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China’s Low-Carbon Urbanization Progress and Pathway

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  • Benfan LIANG

    (Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences MCC Tower, 28 Shungangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, P. R. China)

  • Jiahua PAN

    (Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences MCC Tower, 28 Shungangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, P. R. China)

  • Ying ZHANG

    (Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences MCC Tower, 28 Shungangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, P. R. China)

  • Yanchun MENG

    (School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing 10084, P. R. China)

  • Shouxian ZHU

    (Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences MCC Tower, 28 Shungangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, P. R. China)

Abstract

Low-carbon urbanization is the integration of urbanization and low carbonization. It is the low-carbon transformation of current urban areas, the new trend of developing model of urban and rural areas, which includes the low-carbon transition in production, living style, and ecological spaces, the low-carbon reform in economy, society, structure, and the developing model, as well as changing urban areas from high-carbon style to low-carbon style. The urbanization rate of China is almost the same with global average level, and is expected to reach 80% in 2050. Currently, urbanization replaces industrialization, becoming an important force influencing socio-economic development, climate and ecological environment changes, international relations, and political patterns. With a 2∘C rise in temperature, human beings have to face a series of risks brought by climate change. China’s large-scale urbanization is of great influence on others. In this context, it is necessary to take a scientific cognition of China’s urbanization process, clarifying urbanization developing pathway, turning carbon constraints into carbon bonus, avoiding high-carbon lock, and then to take opportunities in promoting economic structure under “new normal” conditions, accelerating the upgrade from urban civilization to ecological civilization, and to reach both 100-year goal and low-carbon developing goal, leading sustainable development globally.

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  • Benfan LIANG & Jiahua PAN & Ying ZHANG & Yanchun MENG & Shouxian ZHU, 2015. "China’s Low-Carbon Urbanization Progress and Pathway," Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies (CJUES), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(04), pages 1-20, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:cjuesx:v:03:y:2015:i:04:n:s2345748115500281
    DOI: 10.1142/S2345748115500281
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