双城+2024之对话南京（一）
Shanghai Nanjing Plus 2024:First day in Nanjing
9月21日，围绕可持续发展的主题，代表团在南京开展了系列参访与研讨活动。
On Sept. 21, the Shanghai Nanjing Plus 2024 delegation joined in a series of activities centered around sustainability in Nanjing.
上午，代表团访问了南京钢铁集团有限公司（以下简称“南钢”），考察企业数字化智能化转型的情况。
In the morning, the delegation visited Nanjing Iron and Steel Group Company Limited to study the digital and intelligent transformation of the enterprise.
代表们先后参观了智慧运营中心、金润智能制造厂，在约两层楼高的大屏幕上，钢铁生产与运输的全过程可视可控，代表团详细了解了南钢通过数字化转型推进生产高效协同的情况。
The members first came to Nanjing Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. (NISCO) and visited its intelligent operation center, where a big screen two floors high displayed the whole production and logistics process and its control by operators. The delegation learned about NISCO’s promotion of productivity and synergy through digital transformation.
随后，参观了大大减少人力投入的自动化生产线，以及处理钢铁冶炼过程中产生的废液废钢并进行二次利用的装置。
Then they visited the highly automated production line in the Jinrun intelligent manufacturing plant, and devices for treating and reusing waste liquid and scrap steel generated during steel production.
此后，代表团与南钢总裁助理李超、南钢产业发展研究院副院长车马俊等进行了座谈交流。团员们提问了关于企业国内外业务重点，节能减排的目标与做法，以及在环境、社会和公司治理（ESG）方面的努力，双方进行了积极坦诚的对话。
After the visit, the delegation had a deep and frank exchange with management and staff from NISCO. Questions touched on NISCO’s domestic and foreign markets, its targets and practices of carbon emissions, ESG efforts, among other topics raised by the participants.
下午，代表团一行在南京大学-约翰斯·霍普金斯大学中美文化研究中心（以下简称“中美中心”）举行了专题研讨会，从中美合作的视角与前景的角度，深入探讨可持续发展战略。
In the afternoon, the delegation arrived at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC) and attended a forum named “Strategies for Sustainable Development: Perspectives and Prospects in Cooperation Between China and the US.”
中美中心中方主任李晓蓉代表中心对代表团的到来表示欢迎。美方主任魏亚当主持研讨会。中心部分师生参与了研讨会。
The Chinese Co-Director Li Xiaorong warmly welcomed the delegation on behalf of HNC, and American Co-Director Adam Webb chaired the discussion. Some HNC faculty and students also joined.
研讨会围绕可持续发展与社会发展，政治模式与技术创新，以及国际背景下机遇与障碍三个主题展开。
The forum consisted of three segments, on sustainable development and society, political models and the implications of technology, and constraints and opportunities in the international context.
中美学者畅所欲言，从可持续发展的定义、不同国家对于可持续性的理解、有关可持续性的媒体报道中中美形象对比、不同政治体制下的科技创新模式、应对气候变化领域国际竞争与合作等多角度，发表见解，气氛热烈。
Both Chinese and American scholars expressed their opinions freely regarding the definitions of sustainability and how it is understood in different countries, the images of China and the U.S. in media reports about sustainability, interaction between technological innovation and different political models, and international competition and cooperation amid the challenges of climate change, among other topics. The audience of current HNC students also has opportunities to raise comments and questions.
