The higher education is experiencing a rapid development in China, with the sharp increase of energyuse and the low level of campus facility operation. Meanwhile, with the responsibility for knowledgetransformation, Sci-tech talents cultivation and technical innovation, universities are of great importancein the development of the sustainable society. The initiative of green campushas attracted greatattention from both the society and the universities themselves. Therefore, it is very meaningful to get afull understanding of the current status of green campus development in China, and make the feasibilityplanning for the next step on this base. In this paper, the progress of green campus development in Chinais summarized, including all the initiatives to conduct the energy and resource efficient campus, and thecurrent status of upgrading the energy and resource efficient campus to the green campus; the problemsoccurred during the development are analyzed, and the possible approaches and the action plan areexplored accordingly, to promote the green campus development. It is found from the analysis that thedevelopment of energy and resource efficient campus has been expanded in a large scale in China,mainly aiming at the energy efficient technology application and campus energy management, and allthese initiatives are strongly promoted by the national government with policy support and financialfunding. With these great endeavors, an upgrade from the energy and resource efficient campus to thegreen campus is on progress, which expands its scope to sustainable education and the initiative of low-carbon life on campus. However, many problems also occurred during the progress, such as the lack ofagood top-level design among different national ministries and the collaborative innovation amongdifferent departments in the university, and the need of a practical propulsion mode and a long-termmechanism to guarantee green campus development. Hence, some suggestions are made in terms ofthe administrative management, propulsion approach, evaluation standard, and action plan.

 Development of Green Campus in China