China counts £130bn cost of economic growth

China’s economic growth is inflicting more than a trillion yuan’s worth of damage on its environment each year, according to a government report that increases pressure on planners to slow the breakneck speed of development.

Read the full story on the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/28/china-130-bn-economic-growth

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