Wei Liu

Wei Liu is a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Luohan Academy of the Alibaba Group. He has 15 years of research and practical experience on sustainable development, through internationally funded projects in China, South and Southeast Asia, Southern African, and Europe. He publishes extensively in international peer-reviewed journals on topics related to nature conservation, climate change and sustainability transition.

Jianyu Zhang

Jianyu Zhang is the Senior Advisor, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED). He is well known for his leadership and contribution to the establishment of China’s Carbon Trading System, the largest in the world. He found the China program of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in 1999 and was VP of EDF. He is an executive board director of China Association for International NGO Cooperation (CANGO).  Zhang got his advanced degrees from Tsinghua University (Bachelor), Stanford University (Master), and Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D.).

Digital Economy and Carbon Neutrality

With a gross domestic product share of 38.6% in 2020, the country’s digital economy is considered to play a key role in achieving this carbon neutrality target. This initiative is supportive of ADB’s recent announcement of an increased ambition of $100 billion in climate finance by 2019-2030, as well as UNFCCC COP26's call on scaling up the investments in climate change adaptation and achieving carbon neutrality.

Chao-Hung Kuo

Doctor Chao-Hung Kuo is the current Superintendent of Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital (KMSH).

He is also a Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine at Kaohsiung Medical University where he was a Ph.D. Graduate from the KMU Institute of Clinical Medicine. 

Doctor Chao-Hung Kuo also served as Chief of Digestive Endoscopy Center of KMSH, Chief Executive of Kaohsiung Healthy City Promotion Center, and former Director of Kaohsiung Healthy Harbor City Association.

 

CIE-ADB Knowledge Sharing Seminar: Strengthening Clinical Care and Community Services to Fight COVID-19

Taipei,China suffered seriously from SARS but learned valuable lessons for responding to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

To fight COVID-19, Taipei,China employed a strategy focused on three elements: border control; community pandemic prevention; and preservation of the clinical care system.