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We would like to share our experience, as well as learn from each other, to better cope with change in the media industry."

Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, at the first BRICS Media Summit in Beijing on Dec 1. Liu says BRICS nations are an important force in international relations and builders of economic growth, unity, cooperation and joint development.

"Damage evaluation is a big challenge in tackling environmental disputes, as it is a technical process that involves complicated calculations."

Wang Xuguang, deputy chief judge of the Supreme People's Court's Environment and Ecology Tribunal, says justices must change the way they handle environmental disputes, modernize their skill sets and stop favoring businesses over the enviroment."Increasing the retirement age can effectively slow down a long-term decline in the labor force, and is helpful in boosting social equality."

Du Yang, professor at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics, in comments for a green book released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, proposing a timetable for increasing the retirement age.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 12/04/2015 page3)