Price paid while development achieved
Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has already paid a high price in its resources and environment despite the fact that a miraculous economic progress has been achieved. The country's sustainable development has-been in-creasingly thwarted by its accelerating resources exhaustion,environment pollution and biological deterioration. Without fundamental changes to its past resource-extensive economic growth model, it would be difficult for the fast-growing econ-omy to sustain its robust economic growth.