How to Popularize Green Residential Buildings in China: A Survey Study from Sichuan

Abstract

Green buildings have been ushered in a period of rapid development in China. For there are few researches on economic benefit analysis, a result that most of Chinese people don’t want to purchase residential buildings because of misunderstanding that green buildings have a higher cost. This paper focuses on how to popularize green residential building in China. In order to achieve the goal, the field survey is carried out, qualitative and quantitative descriptive methods are used to analyze the statement of green residential building in Sichuan Province. There are two important conclusions. Firstly, the incremental cost control of green building in our province is relatively reasonable. However, the incremental selling price is much higher than the incremental cost. Secondly, ordinary people can accept is much lower than the selling price. Finally, in order to improve the popularization of green residential building, some suggestions are provided.