Clash, Compete, Cooperate China and the US Counselors of Real Estate High Level Conference July 15, 2006

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Clash, Compete, CooperateChina and the
USCounselors of Real Estate High Level
ConferenceJuly 15, 2006
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Agenda

• ISDF Intro
• China today
• China-US Center for Sustainable Development

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International Sustainable Development Foundation
Zero Waste Alliance
China US Center for Sustainable Development
Green Electronics Council
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China Today

• Tiger and Dragon

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Chinas Urbanization
China Population Information Center
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China as Tiger

• GDP 8-10
• Consumer spending 57 of GDP
• Retail sales 14 growth annually
• Telecom sales 36 growth
• Construction material sales up 50
• Housing Units 5 billion sq. ft. per year and
  growing to 9 billion by 2010

State Information Center
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Commodity Market

• Share of World Consumption
• Cement 40
• Coal 31
• Iron Ore 30
• Steel 27
• Aluminum 25
• Oil 8 and growing 30/yr

2003 Data
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Consumer Market

• 1994
• 40
• 10
• 3
• -

• 2004
• 82
• 63
• 49
• 51

Ownership Color TVs Home Telephones Personal
Cell Phones DVDs
Personal Incomes 250
2004 China Gallup Poll
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Gallup Assessment

• "The change in the living standards of China's
  people over the last decade is nothing short of
  astonishing -- surely the most dramatic
  transformation ever witnessed by more than a
  fifth of mankind over such a brief period."

2004 China Gallup Poll
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US-China Comparison

• US China
• Meat 37 67
• Steel 104 258
• Oil 20.4 6.5
• Coal 574 804
• Fertilizer 19 41

Million Tons per year except Oil at million
barrels/day
30 annual increase
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China as Market Leader

• 2000 largest refrigerator and TV market
• 2002 - largest mobile phone market
• 2010 largest PC market
• 2030 largest economy on planet

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Chinas Dragon
The River Runs Black Elizabeth Economy, Council
on Foreign Relations
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The Dragons Tail

• Water resources gt1/4 worlds per capita
• City water shortages 70
• Urban watershed contamination 90
• Drinking water substandard 65
• Waste water treatment - 1/3 of cities
• Farmland loss 2700 miles 2 annually
• GDP loss due to air pollution and other
  ecological damage 15

Ministry of Construction World Bank 2003 Data
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The Great Challenge

• China can no longer afford to follow the West's
• resources-hungry model of development and it
  should
• encourage its citizens to avoid adopting the
  developed
• world's consumer habits . . . It's important to
  make
• Chinese people not blatantly imitate Western
  consumer
• habits so as not to repeat the mistakes by the
  industrial
• development of the west over the past 300 years."
  

Pan Yue, Deputy Minister, SEPA
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Key Terms

• Three Represents
• Scientific Development
• Circular Economy
• Harmonious Development
• Xiaokang Society
• Floating Population
• Socialist Countryside

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China US Center
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Joint Board Meeting
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Mission

• To accelerate sustainable development in China
  and the United States based on natures design
  principles and achieve results that can then go
  to scale.

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Strategic Goals

• Set standards for sustainable development
• Build the human and organizational capacity to
  achieve it