Nanjing delegation learns from Melbourne’s Docklands

Senior delegates from the Chinese city of Nanjing toured Melbourne’s Docklands last year (November 2019) to see how Australia’s experience could inform their own urban water management.

Nanjing is the capital city of Jiangsu Province, one of Victoria’s sister states.

Professor Tony Wong and Jianbin Wang (our International Engagement Manager—Asia) took the 11 senior delegates, led by Party Sectary of City of Nanjing Mr Zhang Jinghua, on a guided tour around Docklands Park to see WSUD features constructed in the precinct 20 years ago.

Docklands and Nanjing have similar urban densities, and the group held vibrant high level discussions about the lessons they could take from the Australian examples.

Nanjing_Group_1 — Eleven senior delegates from the Chinese city of Nanjing toured Melbourne’s Docklands in November to see how Australia’s experience could inform Nanjing’s urban water management.

The CRCWSC’s Professor Tony Wong, Dr Kerrie Burge, and Professor Peter Breen worked on some of the original WSUD features of Docklands. You can read more from this 2008 design guide.