Since the 1980s, the rapid develoment of the Guangdong province in China has drawn much attention from various fields including the economic development, social development and global environment. The urban sprawl in such an area results in the rapid land use conversion from agriculture to industry or service so that the previous small town has been evolved to a middle city containing more than a million of people. Furthermore, because of its proximity to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, the huge foreign investment promoted the industrialization and motorization in the Guangdong province. Accordingly, the demands on energy, infrastructure and labor and so on increase drastically, and the environmental issues become recognizable and serious. This research aims to meet the increasing urgent need to comprehensively understand the relationships among the economic development, energy consumption and environmental issues in the south CHina. Such a study would be profitable for the global and local environment as well as for the local economic development.
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