A comparative study on the quality of China's eco-city: Suzhou vs Kitakyushu
A comparative study on the quality of China's eco-city: Suzhou vs Kitakyushu
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DOI：
10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.08.005
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发表时间：
2015-12
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Yan Li;Limin Qiu
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作者：
Yan Li;Limin Qiu
中国正在经历快速的城市化，这对当地城市的环境以及地球仪的资源和生态带来越来越大的压力。因此，中国政府一直在全国范围内大力发展生态城市，以实现可持续发展。本研究回顾了中国政府生态城市框架的发展历程，并通过国际案例研究的比较分析，考察了中国生态城市的质量。苏州（中国）和北九州（日本）这两个案例都被誉为各自国家生态城市的最佳实践。比较分析使用了中国国家生态城市框架的19个指标。结果表明，苏州在绿色空间营造和环境基础设施建设方面取得了显著进展。然而，在各种指标，特别是环境质量表现的巨大差距，揭示了中国城市，即使是所谓的生态城市的污染水平差。城乡差距和能源消费效率也需要更多的关注。提出了生态城市框架的建议，包括提高环境标准，建立环境质量复查制度，纳入废物回收利用指标，设计一套新的社会方面的指标。
China is experiencing rapid urbanization, which increasingly brings pressure on the ambient environment of local cities as well as the resources and ecology of the globe. Hence the Chinese government has been taking vigorous efforts in developing eco-cities across the nation to pursue sustainable development. This study reviews the development of the eco-city framework of the national government of China, and investigates the quality of Chinese eco-cities through an international case-study comparative analysis. The two cases, Suzhou (China) and Kitakyushu (Japan) are both honored as the best practice of eco-cities in their respective countries. The comparative analysis uses 19 indicators of the Chinese national eco-city framework. Results show that Suzhou has made remarkable progress in green space creation and environmental infrastructure construction. However, huge gaps in various indicators, especially the environmental quality performances, reveal the poor levels of pollution in Chinese cities, even in the so-called eco-cities. The rural–urban disparity and the energy consumption efficiency also call for more attention. Recommendations are made for the eco-city framework including raising the environmental standards, setting up a re-examination system in order to ensure the environmental quality, incorporating indicators related to waste recycling, and designing a new set of indicators for the social aspect.