孙建平院长致辞

Speech by President Sun Jianping

Mr. Sun Jianping

Former Director and Secretary of Party Leadership Group, the Shanghai Municipal Communications Commission, Standing Member of the Shanghai Committee of the CPPCC, Director of the CPPCC Shanghai Committee for Population, Resources and Environment Construction, and Dean of the Institute for Urban Risk Management of Tongji University (URMI).

Welcome to the URMI! On behalf of the URMI, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks and best regards to all sectors of the community who have cared about and supported our development.

It’s High time for risk control and management

China is facing rapid urbanization, along with an ever higher density of population. The urban development is both diverse and complicated. In comparison with the developed countries, urban management in China is faced with its own unique problems. The urban risks we are confronted with are not just simple production safety accidents, but an endless stream of the traditional and also non-traditional public safety issues occurring in China’s cities currently. Our urban development calls for risk management. However, we are presently not only lacking theories and methods for urban risk management, but also need to establish the perfect mechanism to identify the causes of urban risk, to analyze the conditions that affect the formation of urban risk, and to formulate feasible countermeasures to deal with urban risk. The development of the future of this city calls for a complicated and multi-level urban risk management organization that is sustainable and innovative. To this end, we need to build a set of urban risk management theory framework for the actual needs of Chinese cities. The URMI is committed to focusing on the difficulties, hot spots and pain points in urban development, and to carrying out cutting-edge research on urban development, urban management, risk prevention and control, as well as other related fields.

Let’s roll up our sleeves and work hard

Relying on Tongji University's own rich academic and management resources, the URMI is likewise committed to building a talent training base as a high-end think tank, communication platform and transformation carrier for the urban risk management sector. And with the support of the relevant ministries of the State and all other aspects of Shanghai, this talent training base will have a unique influence nationwide and even worldwide. The year 2017 is the initial year for the URMI. Therefore, all the related work is of great importance to the future development of the URMI. We shall adhere to the URMI’s motto, “Reliable Consideration and Work Corporately”, to fully achieve and accomplish our annual goals and tasks, and to establish a solid foundation for the healthy and sustainable development of the URMI through enhancing promotion, forceful implementation and encouraging breakthroughs in the initial period. At this point, on behalf of the URMI, I would like to express my gratitude to all my colleagues and to all sectors of the community for their generous support and assistance. Let’s work together to make opportunities while facing the challenges, and let’s strive to make our dreams come true.

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