Wu, Guoyou. "A Restricted View From Cleaner Production on China's Ecological Civilization." in Ecological Civilzation and Marxism. Ed. Huibin Li, Xiaoyuan Xue, Zhihe Wang. China: Central Compilation & Translation Press, 2007. 95-101.

Abstract

(translated from Chinese) The 20th century, along with industrial civilization's practice of vigorous development, the conflict between man and nature also gradually increased -with the control and conquest of nature as its goal, by means of scientific advances, with the naïve desire for economic growth as the basic modern industrial activity-causing humankind's power of conquest over nature to continuously change to a certain extend to power for the destruction of mankind at the same time mankind attempts to conquer nature, unknowingly we've become the conquered. Facing worldwide ecological environment and social development, and human development's sharp contrast, we have become consciously aware of our need to return to a harmonious development with nature, and began to think and to explore new solutions to the problem. Consequently, clean production results from such thought and exploration.