Premier Zhu Rongji said Thursday that China will invest more in
environmental protection in the coming years and carry out a
strategy of sustainable growth.
Zhu made the remarks during a meeting with Chinese and foreign
officials and experts who are attending an annual conference of the
China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and
Development.
Established in 1992, the council is a senior advisory body for the
Chinese government on environment and development. Chinese
Vice-Premier Wen Jiabao chairs the council and Leonard Good,
president of the Canadian International Development Agency, is one
of the co-vice-chairmen of the council.
Zhu said that the Chinese government has realized the importance of
environmental protection and sustainable development over the past
years and has injected an unprecedented amount of money into the
cause.
He
praised members of the council for their efforts to help China's
environmental protection work, and thanked them for their
suggestions in environmental protection and achieving sustainable
development in China's western region.
Good and Crispin Tickell, chairman of the British Government Panel
on Sustainable Development, among other foreign members of the
council, said they were very impressed by the progress China made
in environmental protection over the past few years.
(People's Daily 11/03/2000)