China's clean energy growth is impressive

Former UN official hails the nation's green revolution and innovation

Erik Solheim, former executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, has been closely following the two sessions in Beijing remotely from his home in Norway.

Solheim, who also served as UN under-secretary-general, has visited China frequently in the past decades, focusing primarily on China's sustainable and green development as well as the Belt and Road Initiative to build connectivity.

He said two keywords stand out for him from the two sessions, referring to the annual meetings of China's National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. "One is 'stability' in a world of enormous uncertainty," he told China Daily. China is a stable power, with a long-term vision that underpins peace and sensible action for human development and the environment, he said.