China’s Green Cities Goals

Qian Zhimin, deputy director of the National Energy Administration, stated that about 100 cities in China should be powered through alternative energy sources by 2015; 200 counties should receive their energy through “unconventional” means; and 1,000 model sites and 10,000 towns should exist in China by 2015.

One such model town is Yujiapu, in the Tianjin municipality. “Yujiapu is set to be a low-carbon financial district leading the nation,” according to Liang Benfan, a senior researcher with the Institute of Urban and Environment Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 260 enterprises have invested in the Yujiapu financial district in 2011, with a total capital registered for the project of about 60 billion yuan ($9.27 billion).

Source: China Daily