During the years of the Cultural Revolution, then Party Secretary Wu Renbao led Jiangsu Province’s Huaxi village towards urbanization. Today, Huaxi is China’s richest village. Tini Tran covers the story of Huaxi for...
Read MoreAt the UN General Assembly gathering today to tackle global warming, President Hu Jintao announced steps China will take to reduce emissions, without naming a specific numerical goal. From the Guardian: The proposals, delivered...
Read MoreJonathan Watts posts to the Environment Blog at the Guardian: The need for a new air pollution index in Beijing was gloomily apparent today as visibility plunged, yet official statistics indicated the Chinese capital was just...
Read MoreJonathan Watts, who is now the Guardian’s Asia environment correspondent, reports for the paper on deforestation in China. He begins the report by describing the massive tree-planting effort known as the Green Wall of...
Read MoreJonathan Watts from TheObserver reports on the recent protest against a Beijing landfill site. In a sign that the Olympics feelgood factor has already begun to evaporate, protesters took to the streets of Beijing yesterday in an...
Read MoreJonathan Watts reports in the Guardian (with video clips): Up close, the sound of global warming at the face of the Urumqi No1 Glacier is a simple, steady drip, drip, drip. Just 30 metres from the main wall, the flood of...
Read MoreJonathan Watts reports in the Guardian, from Beijing: Beijing’s Olympic organisers are planning a new set of emergency measures to reduce pollution after the draconian steps introduced a week ago failed to halt a grimy...
Read MoreJonathan Watts reports in the Guardian: Chinese security forces claimed today to have foiled five “terrorist” plots against the Olympics amid an intensifying pre-games crackdown that has seen police kill five Uighur...
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: In the fourth part of our series, Jonathan Watts reports from China, where rising demand for meat from a growing middle class is destabilising world food prices. … young Beijingers are becoming as...
Read MoreDanwei.org, an English-language website that tracks Chinese media from inside the Mainland, concluded their Second Plenary Session last week. In attendance were two British and two Chinese journalists: Lindsey Hilsum of Channel...
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