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The Third Joint Meeting of the Expert Committee of Japan-China Environmental Development Model City Plan

April 5, 1999

1. The Third Joint Meeting of the Expert Committee of Japan-China Environmental Development Model City Plan will be held on April 12 (Mon.) and 13 (Tue.) in Tokyo (Foreign Ministry). The committee consisting of environmental experts of Japan and China was established to study concrete cooperation under the framework of the above Plan, which was agreed upon at the Japan-China summit talks in 1997.
   
   
2. The meeting will be attended on the Japanese side by Mr. Toshio Watanabe, professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, as chairman, the members of the expert committee and others, and on the Chinese side by Mr. Wang Yang Zu, former Deputy Administrator of the National Environment Protection Agency, as chairman, the members of the expert committee and others.
   
   
3. The Japan-China Environment Model City Plan aims at successful models in three basic fields: (1) measures against air pollution (acid rain), (2) establishing recycling-oriented industries and social systems, and (3) measures against global warming: important of energy efficiency, and further spreading such examples to all over China. In the joint meetings of experts of Japan and China held in March and August last year, they agreed that model cities would be Chongqing, Dalian, and Qiyong, and that anti-pollution measures will be implemented with priority and intensity. They also agreed on the selection criteria for concrete projects after conducting on-the-spot research in these cities.
   
   
4. At this Meeting, there will be a full exchange of views on how future cooperation should be implemented in concrete terms, taking into account the results of the studies conducted so far; and recommendations will be compiled for the governments of the two countries on the overall framework for environmental measures and the projects to be implemented in each model city.
   
   
5. In the "latter tow-year" portion of Japan's Fourth Batch Yen Loans toward China (FY 1999-FY 2000), which was decided in November last year when President Jiang Zemin visited Japan, a loan of up to a total of 40.5 billion yen was designated for the three model cities. The Government of Japan intends to further consider how to materialize the projects within this framework based on the recommendations made by the experts committee.
   
   

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