China´s circular economy strategy and its impact on regional industrial metabolism: A case study in Suzhou city

Author

Hongpin Mo ; Zongguo Wen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Environ. Sci. & Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 May 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the new strategy implement by charactering current urban industrial metabolism and identify the impacts of the mentioned strategy after 4-year implement, as well as give some policy suggestion. Suzhou city, as a major manufacturing center with per capital GDP over 10000 USD was chosen as our case, there were 2 National Circular Economy Pilot Units (Industrial parks) located in Suzhou city, so we consider the city a pioneer of the new strategy.

Keywords

economic indicators; government policies; industrial economics; manufacturing industries; socio-economic effects; sustainable development; China circular economy strategy; Industrial Parks; Suzhou city; government policies; manufacturing center; per capital GDP; regional industrial metabolism; sustainable development; urban industrial metabolism; Biochemistry; Cities and towns; Economic indicators; Electronics industry; Energy efficiency; Manufacturing industries; Metals industry; Production; Recycling; Research and development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sustainable Systems and Technology, 2009. ISSST '09. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4324-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSST.2009.5156704

Filename

5156704