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PAGE  PAGE 4 Mr. Secretary-General Annan, Dr. Toepfer, Mr. Reilly, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a tremendous honor to be here tonight to accept this year’s UNEP Sasakawa Environment Prize from his Excellency Secretary-General Annan. I deem the awarding of this prestigious prize as recognition and affirmation by the United Nations and the international community of China’s efforts and achievements in environmental protection and sustainable development. The honor is not just for me. It goes to my country and to all my colleagues who, by working tirelessly at their own positions, have contributed to the protection of the environment in China. I have worked in environmental protection for two decades. This period has witnessed vigorous advancement of the international environmental cause as well as remarkable development of the Chinese economy. Rapid economic growth has brought with it grave challenges to the environment. Problems that cropped up and were dealt with step by step in nearly a hundred years in developed countries befell China within twenty yearsall of them enormously complex ones. The Chinese government, making environmental protection one of its basic national policies and sticking to the strategy of sustainable development, has carried out large-scale pollution control and treatment and ecological restoration efforts. It has succeeded in curbing, by and large, the trend of environmental deterioration and in improving and quality of the environment to some extent in a number of cities and regions while sustaining rapid economic growth. Fortunate enough to be living in such great times, I feel extremely proud and honored to have devoted the best of my years to the worthy cause of environmental protection. Although remarkable progress has been achieved in protecting the environment and seeking sustainable development, China is still faced with serious problems of environmental pollution and worsening ecological deterioration. One particular