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.
A new development in the Shangri-la Promise Pollution story from Reuters (link): China will fine the crew of the country’s most expensive movie, “The Promise” by Oscar-nominated director Chen Kaige, for damaging the environment in an area of outstanding natural beauty, state media said on Wednesday. The producers neglected to carry out an environmental impact […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via China Environmental News Digest (link): Rising pollution levels in China’s Three Gorges reservoir are increasing the risk of an ecological and public health disaster, a leading national scientist says. “After water started to accumulate in the reservoir, the flow rate of the (Yangtze) river dropped, resulting in a decreased ability of the […]
Read MoreEnglish report from the Worldwatch Institute based on reports in local Chinese press (link): More than 100 villagers rampaged through a tannery complex in Quanzhou in China’s eastern Fujian Province on April 9, attacking several factories over their air and water pollution, the local paper Strait News reported. Attacks on four factories took place between […]
Read MoreThe following is an excerpt from a column on China’s 11th five-year plan by the Nobel Laureate that appeared in the Taipei Times (link): Part of the key to China’s long-run success has been its almost unique combination of pragmatism and vision. While much of the rest of the developing world, following the Washington Consensus, […]
Read MoreFrom Yonhap via the Korea Times (link): South Korea and China urgently need a system to exchange information on the yellow dust phenomenon, seasonal storms that choke the Korean Peninsula each spring, the Environment Ministry said Monday. Yellow dust, originating from the Gobi Desert in central China, is carried over to Korea by prevailing easterly […]
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