Sino-German Ecopark sets model for nation's green practices
China DailyAn aerial view of Sino-German Ecopark An exemplary project of Sino-German cooperation in the ecological field, the Sino-German Ecopark on the west bank of Jiaozhou Bay in Qingdao city of Shandong province is China's first bilateral demonstration park focusing on ecology. Green development The park has attracted 24 key projects invested by Fortune Global 500 companies, more than 30 leading German companies, and over 4,400 market entities, said Zhang Yunqing, deputy director of the park's management committee. Its Cosmoplat platform, for instance, has been approved as the nation's first industrial internet platform with over 200 enterprises, providing new development paths for upgraded supply models in the low-carbon era; and Haier's 4.0 industrial base in the park is laying out and constructing 5G application scenarios in 16 fields. The 820,000-sq-m Sino-German Future City will become the park's first "zero-carbon test area" to utilize renewable energy such as solar, geothermal, and air energy.