PRC warned over costs of development

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China's top environmental official has urged a complete rethink of economic policies, warning that growth cannot go on as now without severe damage to natural resources, state media said yesterday.

The wake-up call from Xie Zhenhua, the head of the State Environmental Protection Administration, is based on the expectation that China's economy almost inevitably will quadruple by 2020, the China Daily reported.

"The country's resources and the environment will not last if the conventional development model doesn't change," he said, according to the newspaper.

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