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In recent years, urbanization has grown rapidly in China. In 2019, 848 million people lived in urban areas, while 654 million people lived in rural areas.
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The Characteristics of Urbanization and the Formation of Urban System, LI Xiaojiang, ZHENG Degao.
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National Bureau of Statistics of China, China Statistic Yearbook, 2019 and 2020.
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Source Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development of the PRC, China Urban and rural Construction Statistical Yearbook, 2006–2017.
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Terminal energy use refers to the aggregation of heating, electricity and other energy use in the building sector. The calculation of energy use of building operation and building construction using terminal energy use method, smaller on the number compared with primary energy consumption method.
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Heating and electricity were converted to primary energy use and then combined with other terminal energy use case.
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The data came from IEA world energy balance database, and was converted based on the scale of China’s energy balance.
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Source National Bureau of Statistics, China Statistic Yearbook 2018.
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In this report, building materials mainly consider steel, cement, aluminum, glass and architectural ceramics.
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Refers to carbon emission from chemical reaction (excluding combustion) for producing cement.
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National average per kWh emission factor can be found in the Annual Report of China Electric Power Industry compilated by China Electricity council.
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Hu Jianxin, Report on China’s HFCs emission reduction analysis.
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Hu, S., Jiang, Y., Yan, D. (2022). China’s Building Energy Use and GHG Emissions. In: China Building Energy Use and Carbon Emission Yearbook 2021. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7578-2_3
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