Great Cause Benefiting Future Generations ����This article by Our Commentator runs in part as follows: The National Program for Ecological Environmental Construction, after having been discussed and adopted by an executive meeting of the State Council, is now officially put into effect. ����Ecological environmental construction is a great cause benefiting future generations and an infrastructure construction project affecting the subsistence and long-term development of the Chinese nation, it must, therefore, be carried out constantly and unremittingly. ����Considering that China's ecological environmental construction is an extremely arduous task, we must combine protracted, long-ranging hard work with the tackling of phased difficult task, and comprehensive advancement with breakthroughs in key points. ����Ecological environmental construction is a public welfare service, which requires that we carry out the task by pooling the efforts of the central and local governments, the collectives and individuals and follow the multi-channel, multi-level and multi-directional fund-raising road. ����We believe that as long as we make up our minds, give play to the superiority of the socialist system, promote the spirit of hard struggle and do hard and solid work, we are sure to achieve our magnificent goal of creating a more beautiful landscape on the vast territory of China. Through the unremitting efforts of one generation after another. ���� Opinion 1999-01-07 Page1 Full Story in Chinese