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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 />

President Assistant <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong> Li Yansong addressing<br />

After the speeches, the main guests gave the flags to the members <strong>of</strong> the Summer<br />

Environmental Education Team organized by Environmental Education Base for<br />

Chinese <strong>University</strong> Students. Then the students from universities at home and<br />

abroad read out the proposal <strong>of</strong> ―Carry out the Concept <strong>of</strong> Green Olympics, Build a<br />

Beautiful Home Planet‖ to call the college students to join in the environmental<br />

protection actively and give a green future to the earth. The principal <strong>of</strong> the base<br />

gave green bags to the student representatives as gifts which were designed by the<br />

winners in the "Green Bag Creative Design Competition" held by the base to<br />

response the national ban on free plastic shopping bags came into effect on June<br />

1.In the last <strong>of</strong> the main forum, Mr. John So and Pr<strong>of</strong>. Thomas Kvan from Melbourne<br />

<strong>of</strong> Australia gave speeches entitled ―Ecological Livable City‖ and ―City Ecological<br />

Environment and Planning‖ separately. In the afternoon, five forums on hot<br />

environmental problems for the college students and people from the various circles<br />

<strong>of</strong> society to communicate were held and had good effects.<br />

Since 2006, the International Students‘ Environment Forum has been held for three<br />

times. It invited government <strong>of</strong>ficials, business representatives, scholars and<br />

outstanding college student representatives from about 20 countries to have top<br />

explorations in the hot environmental problems, such as desertification and global<br />

warming.<br />

Edited By : Liu Xiaohua<br />

Translated By : Su Juan<br />

Source : <strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong> (Chinese)<br />

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