China

In this study, questionnaire survey and field measurement were conducted for the houses with the elderly in urban and rural areas across 6 regions of China, during heating period. As the results, the prevalence of hypertension was found around 40% in both urban and rural areas. In the northern regions, the room temperature in urban residences was stable at around 20°C, and in rural areas this temperature rarely reached 20°C but it fluctuated greatly.

This paper aims at pointing out that how a District Cooling system can be a more energy efficientsolution compared with a decentralized cooling solution. In order to give a fair comparison, the authorapplies equivalent electric power coefficient of performance. This comparison approach will beinstructive for designing an energy efficient cooling solution in China.Firstly, the paper gives the definition, components and possible energy source of a District CoolingSystem.

Building energy simulation has proved useful in the development of building energy codes (especiallyperformance-based) and subsequent code compliance checking. A weather year is required for thehourly computation of heating/cooling loads and corresponding energy consumption. Many locationshave measured daily solar radiation data, but not hourly. Attempts were made to model hourly globalsolar radiation (GSR) data from measured daily values using the Liu and Jordan method for Harbin,Beijing, Shanghai, Kunming and Hong Kong.