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Professor Lee Hong-Yuan from Taiwan University visits and lectures in IWHR on integrated water resources management
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Prof. Lee Hong-Yuan from Taiwan University visited IWHR on September 1, 2016, and was warmly received by IWHR President Kuang Shangfu and Vice President Hu Chunhong. After the meeting, Prof. Lee also lectured at IWHR's Global Vision Forum on integrated water resources management.


The meeting

During the meeting with Prof. Lee, Dr. Kuang expressed his gratitude to the visiting guest for his contribution and support to IWHR since he accepted to be an honorary professor of IWHR since 2001.As the Chinese mainland is engaged on a full campaign of sponge city development, Dr. Kuang explained that rich experiences and lessons could be drawn from across the straits. He wished that potential cooperation on sponge city development could help anchor toward more in-depth and mutually beneficial cooperation.

Prof. Lee thanked IWHR for the hospitality. In response to Dr. Kuang's remarks on sponge city, he said that he believed in sponge city as the city of the future against the backdrop of increasing urbanization, population growth and climate change; however, a truly functional sponge city calls for scientific design and planning, exhaustive research and technology development, as well as coordination across different sectors. Hopefully more cross-straits cooperation could be done in the direction of sustainable urban development.


Group photo

In his lecture at IWHR's Global Vision Forum, Prof. Lee made a kaleidoscopic introduction on Taiwan's experiences in flood control and drought relief, in particular the mindset shift from a pure focus on engineering measures to both non-engineering and engineering being utilized. He also talked about the significance of inter-sector and inter-agency coordination in urban planning. A lively Q&A session ensued.


The Global Vision Forum


Discussions

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