China's Ecological Environment in the Past Decade

Xi Jinping: The Governance of China 

I've been in China for nine years. You know, the first time when I came to China, winter for me was like, I call it the brown Beijing, the brown Beijing. I'm a very precise person by the way.

Now I call it the blue Beijing, the B city. So from the BB city to the BB city, the rate of change is very exponential. I think the only country that has that number of electric cars is only China. Electric cars now are everywhere in China. This is in Beijing, imagine in small cities. Not because it's easy to buy or it's cheaper. Even people, they are educated. They know that now it's better to drive electric cars.

Of course they are decreasing the amount of carbon, the emission of carbon globally. But it will be there because they are doing. And for example, electricity. You can see now they're trying. They use solar panels during Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. They put these thousands of photovoltaic panels to generate electricity. This is just a simple example. A few months ago, I went to Gansu province. I saw big places, big stations for solar energy. These renewable stations were used to generate electricity, for instance. There are really doing an incredible job.

I think people who are in charge of these environment departments have done tremendous work. And it's really working, really. We educate our coming generation that guys be careful, this is what's going to happen. The rise of temperature, the rise of sea level is everywhere. This is exponential problem. It's going to happen in ten years because it shrinks down, it squeezes.

It's not late. And that's what China is doing. By introducing these environmental sciences to high schools and middle schools, they started teaching ecology or environment. So you can see students in China, this generation. They are aware of what they do. It's like they are mature already because of the gigantic flux of information through online and everything.

So that's why they know what's happening. They do many volunteer projects. For example, they go to mountains and the great wall to collect and clean up plastic bottles. They want to be part of the change. And also, I think even universities. Professors open new fields and allow their students to do research in green engineering green architecture or electrical engineering, mechanical engineering.

I think China has the courage to step ahead and say, guys, I can do it.Now you can see even when China build railways in construction fields everywhere in Africa and South America, they use it in a green way. People didn’t tell me that. I've seen by my own eyes. They build it in a greenish way, in an environmental method.

The methods they use for railways are electric, for instance.Very simple to understand. Most of the cars and factories they build are electric. Now they're trying to get rid of the space garbage. Because, you know, in the space there are thousands of satellites, at least 6000 dead satellites orbiting the earth. Chinese donated hundreds of millions of trees in Africa. I didn’t read it on the news.I've seen by my own eyes.

So I think what China is doing now is opening and collaborating with everybody. China is like a big brother to look after everybody. That's why I think in terms of international cooperation, Chinese are doing an incredible job, really. I think this pandemic has made us get closer to each other, and look after each other more. People are getting together so governments will get together automatically, of course. And that's my idea toward the global governance in general. 

China donated millions of masks to everybody in the world, not only to Africa. It's like a head and a tail, you know. We suffered a lot, of course, but at the same time we learned a lot and we got closer to each other.

Author ：Kaddour Chelabi, from Algerian, holds a doctor's degree in quantum cosmology and theoretical physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also the president of MIT High School, the co-founder of Sumen Education, the international consultant of Taihe Think Tank Beijing Research Institute, and the co-founder and academic director of Beijing Abuzurium International Education Group. In 2016 and 2019, Kaddour Chelabi served as the representative of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) twice, attending the Nobel Laureate Conference in Physics held in Lindau, and in 2014, he served as the representative of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the Global Young Scientists Summit of Nobel Laureates held in Singapore. In this program, as an environmental protection activist, Dr. Kadu will lead us to explore the story of harmony between man and nature from his professional perspective.