How Bad is China’s Water Shortage Problem?
Forestry officials said Monday that China’s wetlands have shrunk almost 9 percent since...
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Beijing Sees Its Own Reflection in Water Crisis
Critics accuse Chinese authorities of overemphasizing more politically convenient explanations for...
China’s Tallest Dam Gets Environmental Green Light
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...
Electromagnetism Fears Spark Protests
China has seen numerous protests triggered by fears of chemical pollution. Two incidents in the past month have revolved instead around concerns over health threats from electromagnetic radiation, despite the lack of evidence...
CDT Money: The Numbers Game
Last week’s key data release signaled continued weakness for China’s manufacturing sector, with HSBC’s preliminary purchasing managers index (PMI) shrinking for an eighth straight month in June. Reuters reports...
China’s Looming Conflict Between Energy and Water
China’s growing thirst for energy is driving increased exploitation of inland resources. At Yale Environment 360, Christina Larson examines the environmental implications of China’s ‘West-to-East Coal-Power...
Chinese Regions Face Severe Winter Power Shortage
Reuters reports fresh warnings of looming power shortages in southern and central China, as hydropower is pinched between growing demand for water and diminished supplies, and coal generation squirms between high fuel costs and...
Drought, Mine Closures Cut Power to Southern Factories
The frenzy of manufacturing in southern China is fed by a “West to East Electricity Transmission Project”: the South-North Water Diversion Project’s less glamorous sibling. Generation in the west has been hit...
Who Is the Guilty Party?
At Inside Out China, Xujun Eberlein translates an anonymous friend’s account of trying to rectify a new apartment’s illegally modified electricity meter: Two years ago, I bought a tiny flat from a stranger. While...
Volts Don’t Lie? An Alternative Approach to Calculating China’s Growth
China Real Time looks at problems and complications with the Li Keqiang-endorsed use of electricity production as an indicator of economic output. Factors ranging from coal prices to the weather can distort the picture....
Hydropower Dams Fuelling Conflict in Burma
Chinese hydropower projects have been accused of exacerbating violent unrest in Burma. The dams in question are being built by Chinese companies with Chinese funding, and are intended to produce electricity in large part for...
Chinese Engineers Eye Tibetan Rivers
Recent droughts along the Yangtze have highlighted the long-term uncertainties surrounding projects like the South-North Water Diversion, as the supposedly plentiful waters of the South failed even without the additional burden...
More Warnings of Electricity Shortages Across China
Caijing issues further warnings about electricity shortages around China, which have led to power rationing and stuttering production lines. Many measures have been applied to industries in Zhejiang Province as well. Some have...
China’s Power Outages Come Early and Often
BusinessWeek’s Dexter Roberts examines the tangle of natural disasters, infrastructure failures, commercial pressures and political wrangling which undermines the electricity supply to parts of China. Companies are...
China’s Looming Power Shortages: Blackouts, or Blackmail?
The Financial Times’ beyondbrics blog peers behind recent warnings of power shortages in China in the coming months: [Is] this a real threat? Or is it just sabre-rattling by power companies keen to secure from the...
“Smart” Energy Management for China’s Transmission Grid
Merging electricity infrastructure with information technology, the Smart Grid is a project that aims to reduce China’s energy consumption per unit of GDP. From Renewable Energy World: On November 9th the Chinese...
China’s Poor Anhui Gears Up For Nuclear Plant
Electric power is in demand in order to keep pace with the economic development in the Province of Anhui. Anhui government is looking to nuclear power as the solution. From Reuters: China’s poor eastern Anhui province is...
China’s Power Crisis Deepens as Coal Supply Dwindles
From Bloomberg: China, the world’s second-biggest energy consumer, is facing a deepening summer power crisis that may persist into the winter months, the nation’s dominant electricity distributor said. State Grid...
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