Notice of Retraction Assessment of Urban Low-Carbon Economic Development in Longgang District, Shenzhen, China

Notice of Retraction After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles. We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper. The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org. Low-carbon economy (LCE) is a new approach of economic development under global climate change and energy crisis, and evaluations of its influence on the regions around the world have been the current hotspot. The paper selected Longgang in Shenzhen as the study area. Based on the substance and characteristic of LCE as well as its principles of establishing related index system, its current situation in Longgang was reviewed and the evaluation index system was obtained. Also, the paper determined the weight of indexes by entropy weight method after data standardization and got a comprehensive assessment conclusion of LCE development during 2005-2009. The result indicates that, as an area of the economy developed rapidly in China, Longgang has a continuously increasing LCE, which will actively promote LCE of the country.