China's effort to battle environmental problems and work out new, green resolutions will gain wider support from the international community and benefit the world through the Chinese experience, said members of a top environmental advisory body.
World Environment Day celebrations kicked off on Wednesday in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, the host city of the annual general meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development.
Officials and experts have called for concerted actions and constructive international dialogue to face global ecological and environmental challenges.
The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development has played an important role in introducing advanced environmental policies and practices in China with its high-level foreign consultations, a senior Chinese environmental official said.
Representatives from the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations have hailed China's rural development model, especially the country's efforts on poverty reduction.
Chinese scientists have discovered an estimated 5 million metric tons of lithium deposits in the central basin of Yunnan province, which could help reduce the country's reliance on imports.
Starting on Friday, about 10 million students will take China's national college entrance examination. Below, several students and a teacher reflect on the stresses and joys of taking the country's toughest and most influential test. Zhang Yi reports from Beijing, with Liu Kun in Wuhan.
I am from a county in Panzhihua, Sichuan province. When I was 6 years old, I accidentally touched a high-voltage cable and blacked out. When I regained consciousness, I found that my arms had been amputated. It was a huge blow. I was plunged into darkness.
I teach math at a high school in Beijing. I started teaching three years ago, and this week the first of my students will take the gaokao. They are nervous, and so am I.
I am not going to take the gaokao, because I have received an offer from the University of Waterloo in Canada to study for a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
Measures rolled out by the authorities to improve the care of children left behind by parents who move away from home and that of other juveniles facing difficulties have provided a timely lift for the millions of children in China and NGO leaders like Liu Xinyu.
Several ministry-level departments, including those for transport, education and health, have responded recently to issues of public concern.
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