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.
Reuters runs a lengthy feature on how air pollution has become a cost consideration in one of the holy cities of global capitalism: Andy Ridehalgh, a British expatriate who has worked as an English teacher for three years in Hong Kong, has had enough of the city’s air pollution. He’ll move with his wife and […]
Read MoreWith Beijing hosting the World Water Congress, the Associated Press provides the latest update to the Songhua River pollution story (via China Environmental News Digest): China’s Songhua River, the site of a massive chemical spill last year that halted water supplies to tens of millions of people, has been hit by more than 130 water […]
Read MoreAn report from Xinhua via People’s Daily Online says a plan to stop providing free heat to residents in northern Chinese cities go into effect this winter: The core of the reform, initiated by the Ministry of Construction, lets employers off the hook for their workers’ heating charges. Requiring individual users to pay is expected […]
Read MoreRevived talk of Green GDP with a Reuters story on a new report from the State Environmental Protection Agency: It would cost China about $136 billion, close to 7 percent of GDP, to clean up all the pollution pumped out in the country just in 2004, the national environmental protection watchdog said on Thursday. A […]
Read MoreA detailed new essay from China Dialogue on sustainable urban development in China from a Chinese Academy of Sciences professor who also helps lead UNESCO’s China-MAB (Man and the biosphere) program: This urban explosion is linked to an unfortunate quest for large, foreign-style cities. Cities, plazas, roads, houses – the bigger and more foreign they […]
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