I have to be honest; I haven't heard at all how the Chinese government received that particular message from the minister. I didn't hear one thing or the other. I think there was a strong sense for many that it was an interesting.... The fact that there was no number yet is perhaps what pressed some governments to say that you can say it's going to be about a certain magnitude but that they'd like to hear what the number is. People are speculating that this will come out either in the summit with Obama in November or at the Copenhagen conference.
On October 29th, 2009. See this statement in context.