China will demand that new buildings in cities achieve mandatory energy-saving standards and renovate existing buildings to make them greener by 2015, China’s Xinhua news agency reported the country’s top economic planner as saying.
The standard of green buildings, which are resource-and energy-saving and environmentally friendly, will be adopted on all government-invested buildings from 2014, said an official with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), who declined to be named.
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