Abstract
Western China is not only an important ecological conservation area, but also has rich natural resources and environmental conditions. Therefore, the western China must vigorously develop green low carbon economy to realize the win-win of natural ecological environment protection and socio-economic development. At present, the western China has not only great potential in technology progress, industrial upgrading and energy saving and emission reduction, but also has good endowment conditions and comparative advantages in the development of agricultural carbon sequestration, eco-tourism and clean energy development. Therefore, the western region in China should make full use of these advantages to promote low carbon economy development. At the present stage, the western China should actively promote industrial upgrading and structural optimization, comprehensively implement natural ecological protection engineering, reasonably develop and utilize mineral resources, fully utilize renewable clean energy resources, promote eco-tourism, give priority to organic ecological agriculture, and accelerate urbanization and urban ecology-oriented development.
Highlights
The western region in China covers 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities with a total area of 16.85 square kilometers, accounting for 71.4% of China’s land area
Because the western region in the process of attracting investment and industrial transfer is difficult to attract advanced industries due to the constraints of development environment, the existing level of emission reduction technology is limited and the great gap exists compared with the eastern region [15]
The extreme lack of regional innovation talent in industrial system will weaken the development of pillar industries in the western region, which brings a great obstacle to low carbon development [14]
Summary
The western region in China covers 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities with a total area of 16.85 square kilometers, accounting for 71.4% of China’s land area. Water resources and mineral resources in the western region are rich, and the proportion of natural forest and grassland is larger than others, accounting for 66.2% and 89.4% of China’s total natural forest and grassland, respectively. Because the western ecological environment system is important and relatively fragile, how to scientifically develop and implement comprehensive ecological environmental protection is an important problem to be solved in the social and economic development of the western region. In this case, vigorously to develop low carbon economy has very important practical significance. In order to avoid the recurrence of environmental protection mode of “first development and governance” in the east, it is of great significance to ensure socioeconomy and ecological sustainable development
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