The world is fascinated by China's economic miracle, but it is much less interested in the costs associated with the country's 8-9% annual growth rate in the past 25 years. For instance, the energy consumption of every unit of Chinese industrial output is close to three times the global average.
当世界惊异于中国的经济奇迹时，却对其在过去25年来为实现8-9%的经济年增长率所付出的代价漠不关心。例如，中国每单位工业产出的能源消耗比全球平均水平高出近三倍。在一些地方，环境已经遭到了近乎不可逆的破坏。