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PKU Issues "Declaration on Building
Sustainable
PKU NEWS 2009--06—02
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=243994292
Peking University, Beijing, June 2, 2009: Student representatives of Peking
University published a "Building a Sustainable Developing Campus" declaration on
May 31st. It is read as below:
Since the 17th National Congress of the CPC, the implement of the scientific concept
of development and the construction of ecological civilization has become the
mission of the times to create a new situation of socialism and to achieve a
comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development. As young people of the
next generation, the builders and successors of socialism with Chinese
characteristics, we are duty-bound. Here, we make the following declaration to
college students all over the nation:
1. We are fully aware that the continued deterioration of the global environment has
seriously affected the development of human society. Since the industrial revolution,
the world has been in the enjoyment of human civilization, while the contradictions
between energy use, urban development and environmental protection became
more acute. In past three decades of China's reform and opening up, progress in
economic and social development achievements have attracted worldwide attention,
but also to pay the huge cost of excessive resource consumption and environmental
degradation.
2. We are aware of the fact that college students are promising and responsible
youth. Young college students have high scientific and cultural qualities, active
thinking, open field of vision, strong sense of responsibility. We are the future of the
country and the hope of the nation, and thus have the responsibility to promote the
environmental scientific research, to impel social services of environmental
education, to lead the culture of environmental protection in the whole society and
should become a major force of building ecological civilization.
3. We suggest that students should actively carry out academic research, offer
advice and suggestions for national development. We should take full advantage of
our professional advantages, enhance the research and application of technologies
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