In 2007, the State Sustainable Community in Hanyang District of Wuhan included energy conservation and emission reduction as objectives in macro control measures and the governmental performance appraisal system, promoting the work in full swing. By this move, the Community met the requirement of the scientific outlook on development in a comprehensive way and carefully carried out the basic national policy of resource conservation and environmental protection.

It is a path pursued by the Community for sustainable development, featured by “energy conservation, efficiency, multilayer-structures and environmental friendliness”. It gave priority to people’s interests in sharing benign environment, and contributed to the transformation of economic growth pattern and leap-forward development in Hanyang District.