Survey of officials’ awareness on circular economy development in China: Based on municipal and county level

Bing Xue, Xing-peng Chen, Yong Geng, Xiao-jia Guo, Cheng-peng Lu, Zi-long Zhang and Chen-yu Lu

Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2010, vol. 54, issue 12, 1296-1302

Abstract: With rapid industrialization in China, both resource scarcity and resources efficiency have challenged the country's sustainable development. Under such circumstance, circular economy should be adopted as a national development strategy. However, due to a lack of understanding current barriers on implementing circular economy, it is necessary to conduct a questionnaire based survey. The data and information used in this paper were collected by distributing questionnaires in 6 cities and interviewing 252 respondents. Our research findings indicated that while most of officials working at municipal and county levels have higher awareness and understanding on circular economy concept and its significance, nearly 16.70% of the interviewed officials had just heard of circular economy indicating that there is still a need for government officials to further improve their circular economy awareness. Government officials can receive their circular economy knowledge through awareness raising activities thus obtaining higher circular economy awareness. The main barriers on circular economy development are weakness of public awareness and lack of financial support, the prior method on pushing circular economy development is to execute compulsory regulations, which is shared by about 61.11% of all respondents; the gap between policy-making and practical action is still a serious problem. Nearly half of the respondents are not willing to pay more money for green products.

Keywords: Circular economy; Awareness; Government official; Regional development; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2010.05.010

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