STORY: China's ecological civilization remarkable, worth learning: U.S. scholars
SHOOTING DATE: Dec. 20, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 22, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:11
LOCATION: PU'ER, China
CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ECOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the forum
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): PHILIP CLAYTON, President of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ANDREW SCHWARTZ, Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies of the United States
4. Video of Jingmai Mountain

STORYLINE:

Experts and scholars from the United States have marveled at China's progress in achieving ecological civilization during the just-concluded 7th Pu'er Green Development Forum in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

They called for more cooperation and exchanges between China and the Western countries in green development.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): PHILIP CLAYTON, President of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China
"I've been visiting China for 23 years, but this is the first time that I have ever been to Yunnan Province. And I am remarkable to see the mountains and the forests are the most rich and beautiful I have seen in China. The problem for green development is we lack positive examples, but what I have seen here on Jingmai Mountain is a thousand-year example of integration, the integration of nature and culture into an ecosystem, which is the product of both. This is a place that brings economic prosperity to the people while they protect nature, and while they develop their own traditional culture. As the two largest economies in the world, China and the United States simply must cooperate. Ecological cooperation, most important is that Americans learn the Chinese notion of ecological civilization."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ANDREW SCHWARTZ, Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies of the United States
"China has a famous mountain world heritage site, so it's very well known for its nature. But it's also a very rural area with growing development and I think it serves as the perfect opportunity to show the rest of the world what it looks like to grow in harmony with nature that improves both the well-being of human lives, but also the rest of the planet. And I think that Chinese-style modernization has a lot to teach the West, and there are also things in the West that we can offer and contribute to trying to bridge the gap between Western modernization and Chinese modernization to create a new path to ecological civilization."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Pu'er, China.
(XHTV)