Green and sustainable City will become the development objective of China’s Low Carbon City in future

Environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions are becoming significant environmental issues in china,thus the sustainable development and revival of the country is impossible using the conventional path ofencouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. in response to the global warming, the pricesof the traditional energy rise considerably, and a series of environmental problems, china must improve its ownmode of economic development. hundreds of chinese cities have billions of square meters of buildings and mostindustry and the annual energy demand is an astronomical figure. china’s government is facing increasing pressurein the low carbon international backdrop, and the low carbon city becomes the inevitable developmental directionof chinese city in the foreseeable future. the description is first centered on energy structure/energy consumptionper unit/urbanized status, and urban energy consumption status, and then concerned with the efforts andmeasures of chinese government, to realize the energy saving. finally, we present the developmental prospect andbarriers and the promotion measures related to the low carbon city under the government policy, financialincentives and funding supports, etc.