A Chinese meteorological official has urged countries' reasonable room for development to be ensured in global climate change talks, according to a document released Friday following the China Sciences and Humanities Forum.

Zheng Guoguang, director of the China Meteorological Administration, said at the forum China will actively push for measures for the international community to deal with climate change.

China has tens of millions of people living in poverty and more people living with low incomes, Zheng said, stressing that reasonable and sufficient room for development is needed for developing countries to secure sustainable development, alleviation of poverty and improvement of the people's lives.

These are also the rights of developing countries as enshrined in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), he added.

Zheng noted that there are some possible deadlocks, such as the differences on the dual-track negotiations, medium-term emission reduction goals for the developed countries, and problems over funds and technology, to be dealt with during the ongoing UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico.

Further, every country should take their due share in addressing the climate change issue, Zheng said.

China has made various efforts in dealing with climate change, such as including energy saving goals in the country's development plans, Zheng said.

In the past five years beginning in 2006, China has emitted 10 percent less pollution than in the previous five years, said Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, on Wednesday.

China has also included significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and energy savings as targets in the proposal for the country's development plan for the next five years.

(Xinhua News Agency December 4, 2010)