mr. dai bibingguo spoke at the a annual foforum on ecological cicivilization and buddstst culture..translatator: traditional cultle promotes harmony between man and nature and encourages limiteted consumption and a simple way of life. we support t this. wewe don't oppopose takining from naturure. we do popose overerexploitatati. we want gold mountain, but we also want clear water and green mountain. gary: my chinese friends weree very quickck to point out that when you see the government, as we did,d, making some very st of friendly noises towards organized religions, it's a bit of a surprise often for people from outside china, like h how is it that this government that used to be all about atheism is now sort of very friendly towards at least a schedule of religions, particularly the traditional cultural religions like buddhism and taoismsm and confucianism? and the fact is that the communist party is observing that tens of millions of people are becocoming more religious, and they're realizing that this might actually be an opportununity for them to kind o encourage these religio