Quotable

Hot dry rock could make a great contribution to cutting China's emissions and solving our energy problems."

Wang Bingchen, an official of the National Geothermal Energy Center, speaking about a source of geothermal energy that was detected in Shandong province recently.

"The law will help bring more competent TCM doctors to the patients."

Wang Guoqiang, head of the State Administration of TCM, commenting on China's first law supporting traditional Chinese medicine, which was passed by the top legislature on Dec 25.

"Putting together Israel's spirit of innovation and capacity for thinking outside the box and China's ability to produce everything with such efficiency and speed - this is a win-win."

Peretz Lavie, president of the Israel Institute of Technology, speaking about the coming Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 12/30/2016 page2)