There is no end to practice or innovation. We must continue to emancipate our minds, seek truth from facts, keep up with the times, make bold changes and innovations, stay away from rigidity or stagnation, fear no risks, and never be confused by any interference.

　　实践永无止境，创新永无止境。我们必需坚持解放思想、实事求是、与时俱进，勇于变革、勇于创新，永不僵化、永不停滞，不为任何风险所惧，不被任何干扰所惑。

　　While recognizing our achievements, we must be well aware that they still fall short of our expectations and that there are still quite a few difficulties and problems on our way forward. The outstanding ones include the following: Our economic growth is realized at an excessively high cost of resources and the environment. More efforts are needed to promote ideological and ethical progress. Extravagance, waste, corruption and other undesirable behavior are still serious-problems with them.

　　在看到成绩的同时，也要清醒地认识到，我们的工作与我们的期待还有不小差距，前进中还面临不少困难和问题，突出的是：经济增长的资源环境代价过大；思想道德建设有待加强；奢侈浪费、消极腐现象仍然比较严重。

　　All these show that through the uemitting efforts that environmentalists have made, China has

　　scored achievements in environment issues, and experienced far-reaching changes. However, the stern situation in our country’s environment has not changed.

　　这些情况表明，经过环保组织以及环保人士的不懈努力，我国环境问题取得了举世瞩目的改善，发生了意义深远的重大变化。但我国严峻的环境形势没有变。

　　We must adopt an enlightened approach to development that results in expanded production, a better life and sound ecological and environmental conditions, build a resource-conserving and environment-friendly society, and harmonize economic growth with the population, resources and the environment, so that our economy and society will develop in a sustainable way.