Red Dragon conserving!
Nov. 14th, 2007 by AlChina rural population has never been exposed to this level of knowledge about overseas development due to the advent of TVs, radio and net.This presents a unique challenge to the leadership as rural masses wants to catch up with their urban counterparts in pursuit of the ‘good life’.
Energy is the cornerstone of all modern developments and it only has so much in our world. Hence environmental concerns are secondary to all this but fortunately china leadership realised this and promoted a “conservation culture” by President Hu to the 17th party congress.
The dragon been consuming energy at an alarming rate and her heavy dependence on coal make her the second largest greenhouse gas emitter.And will probably surpass America by end of the year to become the world worst polluter.
So a national strategy needs to be implemented fast in the midst of all this,11th Five Year Plan(2006-2010), the chinese governement set up ambitous targets cutting energy consumption per umit of GDP by 20% by 2010,reducing pollutant discharges hy 10% decreasing water consumption per unit of industrial output by 30% and raising the forestry coverage rate to 20% of total land area.
This will not be easy to accomplish as the mainland needs to tackle balancing environmental issues with economic development , but in the medium and long term important to the survival of china and our fragile planet, the western world being longer in the industrial settings and manage to achieve certain degree of legalism and institutions monitoring of gashouse emission should not expect China with her huge populace and other host of problems to do the same thing overnight which western world took decades.
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