"At no time should we take hasty and reckless actions, drain the pond to catch the fish, or focus only on GDP growth," President Xi Jinping stressed the importance of ecological conservation during a group deliberation with fellow deputies from Jiangsu province at the two sessions.

China has devoted great efforts to ecological conservation over the past decade. Will China be able to stick to its philosophy of green development while maintaining economic development? We talk with Shakeel Ahmad Ramay, a Pakistani expert on ecological civilization, to find out.