Green Development Model of China’s Small and Medium-sized Cities

1. Front Matter

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2. Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Green Development: The Choice of Our Times

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      Pages 3-8

   3. Green Urban Development—Goals and Requirements

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      Pages 9-19

   4. Key Areas of Green Development for Small and Medium-sized Cities

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      Pages 21-33

   5. A Strategy of Green Development Model

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      Pages 35-40

3. Special Reports

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Land Consolidation and Development of Small and Medium-sized Cities

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      Pages 43-55

   3. Efficiency Improvement and Institutional Innovation for Urban Land Utilization

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      Pages 57-82

   4. Study of Low-Carbon Development Path for Small and Medium-sized Cities

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      Pages 83-95

   5. Green Education Boosts Green Development

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      Pages 97-107

   6. Experience and Lesson of Green City Development at Home and Abroad

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      Pages 109-113

   7. Establishing the Compensation Systems for Use of Resources and for Damage to the Ecological Environment

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      Pages 115-130

4. Typical Cases

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Holding the Ecological Red Line, Writing a New Chapter of Development—Kunshan

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      Pages 133-139

   3. Building an Ecological Garden City—Suining

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      Pages 141-144

   4. Watertown on the Plain, Ancient Cultural City—Green Yangzhou

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      Pages 145-148

   5. Integration of Culture and Nature—Ningguo

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      Pages 149-153

   6. Building a Beautiful Pixian County with Improved Ecology, Higher Standard and Greater Affluence

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      Pages 155-160

   7. Most Beautiful Bay on Yangtze River, Most Attractive City in Jiangnan—Zhenjiang

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      Pages 161-166

The book discusses how to establish a land-use system for small and medium-sized cities in order to promote low carbon economic development and to ensure sustainable development. It also presents the objectives and requirements of urban green development: The first objective is to establish a green city with ecological harmony. The second is the establishment of a people-oriented harmonious city, which is important for the green development of city. Drawing on past experience and combining this with the current situation in China’s cities, it argues that the construction of people-oriented harmonious cities should be a priority. The third objective is to build multi-functional organic cities in which the urban function is relatively independent. Lastly, the fourth objective is to establish a city with unique charm, applying historical ways of thinking to today’s world.

• Green Development
• Urbanization
• Small-medium cities
• Urban land reform
• Low carbon

• Urban Development and Environmental Research, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

  Xuefeng Li

• Chengdu Academy of Social Sciences, Chengdu, China

  Xuke Liu

Li Xuefeng, born in 1977,associate research fellow and professor at Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His primary area of research is urban economics.

Liu Xuke, assistant research fellow and professor at Chengdu Academy of Social Sciences.His studies focus on development economics.

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