Rooted in tradition, China's green roads to a low-carbon future

<p style="text-align: left;">Chinese President Xi Jinping said the &quot;well-measured use of natural resources is the key to ecological conservation,&quot; during the opening ceremony of the International Horticultural Exhibition in 2019.</p><p>The sentence was a quote from &quot;Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance,&quot; a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography by Sima Guang (1019-1086) of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127).<br/></p><p>The quotation shows China&#39;s ancient wisdom regarding the balance between nature and humans. The idea of the well-measured use of natural resources has taken on new meaning in China today. <br/></p><p><br/></p>