Jobs, Tourism and Innovation Minister Pat Bell leads a trade mission to Beijing, March 27 – 31, to show the Chinese housing industry the green benefits of building with wood.
“An increasing number of government officials and developers are asking us about the environmental and climate friendly benefits of switching to wood-frame construction for their housing projects,” Bell said. “This trade mission will have a strong focus on showing them why B.C. wood products are an excellent fit with China’s new green building policies.”
The B.C. delegation will discuss market needs with Vice Minister Qiu Baoxing from the Chinese central government’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) as well as Vice Governor Song Enhua from the Province of Hebei. Many of the trade mission activities in Beijing evolve around the Green Building Show, a MOHURD-sponsored conference expected to draw more than 2,000 visitors from the Chinese construction industry.
Minister Bell and Vice Minister Qiu will hammer in the final nails to open the Green Home Canada building in Beijing. Green Home Canada is a special demonstration project assembled in three days to highlight the advantages of using pre-fabricated components to build low-rise apartments. In addition to generating new sales orders for B.C. lumber, the delegation travels to Tianjin to check progress on four-storey, wood-frame residential buildings under construction in Tianjin.
