Ecotourism has been part of household vocabularies in China for years. However, one expert believes that the concept still has a long way to go in China, as most domestic tourists are more interested in…
Category: Environment
BEIJING – China should provide more policy support for the construction of a “green” economy, a Chinese expert said at a UN press conference held in Beijing on Friday afternoon. Experts and scholars were invited…
For centuries, when boys turned 17 in Nyingchi prefecture, the Tibet autonomous region, they were asked to cut down a giant spruce tree to prove their manhood. Dawa, a 40-year-old Nyingchi resident, said the murky…
China, the world’s second largest economy, is stepping up its efforts to achieve “ecological civilization,” officials and experts said at a world eco-forum that ended Sunday. Altogether 14 Chinese provinces are striving to build themselves…
China will start a pilot carbon emissions trading project, and gradually set up a carbon emissions trading market, said Xie Zhenhua, vice-minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), on Sunday at…
A huge oil spill off the Chinese coast has now contaminated an area around six times the size of Singapore, state media reported on Friday, as the government said it may seek compensation for the…
URUMQI – Summer’s first round of heat waves hit most parts of Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Thursday, with blisteringly high temperatures expected to torture southern Xinjiang in the next three days, according…
China said on Thursday that it will step up efforts to push forward its capacity construction for meteorological disaster monitoring and early warnings. The country aims to release warning information of disastrous weather conditions at…
Construction of the first wastewater treatment plant in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibetan Autonomous Region, was completed Thursday, according to local authorities. The plant, located at the junction of the Lhasa and Doilung rivers,…
BEIJING – ConocoPhillips said on Thursday that the total volume of oil spilled from the Penglai 19-3 Oilfield in northern China’s Bohai Bay is expected to reach about 1,500 barrels. The amount also includes oil-based…