The 36-month SWITCH-Asia project “Sustainable Public Procurement in Urban Administrations in China (SUPP-Urb)” has been completed on 4 December 2011 in Beijing, China. For getting more information about the implementation of this project, especially outputs and impacts of this project, please refer to the brochure of this project.

The Public Consumer – Municipal governments in China – experience from a SWITCH-Asia project in Tianjin, Lanzhou and Qinhuangdao

Traditionally, Governments are seen a legislators, policy makers and facilitators. In these roles governments do influence the behaviour of consumers directly and indirectly with various signals including taxes, standards, prices, but information and education. The fact that Governments and their public administrations are major consumers themselves has been increasingly recognized. Public consumption in Asia typically account for 20-30 per cent of the national products and services. Read more ….

 

Relevant links

   International
    SWITCH Asia Network Facility
    http://www.switch-asia.eu/

Global Ecolablling Network     http://www.globalecolabelling.net/

    International Green Purchasing Network     http://www.igpn.org/

   China
   China Green Procurement Network
   http://www.cgpn.org/

    Ministry of Environmental Protection of People’s     Republic of China
   http://www.mep.gov.cn/

  Ministry of Finance of People’s Republic of China     http://www.mof.gov.cn/caizhengbuzhuzhan/

  Europe
    EU Commission - Green Public Procurement     http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/index_en.htm

   ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) -    Sustainable Procurement
   http://www.iclei-europe.org/index.php?id=procurement

    LEAP Green Public Procurement Toolkit    (http://www.leap-gpp-toolkit.org/)

China’s SPP Policy Framework

SPP offers immense potentials for resource efficiency, emissions reductions, innovation and development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). All these are goals defined in Article 9 of the Government Procurement Law of the Peoples Republic of China. Read more…

How did SuPP-Urb drive change towards SPP?

Public procurement practices in China are very different from those in Europe. Only in some instances European experiences can be transferred and customised, in some cases capacity needed to be developed in China. Read more…

What impacts did SuPP-Urb achieve?

SuPP-Urb was not designed as a classical pilot project that mainly focuses on creating replicable direct impact. Instead, it went beyond direct emissions reductions and aimed at achieving indirect effects and, eventually, policy uptake for long-term change. As a consequence of differing impact dimensions SuPP-Urb has several different target groups both on local and national level. Read more…

 

What SuPP-Urb can contribute to the future of SPP in China

One approach in Chinese policy making is to take successful examples of local pilot projects and promote wider implementation across the country via national regulation. Impacts and lessons learned from the SuPP-Urb project qualify the three partner cities as exactly such pilot cases. However, not only implementation in case study cities can serve as example for scaling up. Looking at the impact chain reveals a variety of actors, such as regional suppliers or business associations, and channels such as the Internet or specialised media for driving change beyond the local level. Read more…