Minitrue: Strengthen Control on Shouguang Floods
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Aug 26, 2018
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Oct 18, 2017
The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts, the paper’s former Beijing bureau chief and current...
Dec 22, 2016
The tension between development and environmental protection in China has been most keenly felt in...
Mar 11, 2014
Due to increasingly stringent hydro project approval rules, and despite warnings of a...
Nov 6, 2013
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
Oct 25, 2013
At China.org.cn, Wu Jin reports the devastation of the upper Yangtze river by overfishing,...
Oct 22, 2013
The Guardian reports on the European firms that are helping China build up its hydropower...
Oct 10, 2013
The Economist highlights water pollution, disappearing rivers and U.N. standard-shattering water...
Sep 23, 2013
Critics accuse Chinese authorities of overemphasizing more politically convenient explanations for...
Aug 12, 2013
Amid a race to secure hydropower resources, The Guardian’s John Vidal writes that China and...
Jun 3, 2013
Reuters’ Eveline Danubrata describes Singaporean companies’ scramble to help address China’s severe water shortages: Singapore is a hub for water technology because of its own concerns about water security....
May 18, 2013
At The Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman reports the approval by Chinese environmental officials of a proposed 314-meter-tall dam despite fears about its effects on the ecology of Sichuan’s Dadu River, an indirect tributary of the...
May 8, 2013
At The New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports environmentalists’ frustration with the decision to resume damming on southwest China’s Nu River. The new dams are expected to displace as many as 60,000 people locally,...
Feb 3, 2013
“Shocking” news emerged last month of Chinese plans to resume hydropower exploitation of the Nu (Salween), Lancang (Mekong) and Jinsha rivers. At The Hindu, Ananth Krishnan reported that three new dams have also been...
Jan 25, 2013
China’s State Council has announced plans to resume hydropower development on the Nu (Salween), Lancang (Mekong) and Jinsha (a tributary of the Yangtze) rivers. Outgoing premier Wen Jiabao had repeatedly intervened to...
Dec 13, 2012
A new study (PDF) published by Probe International, based on around 60 other studies of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, backs earlier arguments that the disaster was caused by the weight of the Zipingpu dam reservoir. The authors...
Nov 20, 2012
Little more than a year ago, there was talk of Myanmar (also known as Burma) as a “Chinese California”, offering China a west coast onto the Indian Ocean. Now, Coke and Pepsi billboards glare at each other across...
Sep 14, 2012
In its rush to find sources of power, China has focused on hydropower. Following the construction of the massive Three Gorges Dam, work is now centered on the Jinsha River in Yunnan Province, where up to 30 dams are currently in...