What are the sub-themes of the Expo?

Theme of Shanghai World Expo: Better City, Better Life

Five sub-themes of Shanghai World Expo

-------------. In the process of urban development, military, trade and migration have further promoted the collision and integration of multi-cultures, and also formed the unique temperament of each city. On the one hand, this temperament is based on a city's cultural heritage and creative industries, on the other hand, it integrates the lifestyle and value orientation of various social groups and strata in the city.

Today, people all over the world pay more attention to cultural freedom and cultural identification than ever before. Urban culture under globalization is facing impacts from many sides. The massive flow of information and people makes the collision between strong culture and weak culture, foreign culture and local culture, immigrant culture and mainstream culture in cities reach an unprecedented level.

Multiculturalism means the harmony between history and the future. More and more city managers realize that a cultural strategy that takes both history and future into consideration, promotes the harmonious existence of multiculturalism, and a distinctive personality in the process of integration, that is, cultural identification, is an important link in the sustainable development of cities.

Prosperity of urban economy

The earliest cities developed from fairs. The driving force of urban economic development is the agglomeration effect of cities. In the era of knowledge economy, innovation and entrepreneurship have increasingly become the core driving force for the sustainable development of urban economy. A city's innovation ability is based on its research strength, but more comes from the creative interaction between people. Although entrepreneurial ability is related to the wealth of a city, it is actually rooted in the cultural tradition of encouraging entrepreneurship. Whether a city has a high-quality working and living environment and the ability to attract first-class talents is directly related to a city's economic future. In addition, good infrastructure and complete service industry are also necessary conditions for urban economic prosperity.

Needless to say, there is a conflict between urban economic development and environmental resources protection. Establishing circular economy model has become an important strategy to realize sustainable urban development. This economic development model advocates the 3R principle of reducing resource utilization (reduce), product reuse and waste recycling in production, and finally achieves the harmony between economic development and environment.

In a word, the future urban economy will be more vibrant, and this vitality is based on two major foundations, one is the innovation and creativity of citizens, and the other is the harmony between man and nature.

innovation of urban science and technology

the city is a huge stage for human science and technology innovation. Within the city wall, all kinds of innovative elements converge and blend, and innovative ideas are generate because of people's intensive communication and interaction. At the same time, the city's R&D and production facilities make the spark of innovation quickly transform into technology, and then become products and services that benefit mankind.

since the 2th century, the rapid development of science and technology has made large-scale urbanization possible. At the same time, the enrichment and improvement of people's material life are concentrated in cities. Science and technology have greatly improved human daily life, and this material life has also left a deep imprint on human cultural and spiritual life.

In the future cities, science and technology will play a great role in protecting non-renewable resources, intensively utilizing energy, protecting species diversity and creating sustainable human settlements.

remodeling of urban community

community is the "cell" of the city and the most common living space form of urban people. Healthy "cells" can create a healthy and harmonious city. Cultural integration and economic prosperity are all realized with the community as the basic unit.

the construction and reconstruction of urban communities has always been the most direct task faced by urban managers. How to make poor communities disappear from the social map of the city was once the most vivid and lasting puzzle in the history of urban development. Nowadays, the change of urban residents' structure in developed countries and the unprecedented growth of urban population in developing countries make this task more arduous. In its Millennium Declaration, UN-Habitat put forward the goal of building a "slum-free city", and strived to significantly improve the lives of 1 million slum dwellers in the world cities by 22.

under the goal of sustainable development, the reconstruction of urban communities in the 21st century means the creation of "balanced communities", which should have the following characteristics: reasonable composition of residents, reasonable housing ownership structure, perfect infrastructure, pleasant living environment, sufficient employment and entrepreneurial opportunities, and profound social cohesion.

the interaction between cities and villages

since the birth of cities, cities and villages are interdependent in economy, society and environment. Rural residents make a living by selling products to cities, and the prosperity of cities also depends on the resources and needs of rural hinterland.

The expansion of cities has brought great pressure on non-renewable resources, and the new ideas of urban planning, the application of architecture and energy science and technology can alleviate this pressure to the greatest extent. At the same time, the influx of a large number of rural population has put forward a difficult task for urban management. On the one hand, the construction and transformation of urban communities will give the urbanized population a good living environment; On the other hand, the construction of small cities and market towns can also effectively reduce the population and employment pressure on big cities. Under the impact of globalization, the agricultural areas in some countries have lost their competitive advantages. Good urban-rural interaction can help farmers successfully change their management and make a living, or reshape the agricultural production structure and restore the competitiveness of agriculture. How to coordinate the flow of people, capital, goods and information between urban and rural areas is closely related to the harmonious and synchronous development of urban and rural areas.

At present, nearly half of the world's population lives in rural areas. The differences between urban and rural areas in developing countries have prompted relevant international organizations to call for making full use of the complementary role and mutual connection between rural areas and cities, and strive to eliminate rural poverty and improve rural living conditions while trying to eliminate urban poverty.