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.
China Daily carries a summary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences‘ new “Outline for China’s Sustainable Development,” which predicts Chinese people will live to 85 on average by 2050 (roughly 13 years longer than they live now). According to the report, the average Chinese will also be in school for twice as long and spend […]
Read MoreAdd pollution to the long list of advantages China enjoys in the new global economy. State-run press just announced that China and the UN have agreed to set up a carbon trading exchange in Beijing”the first in the developing world. Via Xinhuanet: The proposed exchange is part of a program to pilot carbon trading in […]
Read MoreTwo wire services emerged from China’s first official press conference on the recently released UN report on climate change with opposite views on how Beijing plans to grapple with carbon emissions from its belching coal plants. Under the headline “China is set on curbing fossil fuels,” Reuters quotes Qin Dahe, chief of the China Meteorological […]
Read MoreReuters reports on an “exclusive” tip from a senior climate policy expert”Zou Ji at People’s University“that China is likely to release a plan to combat climate change this year, which is expected to set goals for carbon emissions and lay out strategies for dealing with changing weather patterns. Via Khaleej Times Online: The plan showed […]
Read MoreAn international media storm over the UN’s latest report on climate change, which declares global warming is already upon us and human activity is almost certainly responsible for it, has apparently failed reach China’s shores. From the AFP: China Central Television in its Friday night and Saturday news broadcasts failed to mention the report by […]
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