Quotes by Chai Jing

Are you afraid that youre hurting your national auto industry? - Environmental protection isnt a burden. Its innovation. Protecting a backward industry is no way to promote innovation. The governments role is to set standards and then ensure fair competition in the market. You win the market through fair competition.

Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air quality in Beijing was so poor. One morning, I saw my daughter banging on the window... The day will come when she asks me, Why do you keep me here? What is going to hurt me when I go outside?

Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.