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Wolfgang Kinzelbach, a German-Swiss scientist, has been visiting China since the 1970s to help with water projects. Liu Xiangrui reports.

Since the late 1970s, Wolfgang Kinzelbach has often visited China. The 66-year-old former professor of hydromechanics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is a citizen of both Germany and Switzerland. In 1979, he became the first long-term scholar in a scientific exchange program between Germany's Max Planck Society and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Although he witnessed China's overall development in the past decades, he paid closer attention to environmental issues as a scientist. And according to him, there has been an imbalance between protecting the environment and the country's rapid development.