ACTUALITY AND PROSPECT ON CHINA NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
LI Jun-li1,2, CAO Ming-ming1
1. College of Urban and Environment, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127, China;
2. College of Geography and Tourist, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
Abstract：The China National Sustainable Communities (CNSCs) Programme, as one of China's first pilot projects for local sustainable development, was launched by the former State Science & Technology Commission(SCTC) in conjunction with State Planning Commission(SPC) and other central and local governmental authorities in 1986 in an effort to improve the overall sustainability of local development by relying upon the advancement of science & technology, the innovation of mechanisms and the construction of systems, to explore mechanisms and modes for the coordinated development of economical, social and resource environment for regions/areas of vary types, and to provide samples and demonstrations for the implementation of sustainable development strategies for vary areas. So far, there are as much as 108 CNSCs, covering more than 90% of China's provinces/autonomous regions/municipalities. To build CNSCs is an important experimental and demonstrations base in the sustainable development strategy carried in china. So many scholars from different fields pay more attention to the theories and experiments research on CNSCs when CNSCs were established. Based on the summary of developmental survey inland and the characteristics of sustainable communities' development outland, this paper collects 94 published Chinese papers on the CNSCs from 1986 to 2009 and divides the progress of these researches into three phases. It systematically summarizes the content, method and characteristics of every phase and analyses the deficiency of previous researching production. Then it examines the problems in the researches. Finally, the authors present possible study directions aiming at the bottle necks in the researches, which will contribute to breaking new ground on the study of CNSCs. Through 24 years development and construction, by the joint efforts and wide participation of state governmental authorities and local governments, and through the innovation and practices of the sustainable communities, the CNSCs Program has made great achievements, and has accumulated a lot of useful practices and experiences for local sustainable development. But it is still an issue which need a thorough inquiry in order to obtaining an important breakthrough progress.
李俊莉, 曹明明. 国家可持续发展实验区研究状况及其展望[J]. 人文地理, 2011, 26(1): 66-70.
LI Jun-li, CAO Ming-ming. ACTUALITY AND PROSPECT ON CHINA NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2011, 26(1): 66-70.
