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CNN's Marsha Walton looks at energy conservation efforts in China
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August 5, 1999
Web posted at: 10:22 a.m. EDT (1422 GMT)

BEIJING (CNN) -- Over the past decade, the Chinese people have made extraordinary economic strides -- tens of millions of people have escaped tremendous poverty.

But that growth has come at a price -- air and water pollution that is killing and sickening people as well as cutting productivity.

The Chinese government is in a precarious position: it can't stop the newfound progress but realizes that as energy consumption skyrockets, things will only get worse.

Correspondent Marsha Walton reports on some efforts by non-governmental organizations to use technology to ease China's environmental growing pains.

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