The Chinese government and the Shanghai Industrial Investment Co. Count build a city entirely on ecological Chongming Island near Shanghai by 2009. Its operation revolves around renewable energy and a healthy lifestyle:


* The electricity will be supplied by wind, the rain used to erect field crops and the waste is used as fuel for heating fuel.

* The roofs of houses, eight floors maximum, will be covered with grass, which provide energy savings of 70% together with the insulation of houses.

* Residents feed exclusively organic farming for local farmers.
40% of the surface of the island is devoted to buildings, the rest will retain their cultures and the bird reserve.

* The cars driven on the island will be prohibited petrol and diesel.


In order to achieve this ambitious project, we will have to invest $ 1.3 billion.
Regarding infrastructure, a tunnel and a bridge are planned for the trip from Shanghai to Chongming in 45 min. And all this will be in the country with 20 of the 30 most polluted cities on earth? Is that the great awareness?

Some minds are not in agreement with this project. For example Zhao Min, director of the Institute of Urban Planning of Tongji University in Shanghai, considers that the island has always been a natural ecological island. It does not include the choice of location for the government since not far from Shanghai there are other places with surfaces wide enough to develop such a project.

The approach suggests that manufacturers do not necessarily an environmental approach, but rather a passing fad.

De plus, d’autres problèmes émergent : Il est bien de concevoir l’agriculture écologique, mais elle sera érigée avec l’eau de pluie qui tombera à 45 min de route de Shanghai. Cette pluie sera forcement acide, du coup l’agriculture n’est plus vraiment écologique. Et certes, les voitures ne roulent que en mode « propre », mais l’air sera toujours pollué par l’industrie implantée dans les alentours de Shanghai.