In an uncharacteristically honest report, China, the world’s second-leading source of greenhouse gas emmissions, has acknowledged it is failing in its efforts to make environmental progress.

“Compared with social and economic modernisation, China’s ecological modernisation lags far behind,” said the research group’s director, He Chuanqi.
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