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.
From the English site of the People’s Daily: A tiny Chinese parasite is being bred by the millions in the hope it will decimate an infestation of the American White Moth that is eating a swath through forests and crops across China. The moth, native to North America, was first detected in Northeast China’s Liaoning […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via Yahoo! News: Tibetan exiles said they will protest next month’s opening of the world’s highest railway which links the Himalayan plateau with the rest of China. Exiles said they would hold rallies outside Chinese consulates worldwide against the July 1 opening of the railway which they fear will lead to a flood […]
Read MoreVia CNN.com: McDonald’s Corp. and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. announced an alliance Tuesday to build drive-through McDonald’s outlets, hoping to combine forces to profit from soaring Chinese car ownership. Under the agreement, McDonald’s and the Chinese partner, known as Sinopec, will turn an unspecified number of the 30,000 gasoline service stations that Sinopec operates […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: China is encouraging officials to spare some of their attention, usually focused on GDP growth, for energy conservation. Zhejiang, an economically booming province in the country’s east, has decided to add energy efficiency to the evaluation system on local officials’ performance. The new indicator is intended to encourage officials to score […]
Read MoreVia the China Environmental News Digest blog: China will not issue the statistical index assessing the “Green GDP” in the near future, a Chinese government official said. As most of the items used to assess green GDP are untradable, it is difficult for those indices to be formulated, the China Securities Journal quoted a senior […]
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