From the Shanghai Daily...last October; I suppose any article you haven't read is a new article: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200710/20071016/article_334632.htm
The Daily quotes Hu Jintao: "We must give prominence to building a resource-conserving, environment-friendly society in our strategy for industrialization and modernization and get every organization and family to act accordingly."
Pretty words, but given how wimpy government organizations like SEPA are, I'll be interested to see what comes of it.
I'm betting it's rhetoric to get folks to get busy cleaning the place up before all the foreigners show up for the 2008 Olympics. China will be trying to put on its prettiest, cleanest face.
As for how I would do things differently, I think I'd need a time machine before I could do anything, because the environmental mess on China's hands has taken decades to get to this point, and it will likely take even longer to clean up.
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Hu also said that "Awareness of conservation will be firmly established in the whole of society."
Rhetoric or not, at least the words "conservation", "recycle", and "renewable energy" are being spoken, especially by the president. Let's hope the pretty face will become a daily - firm - feature.
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