As China continues to tighten information flows in and out of the country, how reliable are statistics from official Chinese sources? Recent media pieces have highlighted the deepening lack of government transparency and...
An investigation by China’s State Council has found that Henan officials covered up the death toll caused by severe flooding in July 2021. In August, local officials reported 302 confirmed deaths and 50 people still missing—the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
As it repositions itself as a potential leader in the global fight against climate change in...
For the first time in 2016, Beijing authorities have issued a five-day “red alert” for...
Amid China’s ongoing “war on pollution,” central authorities have signaled their...
At Nature, Shanghai Maritime University’s Zheng Wan warns that China’s scientific...
China will soon surpass the U.S. as the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gas, according to...
Following a research report stating that Beijing’s environmental conditions are...
Citing a recent blue paper by the Social Sciences Academic Press and the Shanghai Academy of...
As China pursues maritime claims on fronts as diverse as ADIZs and archaeology, South China...
The AFP reports on the toxic and deadly legacy left by a factory that ceased operation in 2009 in Shuangqiao, a small village in Hunan province: At least 26 villagers have died from cadmium poisoning and hundreds more fallen...
After years of increasing public demand, the Chinese government is to release pollution data in 74 cities. Malcolm Moore at Telegraph reports: […T]he Chinese state media said on Sunday that 496 monitoring stations would...
Zheng Ge, assistant professor at Hong Kong University, writes for Caixin about China’s environmental monitoring, calling for transparency in the release of data and decentralizing of government control: Environmental authorities...
On June 13, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Cui Tiankai made the following statement amidst...
Emulating the U.S. embassy in Beijing, the U.S. consulate in Shanghai started issuing hourly air...
Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau: U.S. Consulate Publishing PM2.5 Air Quality Data Illegal...
As Beijing is putting new regulations on the monitoring of air pollutants, China is telling foreign embassies to stop reporting on air quality. According to Xinhua, the air data from these embassies are ‘inaccurate’ and...
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