While insensitive development could destroy China's natural environment,
well-managed eco-tourism could provide huge benefits for China's wildlife.
The issues that face China today, increasing pressure on resources and living space and quality of environment,
are those that face us all.
If there is any country in the world equipped to solve environmental problems on a vast scale,
it has to be China,
with its tremendous human resources and powerful political control.
The path it chooses will affect not just its own people and its natural environment,
but the rest of the world, too.