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The article reports on the implementation of policies for industrial energy conservation and emission reduction and its impact on industrial sectors, by the eleventh Five-year Program period of China (2006-2010), the National Development and Reform Commission PRC (NDRC). The impacts include small scale firms have been shut down, product prices increased, and operating performance for large firms have recovered and more investment have been created. The overall impacts are positive.

The article reports on the development of China and the initiatives of various cities which lead to a broader endorsement of sustainability principles. It highlights the response to sustainability of Rizhao, a coastal city of almost three million on the Shandong Peninsula, and its achievement which result from a government policy that encourages the use of solar energy, local solar panel industries and the political will of city officials to adopt the initiative. It examines the rapid growth of China in terms of cities, pollution control and biodiversity conservation.