The Necessity and Importance of Evaluating the Health Effects of Greenspace in China

During the past decades, the world has experienced rapid urbanization and industrialization, which brings huge economic development and convenient to people’s daily life, but also cause severe environmental pollution, including reduced greenspace exposure levels. According to the Biophilia theory, people has an innate affiliation with nature environment. Researchers, especially those from Europe and North America, have performed many studies to explore potential effects of greenspace on health, the underlying mechanisms, and also has suggested some urban greening policies. Compared to those developed countries, the study on greenness and health in China started later, but there also have accumulated a number of studies. Considering that China also has experienced rapid urbanization and a huge number of people are now living in urban area, which pose great challenge for people’s access to greenspace. Thus, it would be very needed and meaningful to summarize these studies conducted in China, which would be useful for policy makers and researchers in this field.