Investing in China: The World's First Eco-City Promises Alternative Investment Potential
By Ann Sosnowski
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Investing in China: The World’s First Eco-City Promises Alternative Investment Potential
by Ann Sosnowski, Editor-in-Chief, Diligent Investor
Green technology is taking a drastic turn in China. Does it surprise you? If there's a place in the world where new "socially conscious" strategies would be necessary, it’s China. Since 2001, the People’s Republic has increased its emissions more than every other industrialized country in the world combined.
In fact, environmental damage from an overabundance of pollution due to extreme population growth and carbon dioxide emissions costs China’s economy $200 billion per year -- 10% of China’s annual GDP.
China's centralist bureaucrats now have set up a testing ground for one of the most revolutionary cities ever built.
The city will be named Dongtan. It is conceived to be a metropolis that’s being built from scratch 30-45 minutes from Shanghai on Chongming Island -- a marshy parcel of land at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
Later this year, developers will break ground on this one-of-a-kind green city the size of Manhattan. It’s estimated that half a million people will call Dongtan home by 2050.
The first condominiums and commercial space will be available on the market by 2010, around the same time that a 12-mile bridge and tunnel combination as well as a subway extension will link to Shanghai’s new international airport and the city’s financial district.
This megalopolis will be able to accommodate those that won’t fit into Shanghai -- a city that is growing three times faster than the United States economy at the peak of our dot-com era.
Investing in China: Privately Owned Land Breeds a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation (SIIC), the second-biggest builder in China, is the company developing Dongtan on Chongming Island. SIIC has owned the land since the 1990s. This is odd, considering nearly all the land in China is owned by the government. SIIC got its hands on the island after many Hong Kong companies’ assets were wiped out during an economic rough patch.
Originally, SIIC was the Shanghai municipal government’s Hong Kong operation as a public-private pharmaceutical and real estate company.
Shanghai Industrial Development Co. Ltd. (600748:SHA) is an available investment in this growing city. Currently, the stock trades for 25.15 CNY, or $3.29.
Working with SIIC is another company named Arup, a global urban engineering and design company that has no plans of IPOing. Arup is testing a radical approach with Dongtan, the first green city, as every block will be engineered in response to China’s growing environmental crisis. The city will run on local renewable energy, with super-efficient buildings in pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods. Dongtan is planned to recycle 90% of all its waste, while food will be grown on organic farms. There will be a ban on all vehicles that emit carbon dioxide.
(As further developments unfold, it would be extremely exciting to see what electric vehicle companies may receive contracts to pepper the city with its zero-emission trucks, vans, and other automobiles.)
While Arup is working with SIIC on Dongtan, it also plans to work on a small neighborhood outside of Shanghai, as well as a town near Beijing. It’s looking to make smaller green communities across the spread of China… and even one in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Investing in China: Company Reaping Benefits from the Kyoto Protocol
An Irish company called Treasury Holdings (also not publicly traded) was awarded a 1.2-billion-euro contract as a joint venture to work on Dongtan as well. This is Treasury Holdings’ first Chinese project. Treasury plans to become fully integrated into China business and culture over just the next five years and has aspirations to be the most successful Western property company operating in China.
A third company to keep an eye on in the unfolding story of the world’s first eco-city is Camco International (CAO:SEA). It gained admittance last year to the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). This company trades for about 83.50 British pounds, or $165 USD. Camco works extensively on projects around the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a market leader in China and Russia.
Camco’s operations are linked intricately with the Kyoto Protocol market. It sells carbon credits as well. The company has already worked on Chinese projects by reducing cement and coalmine methane emissions. Currently, it has 34 projects on the books in China to reduce 79 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2012.
I’m continuing to search out possible plays on this once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity, and will continue to update you as the story unfolds on Dongtan and more information is made available.
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