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2011 marks the successful implementation of the 11th Five-Year Plan and the beginning of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan. During the past five years, China has withstood the global financial crisis and a series of unexpected events, achieved a steady and rapid economic growth in general, and become the world’s second largest economy. In 2009, given an intricate and volatile economic situation at home and abroad, the central government introduced a series of timely and important measures to cope with the crisis, which was also an opportunity for accelerating the transformation of the economic development pattern and putting more efforts into energy conservation and emission reduction. As an important aspect of the pattern transformation, green economic development received unprecedented attention in 2009. Green growth blessed everywhere across China.
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Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan were unmeasured due to lack of basic data.
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East China includes Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong and Hainan; Central China includes Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan; West China includes Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang; Northeast China includes Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.
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The proportion of non-fossil fuel consumption against total energy consumption and emission of carbon dioxide per unit of GRP were not calculated due to unavailability of data.
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Refer to the speech “focus on green city economy” delivered by Achim Steiner, Deputy UN Secretary General. http://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/20100703/11308228198.shtml.
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Lhasa and Urumqi.were unmeasured due to lack of basic data.
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Eastern cities include Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Jinan, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Haikou; central cities include Taiyuan, Hefei, Nanchang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan and Changsha; western cities include Hohhot, Nanning, Chongqing, Chengdu, Guiyang, Kunming, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Xining and Yinchuan; northeastern cities include Shenyang, Dalian, Changchun and Harbin.
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Resource: China Statistical Yearbook 2010, China Statistics Press, 2010.
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Measurement of data from China Statistical Yearbook 2010, and China Compendium of Statistics.
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Resources: China Statistical Yearbook 2007 and China Statistical Yearbook 2010.
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13 major grain-producing provinces (regions) were: Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Sichuan.
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See the keynote speech of Tang Yuan, Secretary of Research Office of the State Council, in “2010 China Green Industry Forum”. Source Sina Finance (http://finance.sina.com.cn/hy/20100627/09208187224.shtml).
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Measurement of data from series of China Statistical Yearbook.
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Measurement of data from China Monthly Economic Indicators, 2011, Issue No. 2, the China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center affiliated to National Bureau of Statistics.
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Measurement of data from 2010 China Statistical Yearbook for Regional Economy.
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Shi, F., Cong, Y., Zhang, L. (2012). Measurement and Analysis of Green Degree of Economic Growth. In: Li, X., Pan, J. (eds) China Green Development Index Report 2011. Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31597-8_6
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