In today's China and abroad, the core of everyone's concerns is the environmental overall effect of economic growth and its social implications. The path of sustainable development has decided that the Chinese government must focuse its attention on the nature and quality of the projected growth while fostering and foreseeing a high growth rate. Besides scarcity of resources, ill-management of the natural resources is also a big problem in China, especially in the year of 2006, which has been described by Pan Yue, deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Administration as "the grimmest for China's environmental situation, with 161 serious environmental accidents and failure to meet the target of reducing pollution emission by 2%".
Speaker:
Mr. Benoit Vermander who holds a M.Phil. in political science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in the same discipline from Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris is the academic director of the Ricci Institute, and also the chief editor of eRenlai magazine (www.erenlai.com). He has authored several books on today's China culture and society and has given numerous talks and lectures at Beijing University, University of Washington, University of San Francisco, Academia Sinica, Taiwan's National Library, French Chambers of Commerce in Shanghai and Beijing, among other locations.