Officials with the Chinese city of Zhenjiang and foreign experts attend the Low-carbon City Day side-meeting on Monday, Dec 7, 2015 in Paris, France. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. [Photo: gmw.cn]

Officials with the city of Zhenjiang in Jiangsu province have been promoting their work toward low-carbon development at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

Zhenjiang has been tapped as one of China's pilot low-carbon cities.

As part of its goal, the prefecture-level city of just over 3-million people expects its carbon emissions to peak at 2020, 10 years earlier than the national target of 2030.

To achieve that goal, Zhenjiang, located just east of Jiangsu's capital, Nanjing, has become the first in China to establish a carbon emissions accounting and management program.

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is the UN's special envoy for Climate Change action in cities, is among those who viewed the demonstration put on by officials from Zhenjiang.

"The public, through their mayors and through television in every country around the world, China included, tell their leaders, 'we want something different, we want something better'. And the Chinese government is responding to that. You can see that every day."

As part of the session, a low-carbon joint action plan has been signed between the governments of Zhenjiang and the US state of California.