What they say

It resonates a lot when the Chinese premier mentions how important the (global) environment is for a growing and sustainable economy. It's something which we relate a lot with the Chinese authorities, and we had excellent cooperation with China on that message, so I think it's very encouraging.

Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Premier Li clearly is a trained economist and he spoke in a way that I think really reached out to this audience. They want to know some specifics - for example, what are China's goals, how it's going to get there. He raised a number of issues. He talked about integration, free trade and sustainable growth rate, very important for this audience. He talked about China willing to trade off a little bit of growth for the focus on reforms, again very important.