Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Faculty Scholarship 2-2016 The Rise of Shenzhen and BYD--How a Chinese Corporate Pioneer is Leading Greener and More Sustainable Urban Transportation and Development Taylor Lynch Ogan Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/facpub China The Rise of Shenzhen and BYD – How a Chinese Corporate Pioneer is Leading Greener and More Sustainable Urban Transportation and Development BY TAYLOR LYNCH OGAN AND XIANGMING CHEN While the world is focusing on if the Chinese problems? What can we learn from its success government can be a trusted and reliable that has a positive impact on sustainable cities? leader in dealing with global climate change, Understanding how BYD has done it, in relation a Chinese company – BYD – has been to its home city of Shenzhen in southern China, leading the industrial and technological can teach us two important lessons. One is the frontier of green energy transportation and critical importance of a bold corporate vision Taylor Lynch Ogan contributing to more sustainable urban and its persistent execution. The other is how Currently a sophomore development in China. the pioneering role of a home-grown company, at Trinity College, Connecticut, majoring in nurtured by its local government, can improve Urban Studies hina has been a dominant factor in the its urban environment and set it up as a model global response to climate change as the for other cities. world’s largest emitter of CO . China got C 2 central attention and much praise at the 2015 The Urbanisation-Pollution Nexus United Nations Climate Change Conference Over the past three decades, China has held in Paris after President Xi Jinping had experienced the most rapid urban expansion in pledged to cap its rapidly growing carbon emis- human history.