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Evaluation Report on the Construction of Environmentally Friendly Cities

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The report evaluated and analyzed the construction of the environment-friendly features of Chinese cities in 2013, ranking the top 100 cities and briefly analyzing the proportion of cities entering the top 100 in different regions. The report also pointed out that the best way to the sustainable development of Chinese urbanization was to establish sensible scientific plans conducive to improving the construction of eco cities and to building a new way of thinking with eco cities in harmony with man and nature, based on their ecological carrying capacity, and upholding resource-saving and environmentally-friendly principles.

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Chang, G., Zhang, Q., Shi, X. (2017). Evaluation Report on the Construction of Environmentally Friendly Cities. In: Liu, J., Sun, W., Hu, W. (eds) The Development of Eco Cities in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2287-6_6

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