It's still under discussion,

We will set limits to the amount of bear bile to be extracted and the number of bears to be raised in the farms, in accordance with the needs of traditional Chinese medicine.

We have introduced painless practices for extracting bear bile. Until we can find a good substitute for bear bile, we cannot accept the EU resolution that urges the elimination of bear farming.

This is a rare opportunity and we hope our partners will make friends with as many IOC worldwide partners as possible to learn from their experiences and strategies in marketing, sales and services which are very helpful to the Olympic marketing of the 2008 Games, and we are confident that these experience will become a precious legacy for the Chinese enterprises after 2008.

The survival rate of the newly planted trees has reached 90 percent.

The annual quota of the trees to be felled in the province is set by the Central Government.