China is facing daunting challenges to address environment
pollution and ecosystem degradation with its remarkable economic
growth, and its future for a sustainable economic development
relies on efficiency improvement, said a United Nations
Environmental Programme official.
"The future for a sustainable economic development, I believe,
relies on cooperation across the world in industrial restructuring,
efficiency improvement, adoption of renewable energies, and
adjustment of the current modes of production and consumption,"
said UNEP deputy executive director Shafqat Kakakhel in his letter
to a recent economic forum held in Tianjin.
China has become a large economy in terms of nominal gross
domestic product, thus China's impact on global growth, resource
allocation, trade and investment has direct consequences for the
entire world, Kakakhel said in the letter.
In efforts to protect environment and build an energy-saving
society, the Chinese government will accelerate the establishment
of a standard scientific evaluation system on energy consumption to
meet energy and pollution targets, according to Xie Fuzhan, head of
the National Bureau of Statistics.
"China is playing an increasingly important role in the
international development arena, and taking on more and more
responsibilities in global environment governance and sustainable
development," said Kakakhel.
(Xinhua News Agency January 22, 2007)
