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PRESENTATION

Future is now

SR21, created in 2002, is the Reunion Island (French Oversea Department) agency for the sustainable development and innovation. We are a Public/Private Regional Body working for the Reunion Regional Council.

HISTORY

On the initiative of Reunion Regional Council, SR21 created together with the economic and social actors in Reunion, a referential document named “PR2D” (the Reunion Plan for Sustainable Development), which gives an outlook of Reunion Island in the year 2030.

In the long term, this program has for objective the mutation of the economical model of Reunion Island.

With the “PR2D”, many projects for the benefit of sustainable development were created, such as “Reunion in 2025”, “Reunion: Green Island”, or the “Gerri” program which is supported by the French President.

Under this context, SR21 is in charge to assist operationally the regional council.

BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

PR2D - Innovation department: counseling project for the benefit of sustainable development and cooperation

Economic department: expertise in codevelopment and international management consulting; assisting companies in their international development

EES (environment, energy, superstructures) department: studies and actions for the supervision and realization of High Environmental Quality urban structures

RELATIONSHIP HISTORY BETWEEN CHINA AND REUNION

January 2003: visit of the Ambassador Mr. Wu Jianmin and of the first Chinese delegation conducted by Mr. Zeng Yan

November 2003: visit of the Regional Council President Mr. Paul Verges to China

March 2004
: visit of Mr. Chen Tieli and signature of an agreement betweem TIEC (Tianjin international exchange center) and SR21

July 2004: visit of Mr. Shi Chunseng, deputy of Tianjin / mission in China

November 2004: Tianjin delegation for the Mascareignes exhibition fair

February 2005: Opening bureau and representation of Tianjin Municipaly in Reunion, SR21 by Mr. Jian Wu

October 2005: delegation of SR21 conducted by Pierre Verges in China 1 st sinofrench decentralized cooperation meeting in Wuhan

December 2005
: Setting up of the ChinaReunion Operational Committee gathering Reunion Council, SR21, chambers, Reunion University, and the head of Chinese Association

March 2006: SR21 mission to Tianjin and Beijing Institutional and private contact with French, European and Chinese

November 2006: mission CTR (Reunion Island Tourism Organization) and SR21 to the international tourism fair in Shanghai CITM under the French pavilion

June 2007: Audiovisual Minister delegation conducted by Ms. Zhao Shi, the SARFT viceminister and Mr. Pu Tong, cultural counseling minister at the Chinese embassy in France for the opening ceremony of the Chinese film festival in Reunion

September 2007: delegation of 7 Beijing tour operators together with a representant of “Maison de la France”

November 2007: Official delegation conducted by Ms. Du Juan, state viceminister of the Ethnic Minority Affairs in China and Mr. Bai Guangming, cultural counselor at the Chinese embassy in Mauritius Island
Regional Council delegation to the 2nd Sino french decentralized cooperation meeting in Bordeaux, France

June 2008: opening of SR21 representative office in Tianjin represented by Ms. Gaelle Hao Law Chong