Quotable

"If the nation fails to realize its energy saving and emission reduction targets for 2015, it will be even harder for it to reach the 2017 target for improving air quality and cutting emissions."

Li Junfeng, director general of the National Center of Climate Change Strategy Research. Economic and environmental officials have vowed to step up efforts in the next two years to ensure China's energy and environment goals are reached.

"With the increasing challenges brought by Internet companies, telecom companies need to take innovative actions to establish new growth points for the future."

Ji Chendong, an expert in technology, media and telecommunications. Facing stiff commercial competition, China's telecommunication giants are following in Alibaba's footsteps to launch online investment products as value-added services to keep customers and to win new ones.

"Industries catering to the elderly will grow at 10 percent each year within a decade."

Nie Meisheng, former head of the China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce. The business opportunities offered by China's rapidly aging population are a major attraction for investors and builders.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 05/30/2014 page18)