TY - JOUR A1 - Zhang, Y A1 - Kang, J A1 - Jin, H Y1 - 2018/02/02/ PB - MDPI IS - 2 KW - Science & Technology KW - Technology KW - Energy & Fuels KW - energy-saving KW - history of green building KW - assessment standard TI - A Review of Green Building Development in China from the Perspective of Energy Saving UR - http://doi.org/10.3390/en11020334 VL - 11 N2 - This paper reviews the history of green building development and assessment standards in China, particularly from the perspective of energy saving. It is divided into four parts: (1) the development of policies of green building in China that have been proposed for meeting energy-conservation and emission-reduction targets; (2) the scientific research on green building by the Chinese government, including the promotion of maximum resource sustainability, environmental protection, and the reduction of pollution; (3) the development of assessment standards for green building in China; and (4) the development of green building technologies in China. AV - public EP - 18 JF - Energies N1 - © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). SN - 1996-1073 ID - discovery10046943 ER -