胡鞍钢编著的这本《中国--创新绿色发展(英文版)》从人类历史总体进程和世界视野出发，以绿色发展为主题，以绿色工业革命为主线，以绿色发展理论为基础，以中国绿色发展实践为佐证，展现了中国的伟大绿色创新，展望了人类走向绿色文明的光辉前景，设计了中国绿色现代化的目标与蓝图。本书用鲜活的事实、生动的案例反映了千千万万的中国“愚公”如何不停地创造着绿色奇迹，描绘着“最新、最美、最绿”的中国大地。

Chapter One Introduction: Entering the Green Industrial Revolution

 1.1 Purpose of the Book: Innovative Green Development in Theory and in Practice

 1.2 International Background: the Continuously Expanding Gap Between Humanity and Nature

 1.3 The Domestic Background: Becoming the Innovators of Green Revolution

 1.4 Research Issues and Framework

Chapter Two The Theory of Green Development

 2.1 The Three Sources of the Theory of Green Development -..

2.1.1 The Unity of Nature and Humanity in Traditional Chinese Philosophy

2.1.2 Dialectics of Nature in Marxist Philosophy

2.1.3 The Theory of Sustainable Development in Modern T~ ""

 2.2 The Meaning of Green Development

 2.3 Green Industrial Revolution: From the First to the Fourth Industrial Revolutions

2.3.1 Economic Perspective of Green Industrial Revolution ""

2.3.2 Main Features of the Green Industrial Revolution

2.3.3 The Most Important Goal of the Green Industrial Revolution: Full Decoupling

2.3.4 The Results of the Green Industrial Revolution: Toward an Era of Green Civilization

 2.4 The Three Major Systems of Green Development: Social, Economic, and Natural

 2.5 The Wealth of Green Development: From Nominal GDP to Green GDP

 2.6 Stages of Green Development: From Ecological Deficit to Surplus

 2.7 Green Innovation and the Tunneling Effect

 2.8 The Contents and Pathways of Green Development

Chapter Three Global Ecological Crisis

 3.1 Development Model of Black Industrial Civilization ...

3.1.1 Huge Invisible Natural Capital Depletion and Development Costs

3.1.2 Excessive Consumption, Expenditure, and Emissions "'"

3.1.3 High Ecological Footprints and Huge Natural Resource Rents

 3.2 Unprecedented Global Crisis

3.2.1 Global Environmental Pollution Crisis

3.2.2 Crisis of Global Energy and Resources

3.2.3 Extreme Climate Change

3.2.4 Global Ecological Crisis

 3.3 Green Development Opportunities

3.3.1 Rapid Growth of the Green Economy

3.3.2 Greener Industrial Structure

3.3.3 Rapid Development of Green Energy

3.3.4 Accelerating Green Technology Innovation

 3.4 Embracing the Forthcoming Green Civilization

Chapter Four Green Developments in China

 4.1 Historical Trajectory: From Natural Deficit to Surplus

 4.2 Agricultural Civilization--Slowly Expanding Natural Deficit

 4.3 Industrialization--Rapidly Expanding Natural Deficit

 4.4 Reform and Opening-up--the Natural Deficit Dramatically Increased, then Slowly Shrank

4.4.1 From Massive Energy Consumption to Integration of Energy Consumption

4.4.2 From a Large Greenhouse Gas-emitting to a Low-carbon Nation

4.4.3 From Pollution Emissions to Emission Reductions

4.4.4 From Ecological Destruction to Construction

 4.5 Twenty-first Century: Toward a Natural Surplus Ohapter Five Green Development Plan

 5.1 National Plan to Promote Green Development

5.1.1 Period of Black Developmen~First to Fifth Five-Year Plans

5.1.2 Initial Transition--Sixth to Eighth Five-Year Plans

5.1.3 Further Transition Ninth to Tenth Five-Year Hans

5.1.4 Turn to Green Development--Eleventh to Twelfth Five-Year Plans

 5.2 Eleventh Five-Year Plan--Turning to Green Development

 5.3 Twelfth Five-Year Plan--Green Development as the Theme

 5.4 Main Functional Area Planning--Remaking the Economic Geography of a Green China

 5.5 China's Green Development Planning Road

Chapter Six Local Green Practice

 6.1 Green Beijing--Building a World-class Green Modernized Capital

6.1.1 Green Beijing Road Map

6.1.2 How Should Beijing Become Green?

 6.2 Reforested Chongqing--Rising Green Star in the West

6.2.1 History of Chongqing--U-Shaped Curve

6.2.2 Chongqing Today--Leader in Forestry Construction

6.2.3 Future of Chongqing--A Model of Ecological Civilization

 6.3 Ecological Qinghai--Providing China with its Largest Public Goods

6.3.1 From Industrial to Ecological Province

6.3.2 Elimination of Ecological Poverty as the Highest Priority

6.3.3 Protecting the Source of the Three Rivers--Providing Large Public Products

 6.4 Green Transformation in Local Areas