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Paradigm Shift Towards Green Industry Restructuring: A Review of Industrial Land in China

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Recent years, “Green” has become a crucial principle in the worldwide economy and environment sustainable development. A certain number of western countries resorts to take relevant projects and now, much have been done to achieve economic restructuring. For the purpose of investigating paradigm shift towards green industry restructuring of China, the paper starts with reviewing industrial park policy evolution from the 1980s and analyzes dilemmas of industrial land as well as industrial park construction thoroughly. Particularly, more attention will be paid on elucidating the contents of wantonly spread industrial park, mass energy consumption, together with environment stress in the study. Recommendations from the perspective of energy structure and local financial revenue are present for green transformation on the base of situations at home and abroad.

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The authors appreciate the kind financial support from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71373231).

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Luo, J., Wu, Y., Zhang, X. (2018). Paradigm Shift Towards Green Industry Restructuring: A Review of Industrial Land in China. In: Chau, K., Chan, I., Lu, W., Webster, C. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6190-5_96

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