China's Eco-city Construction by Jingyuan Li & Tongjin Yang

Author:Jingyuan Li & Tongjin Yang
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

The NDRC, the MOHURD, the Tianjin Municipal Government, and the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE) held the Second China (Binhai Tianjin) International Eco-city Forum & Expo (Binhai Forum) on September 23–24, 2011. NDRC Deputy Director Xie Zhenhua attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech titled “Promote opportunities through green low-carbon development for low-carbon cities” at the main forum, proposing a number of measures for low-carbon cities. (1) He proposed optimizing the industry mix; developing the service sector and emerging strategic industries such as energy conservation, environmental protection, and new energies; and preventing energy-intensive, high-emission industries from rapid growth. Enhancing binding targets for energy conservation, environmental protection, land use, and safety, eliminating obsolete production equipment and technologies, and promoting the transformation of traditional industries for an energy-efficient, low-carbon industrial system further aid optimization. (2) He recommended optimizing the energy mix, controlling total energy consumption, strengthening cleaner production and coal use, and developing clean, efficient, high-capacity coal-fired generation units. Further steps include increasing oil and gas exploration and development, developing unconventional oil and gas resources, and developing nonfossil energy sources. Safe nuclear power, eco-friendly hydropower, wind power, solar power, biomass, geothermal energy, and other renewable energy sources can be developed based on local conditions. (3) He proposed strengthened energy conservation and low-carbon development management, energy efficiency benchmarking activities, and energy conservation and emission reduction projects in buildings, transportation, and other sectors. The “10,000 low-carbon businesses” initiative can help the industrial sector, the “green building” initiative can help the construction industry, and the “1,000 low-carbon transportation companies” initiative can help the transportation sector. Energy conservation and emission reduction can be better applied in agriculture, rural areas, commerce, households, and public institutions, and low-carbon projects are needed across society, including building low-carbon governments, campuses, and avenues. (4) He recommended accelerating research, development, and application of low-carbon technologies, strengthening basic scientific research on greenhouse gas emissions control, and researching and developing of cutting-edge technologies critical to reducing carbon. Governments should offer incentives for the broad application of energy conservation and carbon reduction technologies and equipment and support energy-efficient motors, semiconductor lighting, low-frequency waste heat utilization, and other important low-carbon technologies to advance their production and application.16

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