Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his new book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China. In a wide-ranging conversation,...
For the first time in 2016, Beijing authorities have issued a five-day “red alert” for...
The U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris has been extended by one day after parties...
China today accounts for more than half of the world’s photovoltaic (PV) production, and the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The word “airpocalypse” was used last January to describe record PM 2.5 levels in Beijing, and the...
Nanjing cancelled primary and secondary school classes on Thursday, while Qingdao banned outdoor...
After heavy air pollution brought life to a standstill for the second time this smog season in...
AP reports that heavy smog in in northeast China lowered visibility enough to close an airport in...
As winter approaches, it means the beginning of heavy-smog season in China. Currently, the...
China Digital Times has put together a News Map for major China-related news events in 2013. This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly. Catch up here on the major stories from the first half of the year: View CDT...
Bloomberg Businessweek contributor Christina Larson reports that gas masks are the latest must-have accessory for the commuting Beijing resident: One friend, who works for an environmental nonprofit in Beijing, advised: “I have...
As severe smog becomes a fact of life for people living in Beijing and other Chinese cities, families with young children are hardest hit, Edward Wong reports for the New York Times. Many families, both Chinese and foreign, are...
Data released by Beijing’s Cancer Prevention and Control Research Office indicates that cancer is the leading cause of death in China’s capital, according to Bloomberg Businessweek’s Christina Larson: Exposure...
In Beijing, levels of two key air pollutants in the first three months of this year had increased by nearly 30% compared with the same period in 2012, according to a Chinese media report which cited a local government official....
As delegates to the National People’s Congress confront the issue of pollution following Beijing’s winter “airpocolypse,” Yanzhong Huang of the Council on Foreign Relations weighs the health consequences...
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