Ｌｏｗ Ｃａｒｂｏｎ Ｅｃｏｎｏｍｙ：Ａ Ｓｕｓｔａｉｎａｂｌｅ Ｅｃｏｎｏｍｉｃ Ｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｍｅｎｔ Ｍｏｄｅｌ

Price paid while development achieved

Since the reform and opening up in 1978， China has already paid a high price in its resources and environment despite the fact that a miraculous economic progress has been achieved. The country's sustainable development has-been in-creasingly thwarted by its accelerating resources exhaustion，environment pollution and biological deterioration. Without fundamental changes to its past resource-extensive economic growth model， it would be difficult for the fast-growing econ-omy to sustain its robust economic growth.