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There will be various demonstrationÿS on smart grid related technologies at the Minato Mirai 21 district during the APEC.<br><br> <A href="#03">% 3. Yokohama City will carbon offset the CO<SUP>2</SUP> emitted by the APEC Japan 2010!</A> <br>0Yokohama City will carbon offset the CO<SUP>2</SUP> emitted by the use of electricity, gas, and water in the convention center and the neighboring hotels during the APEC. Roughly 710 ton CO2 is estimated to be carbon offset by purchasing the Kyoto Mechanism Credit. Hamakko-Doshi The Water  purchased by the Yokohama City citizens and Picture Diary of Environment  submitted by the children will be the resources for the carbon offset.<br><br> <A href="#04">% 4. Initiatives in progress to provide a better environment for APEC Japan 2010</A> <br>0As the APEC host city, Yokohama City has been working to secure the environment in order to provide a safer and better environment for the APEC.<br><br> <A href="#05">0Yokohama footnotes0vol.200Statement Slogan Logo representing the future Yokohama has been decided!</A><br><br> </B></FONT></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </div> <hr color="#5F9EAD"> <div> <TABLE bgcolor="#2E8B57" align="center" color="#2F4F4F"> <TR> <TD><A name="01"> <strong><FONT color="#ffffff"><strong>% 1.Supporting Urban Development in Emerging Economies based on Yokohama s City Management Know-How and Private Sector s Technologies Yokohama Partnership of Resources and Technologies (Y-PORT)</strong> </FONT></strong></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size="2" color="#2F4F4F"> <br>0The City of Yokohama has been faced with a number of challenges, such as fatal damage caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake and the World War II. Air and water pollution, rapid urbanization, and progress in sprawl development of residential areas were key urban development issues due to modernization and population expansion. Aiming at making a city safe and comfortable to live in, the City has been wresting to overcome these challenges, while realizing a higher level of the urban infrastructure and providing city services. The City has also been working on building itself into an environmentally-friendly city and on the G30*1) and other environmental management projects with citizen collaboration and these efforts are recognized as highly successful initiatives worldwide. The World Bank promotes Eco2 Cities *2)that demonstrate good practices of sustainable and integrated urban development by combining environmentalmanagement with economic growth and initially certified six cities in the world and Yokohama was the only one city in Japan that was selected. <br>0As Yokohama has experienced, some cities in newly-emerging Asian and African countries currently have been experiencing rapid urbanization and are faced with population growth, environmental degradation, delay in improvement of public services and the infrastructure. <br>0In order to help newly-emerging and other developing countries solve a variety of urban issues, Yokohama has launched the Y-PORT (Yokohama Partnership of Resources and Technologies) Program, an international technical cooperation scheme through public-private partnership. Y-PORT will be implemented by drawing on urban development experiences and know-how the City has accumulated, by enlisting private sector s business and technical strengths, and by working with universities, international institutions and other related organizations. <br><br><FONT size="-1"> ;1)*1) G30 <br>A variety of solid waste reduction and recycling activities toward the achievement of the goal set by the Yokohama G30 Plan  in which the volume of refuse discharged by the city will be reduced by 30% in fiscal 2010 from fiscal 2001. <br> ;2)Eco2 Cities <br> Ecological cities as Economic cities  (that are environmentally friendly, while showing sustainable economic growth).Cites designated as such are Stockholm (Sweden), Curitiba (Brazil), Singapore, Brisbane (Australia), Auckland (New Zealand) and Yokohama (Japan).</FONT> <p><strong><font color="#00008B">0Key Activities of the Y-PORT Program0</font></strong> <br><strong>%ÇUrban Development Advisory Services</strong> <img alt=" Comprehensive Collaboration Agreement  with JGC Corporation" src="../../image/nikki.gif" width="200" height="137" align="right"> <br>0The city supports newly-emerging countries with their urban development by drawing on experiences gained through international cooperation and a wide range of know-how and technologies on urban development and other matters. <br>0In June 2010, the City signed the Comprehensive Collaboration Agreement  on international technical cooperation with JGC Corporation, a company based in Yokohama. Through this partnership between the public and private sectors the City would assist the JGC Corporation conduct the feasibility study (FS) on the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Initiative <SUP>*3 </SUP>in India.<SUP> ;3</SUP>0 0nFS Š¿gû0kSTR›0W0f0D0~0Y0 <br>0The city has also received requests for research cooperation and advice concerning the water and sewage management plan for Saudi Arabia as promoted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the urban development plan for Penang, Malaysia through the World Bank, and other projects. <br><FONT size="-1"> ;3ÿ *3) The initiative is a bilateral cooperative regional development project agreed upon by and between Japan and India in December 2009, calling for constructing an about 1,500-km-long, cargo-specific railroad system between Delhi, the capital of India, and Mumbai, a sister city of Yokohama, and for building industrial complex and other districts and developing the infrastructure therefore along the railroad route, as these programs are being implemented led by the private sector. It is a huge project with a total cost reaching US$90 billion.</font> <br><p><strong>%ÇYokohama City Promotion</strong> <br>0The city actively communicates to the world the infrastructure technologies and know-how the city has cultivated to help solve a variety of urban issues newly-emerging and other countries may have. <br>0In October 2010, the first International Conference on Eco2 Cities (hosted by the World Bank and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)) was held in Yokohama. Eco2 Cities  is the World Bank s approach to sustainable and integrated urban development as part of its new corporate strategy, and at the conference, World Bank Vice President Inger Andersen and Yokohama City Mayor Fumiko Hayashi exchanged opinions about urban development in newly-emerging and other developing countries. <br>In January 2011, the City sent representatives to also Chennai to attend the Japan-India Center of Excellence Development Seminar  held in the Tamil Nadu State, the southern part of India, to communicate Yokohama s urban development efforts, including the city s history of urban infrastructure improvement and its urban development know-how. <br>Also in February 2011, a group of ambassadors to Japan and other representatives from Arab League countries visited Yokohama to observe the Minato Mirai 21 area, and Yokohama s environmentally-friendly urban development efforts were promoted. <br><img alt="The first International Conference on Eco2 Cities" src="../../image/ecocity.jpg" width="201" height="151">0 <img alt="Japan-India Center of Excellence Development Seminar" src="../../image/kyotenseminar.jpg" width="197" height="148">0 <img alt="MM21 Visit by representatives from Arab League Countries" src="../../image/mm21shisatsu.jpg" width="189" height="142">0 <br>0"jFor further information, please visit the official Y-PORT site at<a href="http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/keiei/kyoso/yport/yport/"> http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/keiei/kyoso/yport/yport/ </a>"k</a> <br><br> </font> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR><A href="#10"><center>page top</center></A><BR><br> </div> <div> <TABLE bgcolor="#2E8B57" align="center" color="#2F4F4F"> <TR> <TD><A name="02"> <strong><FONT color="#ffffff"><strong>% 2.Approaches to International Water Business on Water Supply and Sewerage Systems Segments</strong> </FONT></strong></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size="2" color="#2F4F4F"><br> <img alt="Hokubu Sewerage Treatment Center" src="../../image/hokubugesui.jpg" width="166" height="124" align="right"> 0The waterworks market has been rapidly growing mainly in the water supply and sewerage systems segments in newly-emerging and other developing countries worldwide. Japan has the world s top-class waterworks but from the global point of view, the world market is dominated today by large European companies called the Water Majors.  <br>0The world s waterworks market is expected to rapidly grow in newly-emerging countries in Asia and other parts of the world in the future, with the market size forecast to more than double from about 36 trillion Yen in 2007 to about 87 trillion Yen for 2025. Yokohama has companies which are based in the city and engaged in water management businesses, so that it is expected that the growing market will help vitalize the city s economy. <p><strong><font color="#00008B">0Promotion to Attract the Water Hub to Yokohama0</font></strong> <br>0While Japan has technological advantages in the world in water supply and sewerage systems, there are also challenges that these systems are not integrated nationwide since they are two different systems and many of them are operated by municipal governments. Therefore, in order to increase the country s international competitiveness in the waterworks market, the government of Japan plans to establish the strategic waterworks center (the Japan Version of Water Hub) in the sewerage segment. <br>0Yokohama has its sewerage systems, in particular, with advanced levels of wastewater treatment technologies and a wealth of successful track records on operating the systems, including the use of the wastewater as resources or into energy generation. The city also has companies doing related businesses, located in it. It is believed, therefore, that it would help leverage Yokohama s strengths and increase attraction of the water hub, if it is chosen as such. <br>The city thus has the Hokubu Sewerage Treatment Center in Suehiro Town, the Tsurumi Ward chosen as the water hub candidate. The center is ideally located, as the hub, in the area which provides good access to/from the Haneda Airport increasingly being internationalized and which represents a concentration of companies doing related businesses. In January 2011, Yokohama City Mayor Fumiko Hayashi met Land, Infrastructure and Transport Vice Minister Wakio Mitsui to sell Yokohama by stressing that Yokohama is an excellent water hub candidate in Japan. <br><br><strong><font color="#00008B">0Establishment of the Yokohama Water Business Conference (YWBC)0</font></strong> <br>02011, Yokohama establishes the Yokohama Water Business Conference (YWBC)  through public-private partnership as a forum for information sharing, opinion exchange and promotion of overseas water management businesses. The YWBC is expected to be joined by over 100 companies and organizations. Attracting water management businesses from abroad through YWBC activities would help vitalize participating companies in a wide variety of fields, such as technological development and expansion of business opportunities. <br><br><strong><font color="#00008B">00Establishment of Yokohama Water Corporation0</font></strong> <br>0In July 2010, Yokohama Water Corporation (YWC) was established as a new wholly-owned subsidiary of the Yokohama Waterworks Bureau (YWB). YWC is designed to use the YWB s technologies, know-how and other resources to help water supply business entities in Japan and abroad solve their problems, while ensuring a new income stream to enhance the operating basis of the YWB. Specifically, YWC accepts trainees from abroad and provides consultancy for water supply businesses overseas. <br><br> <br><br> </font> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR><A href="#10"><center>page top</center></A><BR><br> </div> <div> <TABLE bgcolor="#2E8B57" align="center" color="#2F4F4F"> <TR> <TD><A name="03"> <strong><FONT color="#ffffff"><strong>% 3. Establishing Yokohama as Center of Tourism, MICE, and Creative City</strong> </FONT></strong></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size="2" color="#2F4F4F"><br> <br>0By taking the opportunities of improved access to Yokohama from abroad through opening of the Haneda Airport to its international flight and relaxed requirements for tourist visa issuance to individual Chinese visitors to Japan, the city promotes attracting more visitors to Yokohama from the Asian region. <br>0In November 2010, the APEC 2010 Yokohama  was successfully held to allow Yokohama to communicate its attractions to the world. Yokohama has been the No. 1 city in Japan in terms of the number of participants in international conferences for three consecutive years (from 2007-2009). The city will put more efforts to invite more MICEs*4) in general centering on medium to large-scale international conferences offering higher economic ripple effect and city promotion , while working to improve after-convention services. <br>0Yokohama has its central downtown area which is a concentration of historical architectural structures, warehouses and other places backed by ports and harbors and its history since opening thereof. The city will use these landmark facilities to communicate creative activities of artists and creators to help vitalize the area. Furthermore, in August 2011, the city will host the Yokohama Triennale 2011,  a series of international exhibitions of contemporary art held once every three years. <br>0Effective May 2011, the city will establish the new Cultural and Tourism Bureau  designed to provide a full range of programs based on the city s tourism, MICE and creative city strategy. The Bureau aims to achieve the theme of realizing Yokohama as a cultural and dynamic city and Yokohama as a prosperous city where people gather and exchange.  <br>0 ;4ÿ MICE*4) MICE Acronym of Meetings (corporate and other meetings), Incentive Travels (corporate and other incentive and training travels), Conventions (general assembly and academic conferences hosted by international institutions and other organizations, academic societies, etc.), Events/Exhibitions (events, exhibitions and trade shows). It is a collective term for business events expected to attract a large number of visitors for exchange. <img alt="Establishing Minato Mirai 21 as MICE City" src="../../image/minatomirai.jpg" width="197" height="97" align="right"> <br> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR><A href="#10"><center>page top</center></A><BR><br> </div> <div> <TABLE bgcolor="#2E8B57" align="center" color="#2F4F4F"> <TR> <TD><A name="03"> <strong><FONT color="#ffffff"><strong>% 4. The Maritime and sky Link Hub Strategy</strong> </FONT></strong></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size="2" color="#2F4F4F"><br> <br>0The dynamic development of ports in China and other Asian countries in recent years has been reducing the presence of the Port of Yokohama and other major ports in Japan relative to them. In 1980, the Yokohama Port ranked 12th in terms of the cargo handling volume (at 720,000 TEU*5)) and reduced its place down to the 36th (at 2,800,000 TEU). To break this impasse, three ports in the Keihin areas (namely, Tokyo, Kawasaki and Yokohama Ports) are designated by the government of Japan as Strategic Ports for International Containers  to work on a variety of programs. The Yokohama Port is working on the intensive renovation of large-scale container terminals, a variety of programs to better support cargo collection, and the privatization of Yokohama Port Public Corporation, while promoting the early improvement of the expressway networks. These efforts are designed to meet the goal of increasing the cargo volume handled by the 3 Keihin Ports from about 7.6 million TEU in 2008 to about 10.5 million TEU by the end of 2015 to realize the hub ports by leveraging on the strengths unique to their strategic international ports and marine transportation routes allowing them to compete with the Busan Port in South Korea. <br>0The internationalization of the Haneda Airport provides high-demand, international business lines, including U.S. and European and long-haul Asian ones, to enhance the role of the Keihin Ports as a hub port. In order to maximize the effect of the internationalization of the Haneda Airport, Yokohama promotes urban development in the central and waterfront areas and the improvement of large-area expressway networks, while promoting tourism and MICE attraction and vitalizing logistics. <br>0Upgrading the Yokohama Port into a hub port and the Haneda Airport into an international hub airport will provide great opportunities for Yokohama to enhance its international competitiveness and to further vitalize its economy, thereby promoting the improvement of basic urban infrastructure supporting the sea and sky hubs and strongly backing up its economic development. <img alt="Yokohama Port (Honmoku Pier)" src="../../image/honmoku.jpg" width="200" height="134" align="right"> <img alt="Haneda International Airport" src="../../image/haneda.jpg" width="225" height="169" align="right"> <br>0 ;5ÿ TEUÿ*5) TEU (Twenty-foot equivalent unit) Standard unit for describing a ship s cargo carrying capacity. One 20 foot container equals 1TEU. <br><br> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR><A href="#10"><center>page top</center></A><BR><br> </div> <div> <div> <TABLE bgcolor="#2E8B57" align="center" color="#2F4F4F"> <TR> <TD><A name="04"> <B><FONT color="#ffffff"><strong>Yokohama Footnotes Vol.2100The Summary of the Mid-Term, 4-Year Plan (2010-13) Available in 5 Different Languages!0</strong> </FONT></B></A></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD bgcolor="#ffffff"><font size="2" color="#2F4F4F"><br> <img alt="Mid-Term 4-Year Plan" src="../../image/chuki.jpg" width="104" height="147" align="left">0 <br>0International residents in Yokohama number about 80 thousands, up 2.2 times for the past 20 years. In Mid-Term 4-Year Plan, Promotion of International cultural exchange programs and creation of multi-cultural city  have been set as one of the policy to be achieved the goal. Civic Awareness of Foreign Residents of Yokohama show that the top problem they have in their lives in Japan is not good at communicating in the Japanese language.  The city closely works with ward offices, the Yokohama Association for International Communications and Exchanges (YOKE) and other organizations to promote urban development for a multi-cultural city so that both Japanese and international residents can live together in local communities. <br>0Among other ward offices, the Tsurumi Ward Office has the foreign-language speaking staff to serve international residents who are not good at speaking Japanese, while using multi-lingual information magazine and e-mail magazines to provide information useful for living in Japan. The Naka Ward Office issues a PR magazine in English and Chinese to provide information useful in living in Japan and information about administrative procedures. <br>0The Mid-Term, 4-Year Plan is also available in five different languages of English, Chinese,Hangul, Portuguese and Spanish. <br>For further information, please visit:<a href="http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/keiei/seisaku/newplan/"> http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/keiei/seisaku/newplan/ </a><br> <br><br><br><br> </font> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR><A href="#10"><center>page top</center></A><BR><br> </div> <!-- #EndEditable --> <hr color="#5F9EAD"> <!-- end of body --> <!-- List --> <div class="pankuzu"> <font color="#2F4F4F"> <a href="http://www.city.yokohama.jp/en/">0City of Yokohama</a> &nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<a href="../../index-e.html">Pressroom</a> &nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<a href="../newsletter-e.html">Newsletter</a> &nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;March.2011 </font> </div> <!-- LIst End --> <hr color="#5F9EAD"> <!-- Address --> <address> Media Liaison Subdivision, Management & Planning Bureau, City of Yokohama<br> - Created: 31 March.2011<br> Contact Us - <a href="mailto:ss-hodo&#64;city.yokohama.jp">ss-hodo&#64;city.yokohama.jp</a> - TEL: 045-671-3498<br> &copy;2010 City of Yokohama. 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