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Hunan governor visits China Daily website
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2008-03-11 18:41


Hunan Governor Zhou Qiang answers a question during an interview with chinadaily.com.cn in Beijing March 11, 2008. Zhou visited the website office for an exclusive interview by Zhao Huanxin, deputy editor-in-chief of chinadaily.com.cn.[chinadaily.com.cn]

Blizzard-hit Province Warms to Green Outlook

Hunan will stick to the scientific outlook on development in its post-disaster reconstruction and local economic development, said provincial Governor Zhou Qiang in an exclusive interview with chinadaily.com.cn in Beijing on Tuesday.

The worst snowstorms and freezing rain that hit southern China in half a century rang alarm bells over the province's traditional model of natural resource development, Zhou said. He added adding that Hunan will learn from the costly lesson and try to expand its economy by 10 percent this year in a more environmentally friendly way.

Zhou said the efforts in fighting blizzards and restoring people's homes and livelihoods were completely successful, with transportation, power and economy back to normal, adding that no one in the province starved or froze to death during the winter disaster.

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