Xinhua Gallery: Green Economy and Sustainable Development

"Xinhua Gallery" at UN headquarters highlights green economy

2011-06-07 - Selected from nearly a million photos in the Xinhua archive for the past decade, 41 were put on exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New York Monday, shedding new light on green economy and its benefits to human beings.

Entitled "Green Economy and Sustainable Development," the "Xinhua Gallery" photo exhibition was jointly launched by the Chinese Permanent Mission to the UN and Xinhua News Agency.

"Green economy has become an important international trend for the future and it's a vital means to achieve sustainable development," Li Baodong, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations, said at the opening of the exhibition.

The photos, shot by Xinhua reporters and photographers around the world, cover a wide range of places that represent green economy and sustainable development.

Among the pictures were one showing a greenhouse in suburban Beijing which can save 30 to 50 percent of energy, and one about Europe's second largest wind farm, the Marachon Wind Farm in Spain, that provides electricity to 600,000 people and cut CO2 emissions by about 420,000 tons a year.

The Chinese government puts great emphasis on sustainable development and green economy, Li said. "By focusing on scientific development and changing the outdated mode of economic growth, we are striving to build a resource-efficient and environment-friendly society." {continued}