Su Shi, a litterateur in the Northern Song Dynasty, said in hisOde to the Red Cliff, “Things flow like a river, but after all, they don’t really pass away. Things wax and wane like the moon, but after all, there is no real increase or decrease”; Spencer Johnson, a globally famous author and thinker, said that “the only thing constant in the world is the change itself”; Guiguzi, a Chinese ancient strategist, said that “the variations of common and unusual tactics are endless like a circle”; all these illustrate a philosophical idea that everything in the world keeps changing.

Reflecting quietly on all laws and observing carefully all things, you will find that there are no constant laws, it is natural that all things wax and wane, and that “the only thing constant in the world is the change itself”.

Life is like this, so is the environmental protection industry. Affected by the overall trend of history, the environmental protection industry was quite popular once and opportunists did their utmost to pursue profits and trick; yet it is now in the most difficult, darkest, severe winter and is full of cliffs and abysses. As a player in it, BGE encounters continuous setbacks. How to avoid being knocked out or becoming a steel needle being hammered? The answer is to eradicate the false while keep the true, eliminate the unnecessary and find ultimate truths in simplicity.

All things are simplest at the beginning, and then evolve into complicated ones. Simplicity is both a capability and a state. From Confucianism to Taoism, from Chuang-tzu’s Xiaoyao (easy, free and carefree) to Wang Yangming’s Mindology (neo-Confucianism), ultimate truths are simplest and easiest, so they are all-embracing and paramount.

The key of getting established lies in simplicity which means pure mind; the key of the philosophy of life also lies in simplicity which means being practical and effective. The ultimate simplicity is great wisdom. As a player in the environmental protection industry, BGE should re-adopt the simple approach, spurn the false and whitewash, keep moving on and making efforts, as well as carry out in-depth study to get knowledge and put them into action.

Day after day the rays of the sun and moon never change. You will master the laws of the world and be as great as the earth and heaven if you can conduct in a simple and easy way. Human beings tend to be influenced by material desires. One can bring the changes of the world under control if one masters the simple and easy. Only through firmly implementing the principle of eradicating the false while keeping the true, fully putting minimalism into action, reorganizing from time to time, and conducting quantitative assessment across the board can BGE find the exactly right solution.

We resolve to digitalize everything. We, having a clear vision, commit ourselves to making data-based decisions, to simplifying and to quantifying. We are pragmatic and will get rid of all useless pseudo demands and procedures. We, keeping getting a deep and solid understanding of our ancestors’ wisdom and improving our own characteristics, will definitely become stronger after hardships and achieve rebirth after the darkest period.