Green building policies in China: A policy review and analysis

The policy trajectory of green building development in China: A sequential and network analysis

“…The topic of building performance includes three core policy objectives, such as promoting building energy efficiency, realizing energy saving and emission reduction in the building sector, and promoting resource saving. These policy objectives suggest that reducing negative environmental effects is the main goal of GB development, which is in line with the concept of GB defined by China's government, known as "Four-saving and one-benign" (Hu et al, 2023). Meanwhile, reducing energy consumption through the GB development has been included in several 5-year plans (Zou et al, 2017).…”

“…The policy texts were collected from policy databases and professional websites, such as the PKLAW database, which provides the most up-to-date and reliable database in full text (Hu et al, 2023). In addition, the official websites of Chinese government departments were reviewed as supplementary.…”

“…Meanwhile, the inefficiency of the policy system the GB development in China has been highlighted by a few researchers, such as Wu and Xu (2013), Li et al (2014), Jiang and Payne (2019), Chen et al (2020), Song et al (2021). Thus, it is necessary and urgent to systematically and comprehensively review China's GB development policies, which have been considered as the precondition of optimizing the policy system of GB development (Hu et al, 2023).…”

“…As Wang et al (2021) pointed out, the national law and regulation system of GB has been well established in developed countries, and these developed countries have entered a full implementation stage of GB (Kong & He, 2021). As the global largest energy consumer and contributor of CO 2 emissions, China's GB development has profound global implications (Hu et al, 2023; Zhang et al, 2018; Zou et al, 2017). Compared with developed counties, GB development in China started relatively late and has a different pattern (Li et al, 2014; Zhu et al, 2021; Zou et al, 2017).…”

“…Numerous studies have been conducted on GB development policies, which can be categorized into the following aspects: (1) exploring the effects of policies on GB development (He & Chen, 2021; Kong & He, 2021); (2) assessing the effectiveness of GB development policies (Rana et al, 2021; Shi et al, 2014); (3) reviewing and analyzing the policies on GB development (Hu et al, 2023; Ling et al, 2015; Liu, Tan, & Li, 2020). Ling et al (2015) reviewed more than 80 GB standards in China and developed a system scheme for green building standards.…”