Study on the Differences of Urban Forestry Demands of Citizens in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China

Abstract

From a global perspective, urban forestry plays an important role in improving the living environment of urban citizens, expanding the space for urban development, improving human health and well-being, and promoting sustainable economic and social development. In China, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities have made remarkable achievements in urban forestry development in recent years, which changes people’s demands for urban forestry accordingly, especially for citizens living in the large cities. The degree and dimension of the demands for cities are constantly increasing. In order to study the public demands for urban forestry in the large cities of China, this paper selects Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou as the research area, using the method of single factor analysis of variance from gender, age, education, marital status, health status to discuss the three urban citizens in urban forestry total demand, education demand, health demand and recreation demand. The results show that :(1) There is no gender difference in the demand for urban forestry between Shanghai and Guangzhou. Only there is a difference in the educational and cultural demand for urban forestry between males and females in Beijing. And the educational and cultural demand of females is slightly higher than that of males. (2) Unmarried people in the three cities generally have higher educational and cultural demand for urban forestry than married people. (3) In different cities, people of different age groups have different demands for urban forestry. Beijing citizens lay more stress on the educational and cultural demand of urban forestry, Shanghai citizens lay more stress on the recreational demand of urban forestry and Guangzhou citizens lay more stress on the health demand of urban forestry.