of areas, including infrastructure and public services, participatory planning and good governance, partnerships, technology, resilience, social inclusion and gender previous winners of the Guangzhou Award are as followsWinners of the 1st Guangzhou Award 2012 Kocaeli Turkey, Lilongwe Malawi, Seoul South Korea, Vancouver Canada, Vienna Austria.Winners of the 2nd Guangzhou Award 2014 Antioquia Colombia, Bristol United Kingdom, Christchurch New Zealand, Dakar Senegal, Hangzhou China;Online Popular City Hangzhou China;Media Focused City Bristol United Kingdom; Public Recommended City Antioquia Colombia.Winners of the 3rd Guangzhou Award 2016 Boston United States,Copenhagen Denmark,Qalyubeya Egypt,La Paz Bolivia, Songpa South Korea;Online Popular City La Paz Bolivia;Special Mention City Yiwu China.Winners of the 4th Guangzhou Award 2018 Wuhan China, Milan Italy, Guadalajara Mexico, Mezitli Turkey, New York City United States;Online Popular City Surabaya Indonesia.Winners of the 5th Guangzhou Award 2021Chongqing China,Vienna Austria,Union of Dannieh Municipalities Lebanon,Quito Ecuador,Departmental Council of Saint Loius Senegal.Online Popular City Odisha India;Winners of Medal of Honor Los Angeles United States of America,City of Cape Town South Africa,Breda Netherlands,Municipality of Antananarivo Madagascar,Bandung City Government Indonesia,Berhampur India,Odisha India,Capital Region Denmark,São José Dos Pinhais Brazil.

Anaward ceromony & Gala dinner was held on Dec.7. [Photo/Foreign Affairs Office of Guangzhou Municipal Government] Five innovative urban initiatives won this year's Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation (the Guangzhou Award). The winners were chosen from 15 finalists and were announced at an award ceremony and gala dinner December 7.

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