2012年，对于国际城市而言，无论是成熟型城市，还是崛起中的城市，都面临加快拿出增长与发展的新路线图紧迫任务。这份路线图的形成，必须基于对城市发展理念的彻底再思考，必须谋划出不同于以往的转型与创新举措，是国际城市发展模式的全面升级。可以称之为国际城市2.0版。
For world's cities, 2012 is the year that everything has to be reconsidered.The crisis hurts the world economy so deeply that we have to question our economic growth model so as for the world city theory and practices.In this spirit, we name the new version of world cities' development model as World City 2.0.
