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.
Asia Media article via China Environmental News Digest (link): A reporter revealed Shanghai’s dirty secret live on national television yesterday by criticising the city’s drinking water quality in a question to Premier Wen Jiabao about the mainland’s environmental pollution. “Shanghai’s water is simply undrinkable, and what’s more it’s yellow,” a Taiwanese reporter, who identified himself […]
Read MoreZhou Shengxian, head of SEPA, has been popping up all over the media landscape after making a statement to the 10th session of the National People’s Congress about the need for more concentration on environmental issues. The latest from Reuters via Planet Ark (link): “Scientific approach to development” might seem like at empty slogan, but […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent (link): China’s spectacular economic boom will mean the death of its major economic and maritime hub, the Bohai sea, unless action is taken to stop industrial pollution of its waters, environmental advisers said yesterday. The warnings, yet another example of the crisis gripping the world’s fastest-growing major economy, come as China tries […]
Read MoreThe China Environment News Digest points to an article on Mongabay.com about the potentially bright future of wind power in China [Link]: Wind could become China’s second-largest source of electricity according to a Chinese energy expert. Wang Weicheng, an energy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, told reporters that China has the potential to install […]
Read MoreChinese Premier Wen Jiabao made the country’s deteriorating environment a centerpiece of his opening remarks at the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress yesterday. AFP has a basic summary here: Wen was introducing lawmakers assembled at the Great Hall of the People to energy-saving policies and other efforts planned for the next five years. […]
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