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Deeper Reforms, Better Opportunities: China‘s Green Transition

CGTN

28:20

Over the past decade, China has experienced an average economic growth of 6.6 percent per year, with a 3 percent annual increase in energy consumption. It’s reduced carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by more than 34 percent, and its energy consumption per unit of GDP by over 26 percent, making it one of the fastest countries in the world to reduce energy intensity. How has China achieved the balance of environmental protection and economic growth? What has China done in green technologies to fight climate change?

Guests in this edition of Dialogue are Lauri Myllyvirta, co-founder and lead analyst of the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air; Wu Changhua, China director at the Office of Jeremy Rifkin; Wang Yongzhong, senior fellow at the Institute of World Economics and Politics from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Anatole Boute, professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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