Environmental Engineering Reference
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Figure 1. Low-carbon economic system
in the whole industry structure. Take China for
instance, we has a poor three-industry structure
as a fast modernized and urbanized developing
country with coal as main energy consumption.
Though the third industry develops quickly, its
total increase number is always lingering in 30%-
40% of GDP which is obviously lower than 70%
in advanced countries and 50% in most develop-
ing countries (Zou D. T., 2008).Therefore, in the
path of low-carbon economy, China needs firstly
to plan three-industry structure reasonably. When
expanding the proportion of the third industry,
people should adjust inner structure of industry,
improve energy-saving and emission reduction and
advocate ecological recycle economy. Referring to
expansion of scale of the third industry and high
speed of its development, it is a tendency to carry
out low-carbon economy in the third industry.
Because economic development model of the third
industry is lower in consumption, less in pollution
and easy to transform, it bears the advantage and
possibility of transferring to low carbonization, it
can also plays the pioneer role the test low-carbon
economy. Hence, low-carbon economy needs the
support from the third industry.
Tourism is prominent in the third industry, and
it is regarded as one of the backbones in many
countries with largest industry scale and driving
development vigor with characteristics of high
development speed, broad involved industry,
wide influenced region and large number of
participants. Tourism directly involves tourism
scenery spot, hotel, travel agent, tourism trans-
portation, entertainment etc, and indirectly relate
to material suppliers such as agriculture, industry
and construction fields. Now the gross output
of tourism is more than 10% of global domestic
gross production, and it will speed up in 8%-10%
annually during 20 years, the number of outbound
visitors will reach 1.1 billion in 2010, and 1.6
billion in 2020. With expansion of tourism scale,
tourism effect is increasing. But the damage and
threats from this so-called “Green industry” to
environment and resource has not only affected
