Quotable

"As the economy rapidly develops, it's time we work on boosting our ecological environment of our habitat with all our efforts."

Dai Bingguo, former State councilor of China, saying at a news conference on July 19 in Guiyang, ahead of the opening ceremony of the Eco-Forum Global Annual Conference on July 20, that while learning about how to cope with ecological degradation from developed countries, China will come up with its own environmental protection methods.

(China Daily European Weekly 07/26/2013 page3)