This Transition to a Green Economy in China’s Jiangsu Province: A Stocktaking Report summarizes and analyses the successes and good practices of Jiangsu, and aims to provide lessons for other provinces and countries on promoting green economy. The report also identifies the challenges and priorities for Jiangsu’s future green economy work, which can provide reference and guidance for upcoming PAGE work in the province and in China as a whole.
Since 2011, Jiangsu has adopted a series of green economy policies related to industrial upgrading and greening, ecological and environmental protection, green consumption and trade, green employment and ecological services for poverty alleviation, among others. But various challenges still remain.