Hefei's Low-carbon Development

ALTHOUGH adjacent to the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone,Hefei belongs to Central China and its economic development lags behind eastern coastal cities.Traditionally an agricultural area,with per capita arable land of just 0.1 hectare,it is impossible for the millions of farmers that make up most of the city’s population to get rich.A solution to this is industrialization and urbanization,a course that Hefei has been pursuing for the past few years.All around the city,new apartment buildings are springing up to accommodate the rural laborers that are flowing into the city.These laborers find jobs at the newly built factories scattered in the development zones in Hefei’s suburbs.Many