Smart cities, sustainable infrastructure, digital built environment

In the Media

Third-party media and government-portal coverage of SCSDA's establishment and its China-Europe research cooperation, 2017-2021.

Public Record

SCSDA in the public record.

The Academy's establishment and its China-Europe research cooperation were reported by national news agencies, provincial media, government portals and university news services between 2017 and 2021. The selection below lists third-party coverage only; each entry gives the publisher, date and original link so that readers can verify the record independently.

“The research institute that employed Han in Chongqing's Liangjiang New Area, the nation's first inland economic development zone, received a flurry of 40 resumes in just one week”
China Daily, 19 January 2021

Quoted verbatim from China Daily's report on talent attraction in Chongqing; the article notes that around a fifth of those applicants held doctorates from leading overseas universities.

Selected Coverage

Reports from news agencies, provincial media and public bodies.

Entries are listed in order of publisher reach and are limited to third-party sources. Where a report describes the Academy under its earlier project name, the institution is the same: the registered name “Chongqing Leuven Smart City and Sustainable Development Academy” came into use with the district approval of March 2019.

China Daily

Chongqing sets sights firmly on future
19 January 2021
National English-language daily; reports the Academy's role in attracting international research talent to Liangjiang New Area.
Original report

Xinhua News Agency (via Jiemian)

More than ten leading universities partner with Chongqing Liangjiang New Area
22 August 2019
Reports KU Leuven as the first foreign university to establish a research institute in the district, working on advanced sensing, BIM, intelligent control, structural materials, big data and IoT for urban infrastructure.
Original report

Chongqing Daily (via CRI Online)

Chongqing and KU Leuven sign cooperation agreement on a joint research platform
14 December 2017
Provincial daily; reports the science-and-technology cooperation agreement signed in Belgium that led to the Academy's establishment.
Original report — access may be restricted outside mainland China

Liangjiang New Area Administrative Committee

Research outputs supporting the city's digital upgrade
4 March 2021
District government portal; reports the Academy's applied work on bridge inspection using BIM, UAV and sensing methods, and a recycled-materials pilot on an expressway section.
Original report — access may be restricted outside mainland China

Hualong Net

Liangjiang New Area science and technology innovation alliance launched
19 July 2019
The Academy is listed among the first thirty member organisations of the district innovation alliance.
Original report

Shangyou News / Chongqing Commercial Daily

International research platforms move west to Chongqing
20 September 2019
Provincial coverage of research institutes established in the district, including the Academy.
Original report

Chongqing Jiaotong University

Postgraduate researchers complete a three-month exchange at KU Leuven
17 January 2019
University news service; documents two-way researcher mobility with KU Leuven's institute in Bruges, with reciprocal placements in Chongqing from March 2019.
Original report

Verification

How to read this record.

Links were checked in August 2026. Some Chinese government portals restrict access from outside mainland China; archived copies of those pages are available on request.

The Academy is a nonprofit applied research organisation established in Chongqing in 2019 with support from Liangjiang New Area and the municipal science and technology authority, drawing on research links with KU Leuven and other European institutions. Coverage is presented here as a public record of that cooperation, not as an endorsement by any of the organisations named.