For new buses and taxis, the percentage of pure electric vehicles is not lower than 70%; for new official cars, the percentage of new energy vehicles is more than 70%; for private cars, the purchase tax is exempted. Besides, subsidies are provided for new energy vehicle producers and sellers, and charging infrastructure operators.
By 2015 and 2020, new energy vehicle is totaled 50,000 and 100,000, with carbon emission reduction of 500,000 and 1000,000 tons in one year. By the end of 2014, there have been 10,000 new energy vehicles, new energy buses accouted for more than 20% of all buses,81 fast charging stations and about 3000 charging piles have been built,saving about 70,000 tons oil and reducing 220,000 tons carbon emissions in a year.

By 2014, some actions have been done and outcomes have been achieved in the field of industrial energy efficiency.About 14,000 enterprises with low energy efficiency have been obsoleted. The energy consumptions of key energy-consuming enterprises have been monitored. And the moter efficiency has been improved. The target of 20% energy consumption reduction of 2015 has been achieved in 2014.

1. Several policies including "Promotion Approach for Shenzhen Green Building" have been issued to promote carbon emission reduction in buildings. By 2015, the green building area is about 20 million square meters.
2. Promote energy conservation in new buildings as well as existing buildings, especially government office buildings and large public buildings. Develop strict energy-efficiency standards, promote energy consumption statistic, audit, and monitoring, encourage residents to make building energy-saving renovation.
3. Promote the application of renewable energy in buildings, including solar water heater, Building Integrated PV and so on. By 2015, the capacity of Building Integrated PV reaches 16MW.
4. Develop the green building industry and green building materials, promote waste reduction and recycling use. By 2015, the recycling rate of construction waste is over 60%.

1. Strictly follow the basic ecological line, prohibit illegal logging and excessive development and promote the construction of nature reserve and national park.
2. Strengthen forest management and encourage different social sectors to take part in afforestation; by 2014, the forest coverage rate has reached 41.5%.
3. Promote greenway network construction, to realize at least 1.0 kilometer greenway per square kilometer by 2015. Expand the city green space, and increase per capita park green land area to 16.9 square kilometers by 2015, and 17.4 square kilometers by 2020.

The development orientation of the Low-Carbon City is to become a national comprehensive demonstration district of low-carbon development, and to explore a new urbanization road by renovation and transformation as well as industry transformation and upgrading to realize rapid growth in quality and gradual reduction of carbon emissions in the urban built up areas. By 2020, the International Low-Carbon City is expected to have a gross GDP of RMB 24.5 billion, per capita carbon emission intensity of less than 5ton/person, and carbon emission per RMB 10,000 GDP of less than 0.32 ton, reaching the average level of EU countries of the same year.

The low-carbon design principles were adopted in the planning of the Low-Carbon City. There are several features of the low-carbon planning as follows:
1. Integrated Industrial and Urban Development
Construct a special structure of ‘One Axis & One Belt, One Core with Three Centers, Cross Development, and Cluster Layout’to enhance the concentration of industrial functions, living and services. Job-housing balance. Strengthen the composite clustering of different industrial functions with life and service. Green space. Form an open ecological system considering the requirement for ecological protection, ventilation and heat dissipation, flood and waterlogging control, and geological disaster prevention. 50% of land will be ecologically used for mountains, forests and rivers.
2. Low Carbon Transportation
Form a perfect transportation system with highways and metro lines in the periphery, as well as preferred public transportation, well-aligned main lines and secondary lines, and improved walkways in inner rings, to effectively unify clusters, blocks, stations development, driving and walking distances.
3. Low Carbon Municipal Engineerging
Establish intelligent municipal service facilities to use distributed energies and renewable energies in a graded way, implement low impact development of wastewater treatment, reuse of reclaimed water, common pipes and trenches, and permeable pavements.
4. Green Building
Promote the application of green building materials, low-carbon technologies and products. New buildings should 100% meet the green building standard, while existing buildings will be renovated to meet the low-carbon and green standard.
5. Low Carbon Community
By taking a low-carbon community as basic unit, guide low-carbon industrial communities, living communities, and public service communities to create ecological and livable low-carbon communities with premium services and convenient transportation.
6. Low Carbon Industry
Principles for industry selection: low carbon emission, large development potential, little impact the ecological environment, strategic industry, high relevance.