2009CPL international award announced in Hangzhou, China won the two prize

October 19, 2009, 2009 cities. Light (City. People.) International Annual Conference was held in Kwangju, South Korea, the general assembly for the 2009CPL International Prize Award for the city. Finland Jyvaskyla was awarded the first prize, China Hangzhou and Switzerland pulled thousands of young won the two prize, the Hangzhou canal lighting project received high praise from the conference. Once a year the city. Residents. Lights (City. People. Light) International Award by PHILPS international city lighting and Lighting Association (LUCI) jointly established, aims to reward those who meet the modern city life demand by lighting strategy reasonably, and respect for the environment, the city residents, the lights for the harmony and unity of the city, to promote government departments and the consciousness of the city architect for the lighting contribute to the sustainable development of city construction.

This year, the global total of 20 city submitted entries, composed of architects, designers and lighting Lighting City Lighting Management of the jury for the selection of these works, the selection from the lighting project how to reflect the city's cultural and historical heritage, highlight the city night personalized features, whether on the environment contribute etc. as the evaluation standard. The conference has a total of 5 city has won awards, in addition to the first prize by Finland Jyvaskyla, two prize award Chinese Hangzhou and Switzerland pulled thousands, in addition, there are Copenhagen in Denmark and Germany Morse has also received a special award.

This is the PHILPS CPL Award for seventh years, before taking part in the CPL prize of the city most concentrated in the European countries, now this award has been more and more countries to participate in, such as China, Russia and India, many parts of Asia and Latin America in the city have been involved, so this award to the international. At the meeting, the Hangzhou canal lighting project as the award-winning city of Hangzhou, China, the representative of the lighting project by the public attention.

This year, the completion of the Hangzhou canal by the famous French lighting division Roger Narboni in charge of design. In the light of the project, the ancient Hangzhou canal and modern lighting technology to achieve the perfect blend of the latest. Through the light to show the canal with 2400 years of history and charm. The light not only created a beautiful scenery for tourists, but also enriched the local residents of the night life. PHILPS lighting for the canal to bring energy saving and has a rich color of the LED landscape lighting system, for the reconstruction of the light of the traditional project into the ink like elegant spirit. Designers use the light effect, light fog and natural water, combined to create a soft and romantic blue green light fog belt, with the time and season changes continue to extend. The light is not only soft and beautiful, but also long life and energy saving. After the completion of the Hangzhou canal lighting project, the charming night attracted many residents and tourists come to play, the amount of tourists increased to 3 times before.

PHILPS lighting global senior vice president, chief operating officer of Olivier Piccolin Asia Business Mr. Bi Bailing said: "in the city to speed up the process of global CPL, the future development of the city has brought new ideas. PHILPS lighting advocates to highlight the characteristics of the city through the lighting, the city should be people-oriented, the pursuit of sustainable development, improve people's quality of life. The Hangzhou canal is a representative case of PHILPS in China's urban lighting project, which depicts Hangzhou's nightly business cards and shapes the new image of Hangzhou. We will use CPL as a platform to help more cities realize the harmonious and sustainable development of residents, cities and lights. "