Speaking Notes at the 2nd Meeting of CCICED Phase Ⅲ

摘要

I warmly congratulate the opening of the Second Annual Meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. China has made significant achievements in economic development. It has successfully reduced its population in poverty from 100 million in 1986 to 28.2 million at present. We are especially happy to note China has also made important progress in meeting its environmental challenges. With 1.3 billion people and an official goal to quadruple economic growth by 2020, China's environmental performance will not only determine the well being of its own people, but will have consequences for the whole planet. Sustainable development is the only solution. To develop China into a well-off society and adopt a sustainable industrialization mode - this topic we are going to discuss at this meeting is most important and relevant.