Abstract: The green development of China’ s economy is a necessary way to achieve the national strategic goal of“carbon peak and carbon neutral”,promote high-quality development,build a beautiful China,and construct an eco-logical civilization. However,a series of theoretical issues,such as the connotation of economic green development,theevolution of China’s green development policies,the evaluation methods,influencing factors and realization paths ofeconomic green development,have not reached a consensus,and urgently need to be further explored and answered,in the hope of making fundamental theoretical contributions to a profound understanding of China’ s economicgreen development, and providing theoretical references to China ’ s implementation of the new developmentconcept,the promotion of high-quality development and the construction of an ecological civilization. This paperfirst discusses the connotation of economic green development,secondly,it compiles China’s green development poli-cies,then it reviews the methods of evaluating the level of economic green development,and finally it discusses the in-fluencing factors and realization path of China’ s economic green development. The following four main conclusionsare drawn: First, there are no consensus definitions of green development and economic green development, andpeople have their own understanding to the definitions,but there is basically a consensus on its core connotation. Sec-ond,the evolution of China’ s green development policies could be divided into two phases:the period from 1973 to2010 is the budding and starting phase of policies;and the period from 2011 to the present is the accelerated phase ofpolicy formulation. Third, there are three main evaluation methods on the level of economic green development:green GDP accounting,measurement of green economic efficiency and comprehensive evaluation of economic green de-velopment. Fourth,China’s economic green development is jointly influenced by economic,environmental and socialfactors. Comprehensive measures must be taken to realize green economic development by enhancing scientificand technological innovation capacity,promoting industrial structure upgrading,accelerating the transformation of theenergy mix,and improving the institutional mechanism of green development.