From China National News: PetroChina has developed the country’s biggest natural gas field and built a 4,000-km (2,500 mile) pipeline over the past several years. Now comes the hard part. If China’s dominant oil and gas producer is to protect its already thin returns on the $8.5 billion West-to-East pipeline project, it must quickly develop […]
Read MoreFrom China National News: Drought in China has left over nine million people facing drinking water shortages and could take a heavy toll on spring planting around the country, the China Daily reported on Monday. Farmers planting rice in southern China and wheat in the north could expect little or no water to irrigate lands […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: More than 1,000 tonnes of contaminated household refuse disguised as waste paper on its way to be recycled in China is to be sent back to Britain after being intercepted in the Netherlands. Dutch environment ministry officials believe that British refuse is being systematically dumped in poor countries via the port of […]
Read MoreXinhua – English: The Chinese government will take environmental protection as an important indicator in evaluating local officials’ achievements. The State Environmental Protection Administration has proposed taking four factors into account: implementation of laws and regulations on environmental protection, the amount of pollution, changes in environment quality and satisfaction of the general public. The new […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: With its annual gross domestic product (GDP) growing by a breakneck 8% on average in the past 25 years, China has emerged as the picture of economic wonder. But its prosperity has come at a heavy cost to its ecology and natural resources. Alarmed by the warnings of green doomsdayers, the […]
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