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

By Bing Xue, Xing-peng Chen, Yong Geng, Xiaojia Guo, Chengpeng Lu, Zilong Zhang, Chenyu Lu. 2010

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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.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management

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Addressing the Social Aspects of a Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review (2020, background): “[51] propose that the CE can improve social welfare distribution, at the same time Gen and Dobertein [52] suggest that CE helps to further social justice.”
Circular economy in China – the environmental dimension of the harmonious society (2014, background): “However, even though close to 80% had heard about CE, only 13% claimed that they knew CE ‘very well’ (Xue et al. 2010, p. 1299).”
A review of the circular economy in China : Moving from rhetoric to implementation (2013, background): “A more surprising survey results have been given by Xue et al. (2010) that 16.70% of the interviewed officials (252 in total) had just heard of CE suggesting there is still a need for government officials to acquire more sophisticated understanding of CE.”
A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation (2016, unknown): “The limited progress in pilot cities with more homogenous structures is mostly attributed to the leadership’s vision rather than institutional capacities and public awareness (see also Liu et al., 2009; Xue et al., 2010).”
A systematic review on drivers, barriers, and practices towards circular economy: a supply chain perspective (2018, background): “A survey from Xue et al. (2010) reveals a result where only 16.70% of the people interviewed had heard of the circular economy; this figure indicates that there is still a serious need for government activities to educate the population about the circular economy (Su et al. 2013).”
The Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Concept and Application in a Global Context (2015, background): “The ultimate objective of this approach would be to achieve the decoupling of economic growth from natural resource depletion and environmental degradation (Liu et al. 2009; Xue et al. 2010).”
Material Flow Accounting: Measuring Global Material Use for Sustainable Development (2017, background): “Implementation barriers persist, however, including the speed at which current polluting industrial structures can be replaced, lack of funding, support for advanced technologies, a lack of environmental awareness in the public and private sectors, and the absence of effective enforcement mechanisms”