ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC INCENTIVE POLICIES... 45area (including all one-, two-, and three-star green buildings) covered
83 million square meters, accounting for only 2 % of the total building
area in 2003 (National Bureau of Statistics of China 2014 ; The Eleventh
Session of the China 2014 ). This chapter seeks to answer the following
questions: What led to the current green building situation? What barriers
and problems are there in green building development? How solutions
can be worked out to overcome these barriers? Our research methods are
designed to answer these questions.
Fig. 3.2 Number of green buildings in China between 2008 and 2013
Fig. 3.3 Number of green buildings in 28 provinces and cities in China in
2008–2013