Strategic Thinking for Low Carbon City in China

Abstract:

City plays an important role during the national economic and social development. It is also a crucial and useful way to solving some complex or urgent problems, such as environment and resourses. So, strategic thinking for the development of China’s city is really necessary. This paper starts from some concepts and ideas of low carbon economic and low carbon city based on that we make sense of the meanings of the low carbon city in China. In turn, the backgorund of city development, which mainly foucses on the issues of spatial structure analysis, relationship between urbanization and industrialization, and urban energy consumption is introduced. Then, it can be concluded that rapid urbanization and industrialization will promote energy consumption and a low carbon mode as developing direction should be adopted for city. Accordingly, optimizing economic structure, enhancing energy efficiency, changing life style and developing low carbon technologies are defined as the key areas for developing low carbon city.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 433-440)
• Pages: 1474-1477
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.1474
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Yi Jun Liu
• Keywords: Low-Carbon City, Low-Carbon Economy (LCE), Urban Energy Consumption

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