China’s impending entry into WTO will provide a historic opportunity for the country to adjust its economic structure and facilitate the building of a more environment-friendly economy, said a senior legislator November 7 in Xiamen, a scenic coastal city in southeast China’s Fujian Province.
Qu Geping, chairman of the Environmental and Resources Protection Committee under the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, made the remark at an environmental protection seminar.
According to the legislator, China’s entry into WTO will lead to a booming tertiary industry and a more prosperous secondary industry, but its primary industry is expected to shrink against the backdrop of the country’s national economy.
He added that while the production of grain and cotton might decelerate, such sectors as stockbreeding and fruit and vegetables growing will further develop.
Experts here also believe that after WTO entry, China is sure to import more grain and other agricultural products, and as a result, Chinese farmers will use smaller amounts of fertilizers and pesticides.
The legislator said that the knowledge economy and the recycling economy are the two new trends of the global economy, and it is a must for China to follow these two trends if the country intends to establish a sustainable economy.
He said that the advocating of a recycling economy is a breakthrough from the notion of comprehensive utilization of trash, and is also a new theoretical mode for a traditional economy to develop into a sustainable economy.
The legislator stressed that the recycling economy is a systematic project which needs not only advanced techniques, but also a new set of rules and procedures, as well as the cooperation of both enterprises and government organizations.
(People’s Daily 11/07/2000)
