An evaluation of Chinese eco-city development based on daily lifestyle study:Taking Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city as a case study

After the rapid large-scale but rough development in China since 1978, environmental issues occurred at the same time. As a result, China started to pay attention to environmental protection and try to seek a way of decoupling economic growth and the environment. Eco-city is regarded as a solution widely supported by the central government. After learning from international experience, China has explored a distinctive way to develop eco-cities within the specific Chinese context. This paper aims to evaluate the development of Chinese eco-cities. Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is taken as a case study to analyze based on daily lifestyle of its residents. A total of 22 interviews, and three days of potential observations were collected in this study as a database. Summative content analysis is applied with 15 keywords and three categories. Policy suggestions are provided at the end aiming to overcome the current existing weakness.