General regulations of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development for solar energy

What does the Ministry of Housing & Urban-Rural Development do?

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China was established in 2008 as a ministry under the State Council responsible for the administration of construction projects in China. The main responsibilities of the ministry are: To guide the planning and construction of rural and urban areas in China;

Will China make urban and rural development green by 2035?

Unveiled on Oct 21 by the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, China's Cabinet, the document vowed to make urban and rural development green in a comprehensive manner by 2035.

What is a building & construction regulation?

This is the first mandatory regulation for carbon emissions from buildings and construction, and its scope is wide—including existing buildings, new buildings, construction commissioning and approval, renewable energy systems, as well as buildings operations. Why now?

How can China reform urban and rural development?

To reform urban and rural development, Zhang said the guideline includes an action plan to integrate the country's ambitious climate goals－ensuring carbon dioxide emissions peak before 2030 and realizing carbon neutrality before 2060－into the building sector.

Will urban and rural development be'modernized' by 2025?

Urban and rural development will be essentially "modernized", according to the document. To realize the targets, the country aims to establish the necessary institutional mechanisms and policy systems for green urban and rural development by 2025, it said. Green production and lifestyles will be widely adopted by then.

What is the Green Building Regulation?

This regulation is intended to solve multiple issues in the existing green regulatory framework, introducing mandatory policies around green buildings, including for the first time a clear mandatory standard for carbon emission intensity, which solves the problem of no clear quantitative index requirements for building carbon emissions in the past.