I am most impressed by China's recognition of the need to deal with climate change and environmental improvement.

Examples of this include its cooperation in signing an environmental agreement with the United States as well as its determined efforts to embrace green technology and leadership in sustainable energy development.

Tony Glencross, Managing Director, Monitor Publications Limited, Uganda

I think the policy of expanded industrialization, in China and on the African continent and the massive focus on development and infrastructure, whilst taking the overall environment into account.

I understand that there are more scientists in China working on renewable energy, than in the rest of the world combined.

J. Adam Holbrook, Associate Director of Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, Adjunct Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

The anti-corruption reforms are key to China's forward progress.

Not simply just searching out corrupt officials, but also making the Chinese public more aware of the importance of these laws and making the rule of law more transparent.
You-Zhi Tang, CEO, Canada CleanTech Capital (China) Inc.

As a developing country with a population of 1.3 billion, China is facing serious challenges and difficulties in environmental protection and sustainable development.

However, I have been impressed that in the past few years China's top leaders have emphasized repeatedly the importance of building ecological civilization as their vision for the path of China's economic and social developments.

President Xi Jinping has spoken at many national and international occasions on building China's ecological civilization and this was one of the hot topics in last year's National People's Congress and People's Political Consultative Conference.

Indeed, China must take care of its environmental problems, make much better use of its limited resources, and achieve balance in economical growth, social development, and environmental protection and resources conservation.

China should and can be a leader in the world in terms of building ecological civilization, and achieving harmony between human and nature.
Michael Wenderoth, associate professor of marketing at Spain's IE Business School

2015 was a banner year with RMB being accepted as a reserve currency by the IMF, the launch of the Asian Infrastructure Bank - signaling China's ability to demonstrate and convince the international community that they were willing to make steps to reform.

Of course this did not happen overnight; it was a result of several years on concerted effort.