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The Green Leap Forward on the Web!

Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008

The Green Leap Forward is just over six months old. First formerly introduced to the China blogosphere by ResponsibleChina, GLF was also recently featured as an editor’s pick by the China Economic Review. In addition, GLF has today made it to both the China and Green lists under Alltop, the brainchild of Guy Kawasaki.
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What is the Green Leap Forward?

The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1960 which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform mainland China from a primarily agrarian economy dominated by peasant farmers into a modern, industrialized communist society. It is now widely seen, both within and outside of China, as an major economic (and environmental) disaster.
By contrast, the Green Leap Forward, is an emerging movement to harness and combine the powerful forces of smart policy, sustainable finance and green technologies to steer China's red-hot economy onto a more ecologically and socially sustainable path. Unlike its predecessor, the Green Leap Forward is as much a bottom-up revolution as it is a top-down one and in this age of increasing global interconnectedness, is a movement that will have an impact beyond its borders.
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