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Quotes from Global Sustainable Leaders Forum

By Zhang Jiawei (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-11-25 15:28

"The core of a company's green wealth is to make a balance between pursuing fortune and protecting the environment." -- Long Yongtu, former secretary-general of the Boao Forum for Asia.

"Take into consideration your carbon emissions in every aspect of your life." "I need to plant 1,800 trees every year to neutralize my carbon emissions." -- Victor Yuan, Chairman of Horizon Research Consultancy Group.

"China should subsidize companies which have zero carbon emissions." -- Wen Tiejun, Dean of Renmin University's School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.

"Agricultural pollution accounts for 50 percent of China's environmental pollution." -- Shi Yan, Wen Tiejun's student and founder of Dondon Farm in Beijing's northwest.

"Only women can save China, because men have done everything they can." -- Ye Mei from McKinsey.

"China has no music. Chinese musicians can not devote themselves to the industry because of piracy." -- Li Dai, chairwoman of Zebra Media.

"We all live in a second-hand world. We get second-hand information which is fragmentary." -- Xu Zhiyuan, a columnist and co-founder of the bookstore One Way Street Library.