Document And Entity Information	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2011	Nov. 07, 2011
Document Information [Line Items]
Document Type	10-Q
Amendment Flag	true
Document Period End Date	Sep. 30, 2011
Document Fiscal Year Focus	2011
Document Fiscal Period Focus	Q3
Trading Symbol	creg
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding		43,533,174
Entity Registrant Name	CHINA RECYCLING ENERGY CORP
Entity Central Index Key	0000721693
Current Fiscal Year End Date	--12-31
Entity Filer Category	Smaller Reporting Company
Amendment Description	In response to a comment letter received from the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), dated December 14, 2012, China Recycling Energy Corporation (the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) is filing this Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-Q/A to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2011, originally filed with the SEC on November 14, 2011 (the “Original Form 10-Q”) for the following purposes: (i) revise disclosures relating to the treatment of settlement shares issued to Xueyi Dong pursuant to that certain Biomass Power Generation Asset Transfer Agreement, dated June 29, 2010 between Mr. Dong and the Company; (ii) revise tables (three and ninr months) comparing our results of operations as a percentage of net sales and revise our discussions relating to non-operating income (expenses), income tax expense and net income in the Results of Operations section of our MD&A; (iii) revise our disclosures relating to basic and diluted earnings per share in Note 2 (to our consolidated financial statements); (iv) revise Note 12 (to our consolidated financial statements); (v) restate the fair value of certain settlement shares issued to Xueyi Dong in Note 16 (to our consolidated financial statements); and (vi) include a new Note 20 (to our consolidated financial statements) to describe the purpose and underlying reasons of this restatement and present the effect of this restatement on our financial statements.This Form 10-Q/A should be read in conjunction with the Company’s periodic filings made with the SEC subsequent to the filing date of the Original Form 10-Q, including any amendments to those filings, as well as any Current Reports, filed on Form 8-K subsequent to the date of the Original Form 10-Q. In addition, in accordance with applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer are providing currently dated certifications in connection with this Form 10-Q/A. The certifications are filed as Exhibits 31.1, 31.2 and 32.1. Because this Form 10-Q/A sets forth the Original Form 10-Q in its entirety, it includes both items that have been changed as a result of the amended disclosures and items that are unchanged from the Original Form 10-Q. Other than the revision of the disclosures as discussed above, this Form 10-Q/A speaks as of the original filing date of the Original Form 10-Q and has not been updated to reflect other events occurring subsequent to the original filing date. This includes forward-looking statements and all other sections of this Form 10-Q/A that were not directly impacted by this amendment, which should be read in their historical context.