【正确答案】The Chinese government attaches great importance to environmental protection. It believes that environmental protection has a bearing on the overall situation of China's modernization drive and its long-term development and that it is an undertaking which will not only benefit the Chinese people of today but also bring benefit to their children and grandchildren. The Chinese government has established environmental protection as a basic national policy. While promoting economic growth, it has adopted a series of measures to strengthen environmental protection. Especially in recent years, the Chinese government, adhering to the policy of putting preventive measures first, controlling environmental pollution in a comprehensive way, pushing forward overall environmental protection and making breakthroughs at key points, has made great efforts to solve those conspicuous environmental problems that threaten people's health. It has persisted in institutional innovation, relied on technological advances, strengthened the rule of law in environmental protection and brought into full play the initiative of various sectors of the society. Thanks to these efforts, the trend toward aggravated environmental pollution and ecological destruction has slowed down, pollution control in some river basins has achieved some initial success, the environmental quality of some cities and regions has improved to some extent, and the people' s awareness of the importance of environmental protection has increased further.