UNDP hails China's balanced economic growth, environment
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The Chinese government has set up environmental protection agencies to build capacity with the confidence to balance economic growth and protection of enviroment, visiting United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark told Xinhua on Tuesday.
Clark made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Xinhua after a high-level roundtable discussion on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Climate Change held here during her four-day visit to the east African country since Saturday.
"China is also going to be an enormous producer of low-cost, low-carbon technology. The price will come down, which is good for developing countries looking for renewable form of technologies," the former Prime Minister of New Zealand said.
Commenting on China's poverty reduction process, Clark said, " We can learn a lot from what China has succeeded, in particular, in moving people from countryside to the city, a trend of urbanization for the development of the industry and manufacture."
She added that the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, under the theme of "Better City Better Life", is a showcase of incredible city life.
Meanwhile, the UNDP chief also hailed China's efforts to build rural areas into towns and small and medium cities.
On the benefit of China's experience of poverty reduction to African countries, Clark said that the International Poverty Reduction Center in China, based in Beijing, jointly initiated and established by the Chinese government, the UNDP and other international organizations in December 2004, is looking for collaboration by organizing a wide range of activities, and promoting knowledge sharing and South-South learning through organizing a series of training courses, with the overall goal to enhance poverty reduction process and contribute to worldwide poverty reduction.
