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Archives of Peking University News - PKU English - 北京大学

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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Lord Mayor <strong>of</strong> Melbourne <strong>of</strong> Australia John So delivered a speech<br />

In the forum, the main leaders and guests gave excellent speeches about the theme<br />

<strong>of</strong> the forum and the achievements gained by the Environmental Education Base for<br />

Chinese <strong>University</strong> Students in the past years. Cities have always been the focus <strong>of</strong><br />

environmental problems, which is becoming more important for the amount <strong>of</strong> the<br />

world urban population had exceeded the amount <strong>of</strong> rural population in 2007. So the<br />

theme <strong>of</strong> this forum was ―Livable City, Green Olympics—Youth in Action‖, which was<br />

in order to start top discussions on the building <strong>of</strong> livable cities and set up interactive<br />

platform for universities and the society in the concepts <strong>of</strong> ecological civilization<br />

construction and green Olympics by international exchanges, and through these<br />

activities they wanted to let the young students gain valuable experiences from the<br />

practices <strong>of</strong> mayors at home and abroad, promote the communication and<br />

cooperation between the domestic and overseas universities‘ students and let the<br />

whole society know about the effects made by the young students in the<br />

environmental protection.<br />

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