Zhaohua Li is an American-born independent journalist based in Beijing. He has written on Asia for the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle and Frommer's guidebooks, among other publications. He is currently also a Blakemore-Freeman fellow in Chinese language studies at Tsinghua University. His interests in China run from the energy and the environment to media and pop culture.
State-run media say the Chinese government plans to establish a fund worth close to $7 billion to alleviate problems associated with the Three Gorges Dam project, chiefly around Chongqing. The money will supposedly be used to protect the local environment, build infrastructure and alleviate the region’s staggering unemployment. But will the new money go where […]
Read MoreThe State Environmental Protection Administration takes its environmental storm to the next level. Will it work? ChinaWatch via China Environmental News Digest: Starting in 2008, China will expand its recent Regional Permit Restriction to provinces nationwide in an effort to push them to achieve pollution reduction goals, the country’s top environmental authority, the State Environmental […]
Read MoreA business article on prospects for Indian leather producers in The Economic Times suggests China is already suffering the economic costs of its new effort to shift in the direction of greener development–with happy results for its chief rival the Asian growth game: The recent clampdown by China on polluting tanneries has come as a […]
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Isabel Hilton follows up last week’s news of a mountain being painted green in southwestern China’s Fumin County with a commentary on what the incident reflects about China’s approach to environmental problems: The episode resonates with a long Chinese tradition of confusing appearance with reality. When, in the 1950s, Mao Zedong decreed […]
Read MoreA security guard walks in front of a gigantic pig at a Beijing market. Photo by WininChina.
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