Low-carbon City in China

The establishment of low-carbon city is the key to achieving low-carbon future. Low-carbon city should give consideration to both low-carbon production and low-carbon consumption. Based on the rapid development of economy and continuous improvement of living standard, the low-carbon transformation of economical development, the consumption concept and living style is conducive to achieve the goal of low energy consumption and low carbon dioxide emission. The development of low carbon city is the need to cope with global climate change, which is also the must choice for China to guarantee sustainable development of economic society. As the second largest economy in the world, China is in the economical transition period. Actions need to be taken to speed up the development of ecology city construction according to our national condition, formulating and implementing related policy. Meanwhile, low-carbon technology and low-carbon industry should be vigorously developed to advance the green, cyclic and low-carbon development. We are striving for resource-saving and the environment-protecting industrial structure, production method and life style. To keep running in front in the third Industrial Revolution medium-distance, to complete the well-off society comprehensively and to realize the sustainable development, the reason why China has to choose the low-carbon road and the way of developing low-carbon city are analyzed in this paper. Then some specific requests to establish low-carbon city are put forward. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.