If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.

— Ma Jun

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all the environmental costs.

— Ma Jun

It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.

— Ma Jun

On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

— Ma Jun

The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

— Ma Jun

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

— Ma Jun

We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

— Ma Jun

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

— Ma Jun

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

— Ma Jun

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

— Ma Jun