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Leading China＇s Sustainable Development by Meeting Global Challenges and Achieving Green Innovation
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Chun-Li |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Dramatic changes have taken place in global environment and sustainable development patterns since 1992, when the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The global landscape of the environment and development has been altered by an expanding world economy, the rise of China and other emerging economies, and a smoothly developing green economy. Since 1996, when sustainable development was made a national strategy in China, amazing achievements have been accomplished in such aspects as population control, energy efficiency, emissions reduction and ecological conservation. In today’s world, global political and economic patterns are subject to great changes and adjustments, with profound transformations in the economic growth mode, social governance structure and global security. Global sustainable development is threatened by the increasingly sharp contradiction between the huge demands of rapid socioeconomic development on the one hand and the limited carrying capacity of the Earth, scarcity of energy and resources, and ecological and environmental constraints on the other. This situation is aggravated by the interaction and overlap of many different problems. At the same time, China is facing multiple complicated and formidable challenges, with its growing dependency on imported resources and energy, and its economic growth mode that continues to feature high input, high consumption, high pollution, low output and low efficiency. Resource and environment problems are major constraints on achieving China’s goal of becoming a xiaokang (moderate prosperity) society. These complex and severe problems, which challenge China’s socioeconomic development and, in particular, its S&T advancement, should be dealt with by comprehensively employing natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and various technological means. |
| Starting Page | 176 |
| Ending Page | 182 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 26 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://english.cas.cn/bcas/2012_3/201411/P020141121531785378526.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Notice |
