Environmentalist

With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.

Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.

If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.

Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here.

Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.

At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.