Two well-known German green construction companies signed cooperation accords Friday with a local management department in eastern China's Jiangsu Province to help build a 100,000-people low-carbon demonstration town on the southern bank of the Yangtze River.

According to Xue Liang, head of the management commission of Lingang New Town, Jiangyin city, the planned low-carbon town will be built in three to five years and develop into a sub-center of the city.

The project, dubbed Lingang New World, will be located at Shengang of Jiangyin, with the first-phase construction cover an area of 2.63 square kilometers.

Major functional blocks of the first phase will embrace administrative and commerce, research and development and education, financial service and exhibition and conference, recreation and living service areas.

DEKRA AG and I.Design Engineering Architect Holding Group (I.DEA) would provide technical support for the planned low-carbon town, Xue said.

I.DEA will offer central energy supply solutions for the new town, according to Claus Treppte, a top tech official with the German company.

It will adopt geothermal, solar energy and other advanced energy technologies to ensure sustained energy efficiency for the town.

Xue Liang told Xinhua that low-carbon industry had taken shape in Jiangyin. At the end of 2009, the city's low-carbon industrial park ushered in a group of well-known new-energy companies from abroad and other part of China, including a glass fiber products supplier from Denmark.

(Xinhua News Agency January 30, 2010)