New Perspective in Urbanization development: Climate should be included in urban development plan

According to the new national urbanization plan, by 2020, the permanent resident urbanization ratio will reach 60% and household register resident ratio will reach 45%. As the urbanization trend continues, urban environment, ecological construction, those sustainable development related content will be the focus. Especially the huge impact brought to the urban environment due to industrialization and urbanization will further influence the economic and social development.


1.       Urban air quality is worsened because of industrial emission, automobile exhaust, intensive urban buildings and weakened air exchange. Urban development must include climate and there’s a long way to realize urbanization. Energy conservation and emission reduction is a necessary way to control air pollution and an important measure to improve urban environment.

2.       The urbanization construction will not only include the natural hazard prevention and treatment in to consideration, but also need to focus on the regional climate change. Issues such as global warming, effective recycling usage of resources and frequent occurrence of extreme weather are obvious; therefore regional climate change must be included in urban development scheme.

3.       Besides to include the climate in to the scheme, evaluations of ecological city construction also needs to be included in urban construction. Urban Climate Map should be set in order to make this evaluation. Right now, 15 countries including Germany, Sweden, Britain, Portugal and Japan are carrying out urban climate map research. More than 50 countries have their own urban climate map. Evaluation Method that is practical while integrating the foreign experience, adapts to the ecological construction of China is also being set up by IEAS China.

  1. Another important way to improve the urban environment and lower the air pollution is to use new energy such as solar and wind power. Weather is important in influencing the efficiency of energy usage.