Sustainable development to be future goal of China, according to experts
China has lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty in the past decades and the Chinese people have enjoyed a better standard of living, which is the biggest achievement since the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, said Yongjing Zhang, associate professor of economics in the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. China has also made great achievements in pollution control, forest coverage, desertification control, and garbage and sewage treatment, Zhang said in a recent interview with Xinhua before the 70th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. “People in Beijing and Shanghai are seeing more days of blue sky, like this in Ottawa today,” Zhang said. Zhang added China is still on the direction of Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China’s reform and opening up since the late 1970s. “China wants its people to improve their lives.” According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, In 2018, 121 of the 338 citi...