Environmental sustainability(环境可持续性) is one of the greatest challenges facing our planet. As humanity asks itself what it must do to make a change, we know China can lead the world to a greener future. Dependence on fossil (化石) fuels must decrease, driving toward a low-carbon future and the development of an energy source that can reliably serve modern society: nuclear power.
A man I greatly admire, the globally respected financier and environmentalist, Jeremy Grantham, has explained that a world that fails toaddressthe challenges of sustainability is putting its own future in danger.
Mike Tynan, leader of the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in the UK, is a man whose entire life has been devoted to delivering safe nuclear power. His father was one of the workers who watched the first nuclear power in the world enter the grid(输电网) - part of a generation that worked hard to make the technological advances that helped to build modem society through nuclear energy. Now his son is helping to build the next generation of nuclear technologies
Our leading industry experts at the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, who have seen the competition in nuclear technology develop over the decades, know that it is important to join with China's plan to share the best technology with nations all over the world.
I, too, am personally devoted to this mission, for I have seen the courage of our Chinese students, academics and colleagues, and know just what happens when Chinese dynamism (推动力) is linked to the particular experience of quality manufacturing and creativity for which the UK is rightly known. I would appeal to people to see how deeply serious we are, and this is the right time to turn challenge into opportunity. I hope it will fire the starting gun of a joint Olympic race — perhaps a long-distance one — to a greener, better world.
