--Tibet has adhered to the comprehensive decision-making about environment and development, boosting sustainable development. Tibet Autonomous Region has established a civilized development path characterized with developing production, enriched life and benign ecological conditions, insisting on viewing the endurance capability of ecological environment as the precondition and basic criteria of economic development and resource exploitation. Aiming at benign ecological conditions and the building of an ecological Tibet as its important goal of development, Tibet has been established in its ecological and resource advantages, actively developing characteristic advantageous industries, forbidding and restraining the development of heavy pollution industries, and strengthening the environmental protection in resource exploitation. By doing so, it has boosted the permanent utilization of hydropower, tourism, mineral and biological resources and the sustainable development of industries.

--Tibet has insisted on environmental protection for the sake of the people, making great efforts to improve the people's life. In its economic construction, Tibet has always stuck to the principle of prudent development of heavy industry, explicitly prohibiting such heavy pollution and high energy consumption industries as paper- making, iron and steel and chemical industry, establishing strict environmental entrance conditions, and preventing any projects of heavy environmental pollution and ecological destruction from entering Tibet. It has conducted control work on key industrial pollution sources to make them meet the standard of waste emission, closing down a group of enterprises with heavy pollution, invested more than one billion yuan to strengthen the construction of urban environmental infrastructure such as sewage disposal plants and dumps and conduct the control of key pollution source. By doing so, Tibet has made its major pollution enterprises meet the standards of contamination emission.

--Tibet has strengthened environmental administration and guaranteed environmental security. In strengthening the environmental protection of development and construction, Tibet has strictly carried out all regulations in all links such as decision-making, planning, environmental influence appraisement, supervision and inspection, and the examination and test and acceptance of completion of projects, making sure to decrease the influence of development construction over environment to the lowest degree. We refuse to accept any projects what may affect ecological conditions no matter how profitable it may be. The people's government of Tibet Autonomous Region has made a decision to totally forbid any exploitation of gold dust and iron dust resources, and closed down a group of mines that have strong influences over ecological environments. In the world-attracting Qinghai-Tibet Railway Line construction project, for example, 1.54 billion yuan environmental protection funds have been invested, which have effectively protected the ecological environments and natural landscapes along the railway line.

Both the country and the autonomous region have made great efforts to protect the ecological environments of Tibet, and have achieved remarkable effects. Departments of environmental protection have been built at the regional level, and in 7 districts (cities) and 73 counties throughout the region. In order to better protect the ecological environment of Tibet, the Tibet Autonomous Region is taking vigorous steps to earnestly implement the decision and deployment of the Central Government about to "Construct a Firm National Ecological Security Barrier in the Tibetan Plateau, Build an Ecological Tibet, and Make Sure Benign Ecological Environments". Doubtlessly, the Tibetan people will create more harmonious ecological environment, and enjoy a happier and better life in the future development.

I have worked at the environmental protection circle of Tibet for nearly 30 years. In these three decades, I have personally experienced the radical changes of Tibet, and deeply felt that the ecological environment has been effectively protected and improved while the Tibetan people's living standards are constantly improved, so Tibet has made a win-win achievement of economic development and ecological and environmental improvement.