From People’s Daily Online: Additional funds budgeted for China’s water conservancy projects will be spent in protecting water resources, rehabilitating ecosystems, ensuring drinking water security and increasing grain yields, officials have announced. “For these purposes, water authorities will tighten up controls over investment programmes on projects to be built in the years ahead and keep […]
Read MoreFrom ISN: A notable feature of 2004 was its volatility in oil prices – New York light sweet crude prices reached a peak of US$55.67 on 25 October ending the year up 33.6 per cent at US$43.45 per barrel. While a number of supply-side and supply-chain factors have contributed to this situation, the most significant […]
Read MoreFrom New Kerala: China will see a construction boom of green, energy-efficient buildings in the coming 15 years, reports Xinhua. By 2020, China will transform all existing buildings into energy-saving buildings, according to Construction Vice Minister Qiu Baoxing. Buildings built after 2005 will embrace new technology that could save 65 percent more energy per square […]
Read MoreFrom UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, via World Peace Herald: Officials from China’s environmental agency have decided to allow work to resume on 26 of 30 projects which had not filed proper impact reports. The State Environmental Protection Administration ordered building to stop Jan. 18 at various constructions sites, mainly hydroelectric and thermal power generating plants, State-run […]
Read MoreFrom Turkish Weekly: At a national maritime awards meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 20 December 2004, Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan emphasized the importance of marine development, regulation of China’s maritime territory, protection of marine ecology, and rapid development of the marine economy. The Vice Premier was acknowledging the fact […]
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