Call for Cull of Officials to Curb Waste Censored
The Wall Street Journal’s James T. Areddy reports that Beijing’s campaign against...
Jan 23, 2014
The Wall Street Journal’s James T. Areddy reports that Beijing’s campaign against...
Oct 21, 2013
Frenzied demolition and construction produced an estimated two billion tons of waste across China...
Aug 30, 2013
Bloomberg Businessweek has published a lengthy excerpt from contributor Adam Minter’s...
Jun 11, 2013
In China, food serves an important social function and providing an abundance of it, often more than one can eat, is seen as a sign of status and hospitality. However, growing awareness of food waste, especially among the...
Jan 25, 2013
Yuan Longping, an agricultural scientist at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the “father of hybrid rice”, has publicly endorsed the implementation of fines for wasted food. Yuan, famous for developing the first...
Sep 30, 2012
Amid concerns of corruption during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xinhua reports 85 million Chinese traveled on the first day of the long holiday. Holiday travel has been infamous for straining the already stressed transportation...
Aug 19, 2012
A precarious economic outlook and efforts to stem officials’ conspicuous consumption have prompted fears for the health of China’s luxury market. Sales of prestigious Moutai liquor have indeed drooped, but Hermes and...
Jun 15, 2008
From AFP: Three containers with suspected toxic electronic waste from the United States were detained by Hong Kong inspectors after environmental activists boarded a cargo ship, a campaigner said Sunday. The activists from...
Aug 23, 2007
One of China’s more prolific columnists details for China Dialogue the sundry ways in which Chinese officials waste money that might otherwise be spent protecting the environment: In the past few years China’s central government has begun promoting the concept of a “conserving society”. But this should not just be an economic concept; it should […]