In the People’s Republic of China, policy-makers have introduced GPP into procurement practice. Since 2006, when the country launched its approach to GPP, billions of Chinese yuan renminbi worth of certified environmentally friendly goods have entered the market (International Trade Centre, n.d.), many of them purchased by the public sector. Nonetheless, as this working paper argues, there is large potential for further upscaling both the volume and the stringency of green requirements in GPP.