Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Thursday that China would
take firm actions to protect environment, increase the efficiency
of energy resources, develop the renewable resources and reduce
greenhouse gas emission.
"China would like to work with the other nations of the world to
deal with the global environmental issue," he said during a meeting
with the foreign participants of the annual meeting of China
Council for International Cooperation on Environment and
Development (CCICED).
Wen said the theme of the meeting, innovation and
environment-friendly society, was coincided with China's
development strategy.
The Chinese government would give prominence to building a
resource-conserving, environment-friendly society in its strategy
of industrialization and modernization, he said.
Wen said China had done a lot to fulfil this task and achieved
good results.
China's energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product
(GDP) dropped 2.78 percent in the first half of this year, and the
emissions of both sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand
dropped, he added.
He hoped the CCICED would play its role in promoting China's
sustainable development.
(Xinhua News Agency November 30, 2007)
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