Peking University began its environmental studies and researches as early as 1970s. In 1982, the

university’s interdisciplinary center of environmental sciences was established.

In the year of 2006, ten top universities around the world including Peking University jointly established the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), with the aim of enhancing the multilateral cooperation in research and education. The building of a green sustainable campus is one of the Alliance’s most important topics and also a long-term focus. The Alliance has set up a research workshop to discuss issues including environmental protection and energy resources, which has greatly promoted exchange among the universities concerning the study of such issues.

Considering that the environment problems bear on comprehensive and long-term efforts

and complicated situation, and in order to take full advantage of the multidisciplinary research, the university in 2007 set up the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering.

After more than thirty years of assiduous efforts and exploration, Peking University has set up a fairly integrated discipline system of environmental sciences. Apart from providing basic education and conducting forefront researches of environmental sciences, this system also serves to meet the demand of society and support the administrative policy making on environmental issues. Many achievements have been made in fields like wild life protection, bio-diversity study, new energy resources, global climate changes and bioremediation.

Through his long-time fieldwork, Professor Pan Wenshi made significant breakthroughs

in the studies of the wild pandas’ social structure, behavior patterns, surviving strategies and so on. He also made impressive progress in studying and protecting endangered wild animals including the white-headed leaf-monkey and the Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin. In the projects

The university widely uses green energy resources in the campus construction. Two geothermal wells

were constructed in the university to make use of the geothermal energy for heating. To further save energy and reduce emission, the university has made more investments to improve its energy-saving facilities. A central heating supervisory control system has been

installed, which helps save 400 thousand cubic meters of natural gas and 1600 tons of coal every year. To save electricity, since the end of 2005, lighting electricity savers, of which the average electricity saving rate is higher than 20%, have been used in some of the student dormitory buildings, classrooms and the streetlight system. Moreover, according to the requirements

Besides courses and professional training, Peking University pays special attention to bringing environmental

protection and sustainable development into the students’ campus life, and this has proved very effective.

Peking University now has six student environmental clubs, besides other sixteen clubs continually involved in activities of environmental protection. In 2006, the Environmental Education Base for Chinese University Students was established. It won the 2007 Toyota Special Award of the second

Toyota Environmental Protection Aid Program for China's Youth, which was handed out jointly by the Central Committee of the Youth League of China and the All-China Youth Federation. The Base conducted a lot of scientific innovation, “green campus” activities, educational promotion and international exchange.

Roughly estimated, in the recent five years, every year there have been more than 120 eco-environmental activities held in Peking University. Lots of faculties and students have been participants of these activities, which have become widely influential.

To Establish A Discipline System of Environmental SciencesTo promote cutting-edge researches on important environmental issues

dealing with the water pollution in the Shenzhen River and Xiangjiang River, the Institute of Environmental Engineering of Peking University provided useful scientific consultation in environmental evaluation, supervision and examination and also in the region’s aggregate planning, contributing

greatly to the region’s environmental protection. Professor Fang Jingyun worked on the spatiotemporal configuration and mechanism of China’s terrestrial carbon sources/sink, providing the basis for the country’s policy making on carbon dioxide emission. After the catastrophic Wenchuan

earthquake which took place in Sichuan Province in 2008, faculties and students of Peking University went to do field study in Wolong natural reserve in Sichuan, and their work covered the site selection of reconstruction, the layout of urban and rural areas and also development plans of villages and towns. The Strategic Research Report of the Reconstruction after the Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan presided by Professor Lui Bin was highly regarded by the central government. The research carried out by Professor Zhu Tong on the solution and policy concerning the control of air pollution in Beijing and surrounding regions greatly helped to guarantee the air quality during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Apart from all these achievements, Peking University launched many other successful researches in fields such as solar energy, wind energy and biomass energy.

As the world’s largest developing country, China, while enjoying its impressive economic boom, is faced with serious challenges in fields such as energy resources, environment, and climate

changes.

For this reason, the Report to the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the outlines of the country’s eleventh Five-Year Plan place a stress on the necessity of building a resource-conserving and environment-friendly society guided by the Scientific Outlook on Development.

In order to achieve this goal, not only are needed the government’s promotion and regulation and the extensive application of new technological achievements, but a repository of professional talents in eco-environmental protection, whose scientific accomplishments and humanistic concern are highly valuable.

Peking University boasts of its abundant teaching resources. In building a “green campus”, the university always lays emphasis on the comprehensiveness of knowledge teaching and the students’

knowledge structure, and has established a course system of environmental protection, which covers a wide range of subjects with the salient feature of interdisciplinary study. The university has opened up forty or so courses, which are closely connected with environmental education and sustainable development, in up to eleven disciplines. “Society and its Sustainable Development” has been taken as one of the central topics of the university’s selective courses. Every year more than 700 students select courses related to the topic, taking up about 1/5 of the freshmen. On the other hand, every year the university matriculates more than 200 undergraduates and graduates in environmental studies, whose knowledge and experience will make great contribution to China’s cause of environmental protection.

11 subjects, 40 courses relating to the environmental education • and sustainable development.

Social and Sustainable Development as the basic field for General • Education Elective in PKU

To Establish A Course System of Eco-environmental Sciences

To arouse students’ eco-environmental awareness and to cultivate professional talents

Course Major Sustainable Development Environmental Science

Environmental Ecology Science Physics

Environment and International Political Science International Policy

Human Beings and Environment Urban and Environmental Science

Environmental Law Law

Environmental Problems Environmental Science and Engineering

International Environmental Problems Environmental Science and Engineering

To Integrate Environmental

Protection Into Campus

Culture

in the Guidelines of the Administration and Technology for the Energy-saving Campus Construction of Colleges and Universities issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Education, the departments concerned are now carrying out a project survey of the university’s sustainable development and at the same time are setting goals of emission

reduction which are in concert with the university’s circumstances.

We can see from Peking University’s efforts to build a “green campus” that, through untiring scientific research, the university has contributed a lot to society’s sustainable development by providing plenty of scientific and technological basis for policy-making.

And the university has nurtured a large group of students who are well equipped with environmental awareness and knowledge.

Campus PlanningImplementing energy-saving and emission-reduction measures

To build a sustainable campus, the stress should be laid on

Scientific research and achievement on • environmental science and ecology

Professional training on environmental protection•

Environmental awareness in campus culture•

Calling on the whole society to participate in • environmental protection

implementing energy-saving and emission-•

reduction in PKU campus

Sustainable Campus Planning of PKU

Master Campus Planning of Peking University, • 2004-2014

Site Impact Traffic Evaluation on Master Campus • Planning of Peking University, 2005

Cultural Relics Conservation Planning of Peking • University, 2006

Office of Campus Planning andSustainable DevelopmentAdd: Room 1103, Red Mansion No.1 Peking University, No.5 Yiheyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China 100871

Tel: (86)10-62753567 Fax: (86)10-62755484E-mail: green@pku.edu.cn, litt@pku.edu.cn

Green Campus Websitehttp://green.pku.edu.cn•

Sustainable CampusPeking University

PKUCampusis home to

135 species of birds, and over 30 birds have • breeding populations, including national protected species

11 mammals•

385 higher plants•

Over 20 fishes in the lake•

On PKU campus, different bodies of water form a natural water system. The green area ratio is as high as 40%. Eighteen

lakes and ponds of different sizes and features are linked by meandering brooks. In spite of the vicissitudes of a long history, the layout of the ancient royal gardens in the university has been fortunately well preserved. These gardens, together with naturally grown woods, shrubs and wetlands, make Yan Yuan a rare secondary forest and wetland ecosystem—in Beijing. The ecosystem consisting of Peking University and the green areas in the vicinity has become the habitat of varieties of birds, insects and small mammals and therefore an important part of the whole layout of Beijing’s urban landscape and ecological security.

Zhou QifengPresident of Peking University

Finding A Way Suitable for PKU1. To establish a discipline system of environmental sciences and to promote cutting-

edge researches on important environmental issues.

2. To establish a course system of eco-environmental sciences, so as to arouse students’ eco-environmental awareness and cultivate professional talents.

3. To integrate environmental protection into campus culture.

4. To improve campus planning, and to implementing energy-saving and emission-reduction measures.

Master Plan of PKU