CRI听力:Merkel Tells Tsinghua Students Why Sustainable Development Matters

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has wrapped up her visit in China with a wide range of agreements signed between the two countries.

As part of her stay in Beijing today, the Chancellor has taken her chance to give a speech on sustainable development.

"For China, the issue of sustainable growth will become more important, because problems like air quality and environmental issues will play a bigger role in the future. People who enjoy enough food and a better place to live will then take an interest in these qualitative aspects."

About 6 hundred teachers and students attended the speech at Tsinghua University.

Zhao Xueshuang is one of them.

"In the past, we students usually went to Germany to study machinofacture or something within the auto production industry. But according to what she said today, the technological development will not be the only thing we should go for in the future, we need to build up on the institutional level."

For more on the German Chancellor's visit, CRI's Cao Yuwei spoke earlier with Xing Hua, a researcher from the China Institute of International Studies.