Study on Chinese Low Carbon Economic Model

Global warming, which is caused by over consumption of fossil energy during economic development in human society, threatens global ecological balance, tampers social and economic development, imperils energy security, ecological safety, water and food safety, and endangers the entire human race. Low carbon economy is a new economic development model based on low energy consumption, low pollution, and low-emissionbased. This paper analyzes the Status quo and Limits of the Chinese Low Carbon Economy, making deep research on Design and Implementation Strategy of Chinese Low Carbon Economic model. Therefore, the development mode based on low carbon economy is widely recognized in the world and becomes a goal of human development in the future. Low carbon economy is a new economic development model based on low energy consumption, low pollution and low-emissionbased, is another significant progress after agricultural civilization and industrial civilization in human history. Low-carbon economy covers almost all industrial fields. It calls for reducing the influence brought by economic development to carbon recycling in the ecological system, that is, decreasing carbon flux in the ecological system caused by economic activities of human beings, improving self-adjustment of the ecological system through cutting down carbon dioxide emission, reducing carbon sources and increasing carbon sink, and maintaining carbon balance in the biosphere and even ecological DOI: 10.4018/jabim.2010100105 58 International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management, 1(4), 57-64, October-December 2010 Copyright © 2010, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. balance on the earth. Low carbon economy, as a matter of face, relates to energy exploitation efficiency and clean energy structure. Its core lies in technological innovation, institutional innovation and ultimate change of human outlook on survival and development. Low carbon energy is the basic guarantee, clean production is the key point, recycling is the effective way, and sustainable development is the direction. On the one hand, China is short of energy, Chinese people have low per capita resource, and domestic environment is heavily polluted, so low carbon economy helps raise energy efficiency, improve energy structure and enhance energy security. On the other hand, low carbon economy is a necessary economic development mode in accordance with the China National Programs to Cope with Climate Change. China, as a big emission country of greenhouse gases, needs to lessen heavy realistic pressure and take international responsibility in ways of saving energy, reducing emission, transforming economic growth mode, creating an environment-friendly low carbon economic model, and gradually playing down dependence on high-carbon energies according to practical situations.