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.
Seems turning down the night lights on the Bund may not have done as much to reduce China’s energy consumption as thought. Via China Environmental News Digest: China last year missed its goals of making a 4 percent cut in the amount of energy it uses to generate each dollar of national income and of […]
Read MoreWith its successful pursuit of carbon emissions trading, China proves environmentalism need not be a non-profit venture, but the approach isn’t all blue skies. From Dow Jones: Chinese corporations and the government, through tax receipts, are major beneficiaries of the new system of trading in global carbon credits, according to a media report. The nation […]
Read MoreA man and his daughter sit in their doorway on a market street in Yantai. Photo by china.sixty4.
Read MoreThe English-language wires all have pieces today on the political resurrection of Xie Zhenhua (ËߣÊåØÂçé), the former head of the State Environmental Protection Administration, who resigned in 2005 after the Songhua River beneze pollution debacle. From AP via Taipei Times: Xie…has been appointed vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s most powerful […]
Read MorePassengers queue up at the Guangzhou train station. Photo by tao_Guangzhou.
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