Premier Wen Jiabao met international members and participants of the 4th AGM of CCICED Phase III on November 20 in Beijing.

Premier Wen said, the Chinese Government is working out the 11th Five-Year Plan on National Economic and Social Development, which presents the objectives not only doubling GDP in 2010 on the base of 2000, but also reducing the energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20% on the base of 2000 and raising resource efficiency and curbing the trend of ecological degradation. These are important measures for achieving sustainable development.

Premier Wen pointed out that the next 5 years is the key period for economic development of China. It is also the period when various contradictions including the problems such as resources and environment are more pre-eminent. We shall consider the carrying capacity of resources and the environment when making overall plan, vigorously facilitate strategic economic restructuring and transform economic growth mode. We should take resource saving and conservation as one of the basic State policies, develop circular economy, protect ecological environment and accelerate the building of a resource-saving and environment-friendly society so as to promote the harmony among economic development, population, resources and the environment.

Finally, Premier Wen stressed that resources conservation, the protection of environment and achieving sustainable development require long-term and unremitting efforts of the Chinese Government and people as well as learning state-of-art technology and advanced experience from developed countries. He hoped that the international experts actively put forward comments and suggestions to contribute to sustainable development of China.

Mr. Greenhill, the International Executive Vice Chair of CCICED and President of Canadian International Development Agency, briefed to Premier Wen the main outcomes of the discussion of 2005 AGM and Policy Recommendations to the Chinese Government on behalf of CCICED.