Promoting Green GDP for More Balanced Development

摘要

Environmental issues have been high on the agenda at recent sessions of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), especially in 2005 and 2006. China's latest Five-Year Plan (FYP, 2006) includes a pledge to reduce energy consumption per unit of output in the next five years (2006-2010). Accordingly, the Chinese government has begun to design mechanisms which are expected to prevent government officials from continuing the single-minded pursuit of gross domestic product (GDP) growth and help them to realise the government's environmental goals.