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    Balancing Twin Goals

    May 28, 2020 4 minutes
    By Liu Minquan
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    The author is a professor with the School of Economics and the Center for Human and Economic Development Studies, Peking University

    Like many other countries, China suffered serious environment degradation in the early stages of its industrialization when its rapid economic growth came at a huge cost to its natural resources and the environment. However, in the past two to three decades, there has been a significant reversal of that trend, thanks to a wide range of government policies and people’s growing awareness of the need to protect the environment they work and live in.

    A historical problem

    While investigating the causes of environmental pollutions and ecosystem degradations in China, most analysts have

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