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Global Ecological Crisis

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China is the world’s largest developing country, the biggest emitter of carbon, and a victim of the ecological crisis. With previous industrial revolutions, China missed out on the first two and it became something of a backward country. However, it managed to catch up in the third industrial revolution and made remarkable achievements. The fourth industrial revolution presents China with a huge strategic opportunity: it needs to become a front-runner and leader in this industrial revolution.

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    Toynbee (2010).

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    The author, Wang Yi, and Niu Wenyuan wrote Ecological deficit: the biggest crisis in the next period of the Chinese nationality survival–analysis of China Ecological Environmental Conditions for the early warning team of the Ecological Environment Research Center of Chinese Academy of Science, August 1989 and it appeared in the Chinese science newspaper: National Conditions and Decision-Making, page 186, Beijing, Beijing Press, 1990.

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    Dickens (2003).

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    Toynbee (2010).

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    UNDP (2010).

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    World Bank (2001).

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    International Energy Agency, World energy outlook 2009, 2011, pp 64.

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    United Nations Development Programme (2007/2008a).

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    Including ISSC 2005; the European Union 2007b; den Elzenand Meinshausen 2005; Schellnhuber 2006; Government of France 2006.

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    United Nations Development Programme (2007/2008b).

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    United Nations Development Programme (2007/2008c).

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    UNEP (2011).

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    24From 2010 to 2030, the average annual growth rates will be as follows: agricultural productivity 2 %, industrial productivity 2 %, and manufacturing productivity 3 %. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicator 2011. Center for China National Studies, Tsinghua University, Hu Angang, Yan Yilong, Wei Xing: 2030 China: Towards a Common Prosperity, p 31, Beijing, China Renmin University Press, 2011.

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Hu, A. (2014). Global Ecological Crisis. In: China: Innovative Green Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54962-5_3

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