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  1. Kitakyushu has approximately 443,700 people in employment (as of 2012), and is home to almost 48,000 businesses. The key industry is manufacturing, and major export sectors are steel and machinery.

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    The City of Kitakyushu has been very successful in turning one of its main problems, high levels of pollution in the 1960s, into a strength while applying the concept of green growth and developing an economy based on recycling and green industries, and sustainable and renewable energy.

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    Why is Kitakyushu a good place to live?
    The City of Kitakyushu has been very successful in turning one of its main problems, high levels of pollution in the 1960s, into a strength while applying the concept of green growth and developing an economy based on recycling and green industries, and sustainable and renewable energy.

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    Why is Kitakyushu a World Heritage Site?
    Kitakyushu City has transformed from a declining industrial city of Japan, to a significant tourist attraction and World Heritage Site. Industrial heritage tourism has emerged as a new type of economic activity in Kitakyushu City, despite that it is still in its early development phase.

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    Why was Kitakyushu so important?
    There was virtually none. Kitakyushu was one of the centers of heavy industry that was powering Japan’s “economic miracle” at the time. Steel mills, coal factories and chemical plants dotted the city, pumping untreated wastewater directly into Dokai Bay and soot and chemicals into the sky.

    A model city in Japan is helping Asian cities go green - UNEP

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    Is Kitakyushu a green growth model city?
    And along with Paris, Chicago and Stockholm, Kitakyushu was named one of four Green Growth Model Cities by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 2011. More recently, the organization chose Kitakyushu as one of its nine pilot cities or regions to advance the Sustainable Development Goals.

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  5. World Bank Group
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  6. MDPI
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  7. OECD iLibrary
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    Environmental and economic trends in Kitakyushu - OECD iLibrary

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