Norway, China in ecology projects

SHANGHAI - Cooperation between China and Norway on environmental protection has moved forward with the drawing up of lists of projects around the country at the Shanghai Expo 2010 Garden.

A two-day seminar on Sino-Norwegian Environmental Collaboration at the expo, held in the Norway Pavilion earlier this month, was jointly organized by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China and Norway's Environment Ministry. Issues under discussion at the seminar included biological diversity, climate change and pollution control.

"Norway has been a most important bilateral partner for China, involving great attention and assistance. Since 1995, we've launched the bilateral environmental cooperation, and have achieved results on cooperation projects involving air and water pollution control, hazardous waste management and protection of biological diversity, environment monitoring and supervision." Lu Xinyuan, chief engineer of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, said in a speech to the forum.