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We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
Ma Jun
Environmental
Impossible
Weak
Laws
Remains
Countries
Still
Western
Western Countries
Quite
Litigation
Enforcement
Regulations
Near
Copied
If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
Ma Jun
You
Social Media
Publish
Back
Our
Those
One-Way
Posts
Something
Read
Coming
Traditional
Get
Social
Who
Media
They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
Ma Jun
Problem
Corners
Those
Cost
Morally
More
Because
Rewarding
Cut
Who
Mechanism
Now
Save
Ever since we published the first Apple report, we've had some other brands turning more proactive.
Ma Jun
First
Other
Some
More
Had
Since
Brands
Report
Proactive
Turning
Ever
Published
Apple
Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here.
Ma Jun
Environmental
Problems
Resolved
Other
Other Countries
Way
Solved
Per
Environmental Problems
Countries
Court
Heard
Happen
Cent
Cannot
Here
I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
Ma Jun
Government
Made
Every
Rules
Tell
Comply
Firm
Mean
Them
Should
Compete
On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.
Ma Jun
Environmental
Nature
Heavy Metal
April
Jobs
Institute
Steve
Steve Jobs
Metal
Affairs
Questioned
Friends
Green
Heavy
Pollution
Chinese
Public
Sent
CEO
Organizations
Including
Letter
What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
Ma Jun
Law
Protection
Pressure
Aim
Through
Environment
Bureau
Public
Enforce
Help
Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment if you don't consider you have responsibility in your suppliers' pollution?
Ma Jun
You
Commitment
Responsibility
Made
Consider
Suppliers
How
Green
Pollution
Fulfill
Your
Company
Apple
China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.
Ma Jun
Meet
Percentage
Output
Points
Share
Between
Industries
Domestic
Target
Heavy
Pollution
China
Cut
Cuts
Should
Gross
Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.
Ma Jun
Law
Control
Pay
Obeying
Fines
Cost
Failings
Than
Pollution
Happier
Breaking
Mean
Far
Regulatory
Businesses
Below
China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.
Ma Jun
Environmental
Alone
Government
Will
Changes
Citizens
Solved
About
Given
Join
Allow
Environment
New
Concerned
Within
Affected
May
Which
China
Plan
Communities
Mechanisms
Needed
At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
Ma Jun
Government
Day
End Of The Day
Pressure
Local
Local Government
Bow
End
Public
The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
Ma Jun
Water
Drinking
Important
Situation
Difficult
Costly
Clean
Drinking Water
Contaminated
Source
Very
Gets
Quite
Use
Serious
Including
China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
Ma Jun
Energy
Focused
Easy
Restructuring
Economy
Industry
Very
Intensive
Heavy
Which
China
Much
Coal
Carbon
To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
Ma Jun
Long
Local
Put
Deal
Issue
Been
Pollution
Which
China
Sensitive
Agenda
Coal
We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.
Ma Jun
People
World
Pressure
Own
Extra
Meet
Our
Definitely
Entire
Entire World
Put
Environment
Demands
Well
Lot
Meantime
Manufacturing
Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
Ma Jun
Environmental
Class
Rights
Better
Sense
Willing
Take
Most
Middle
Middle Class
Urban
Them
Much
Residents
Streets
I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.
Ma Long
Alone
Me
Happy
Champion
Become
Complete
Only
Glad
Makes
Am
Very
Grand
Grand Slam
Slam
Olympic
Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
Ma Long
Experience
Dubai
Incredible
Arab
Unforgettable
View
Al
Playing
To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
Ma Long
Win
Long
Dream
Table
Tennis
Tennis Player
Since
Been
Gold
Gold Medal
Games
Medal
Ever
Player
Started
Olympic
Career
Olympic Games
It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
Ma Long
Great
Me
Teammates
Follow
Federer
Footsteps
Like
Tiger
Tiger Woods
Greats
Privilege
Roger
Woods
No matter who I meet, I won't have any pressure.
Ma Long
Matter
Pressure
Meet
Any
Who
I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
Ma Long
Happy
Dream
True
Come
Am
Very
Olympic
Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need.
Ma Yansong
Happiness
Nature
Man
World
Prosperity
Men
Beauty
Eastern
Find
Match
Built
Very
Close
Even
Actually
Need
The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness.
Ma Yansong
Spiritual
Humanity
Lie
Values
Big
Sense
Difficulty
Our
Those
Cities
Per
Rather
Lead
Concealed
Emptiness
Within
Buildings
Does
Big Cities
Loss
Which
Skyscrapers
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