If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

If an accident happens in a plant, the aftermath will be unimaginable.

Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

The main problems are, firstly, the inappropriate location of the plants; secondly, their failure to follow environmental guidelines; and thirdly, that more than 100 of these plants pose an environmental risk.

I hope monitoring cross-border rivers is just a beginning of the two countries' co-operation on environmental protection. China and Russia need to jointly develop comprehensive environmental protection.

The issue of pollution has become a blasting fuse for social instability.

The agreement marks a substantive step in environmental-protection co-operation between China and Russia.

The most urgent task is to check water pollution to ensure the safety of drinking water, and we must win that battle.

The worst environmental pollution in the country is coming, highlighted by frequent occurrence of major pollution incidents.