In his address at the 19th Party Congress last year, President Xi Jinping made a push for environmentally sustainable development as part of a slate of many new policy initiatives for China.
"Human beings must respect nature and observe the laws of nature… Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us," he said in his call for accelerated efforts to promote green development.
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