BEIJING – The State Council on Thursday published a comprehensive plan to protect the environment and ecology on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau over the next 20 years. “The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is facing grave challenges due to…
Category: Environment
H.E. Mr. Yang Youming, Chinese Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, wrote an article on China’s environmental protection for the Guardian, a major newspaper of Trinidad and Tobago. The article was published in two parts on Jun 9th…
A old man in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province clears up his house after floods. Photo: CFP By Huang Jingjing Southern China is bracing for a new set of devastating floods and landslides after weather authorities announced…
BEIJING – The China Three Gorges Corporation says four planned hydroelectric power stations being built on the Jinsha River will be capable of producing twice as much power as the Three Gorges Dam, which is…
BEIJING – China’s top drug authority ordered the recall at the weekend of an antibiotic medicine that is laced with a banned plasticizer as public concern about plasticizer-tainted products builds. Test results showed that amoxicillin…
A makeshift raft provides an effective, if rudimentary, form of transport in a flooded village in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, on Sunday. Days of torrential rain have forced the evacuation of more than 500,000 people in…
XIAMEN, June 16 (Xinhua) — China’s State Oceanic Administration dispatched a marine monitoring team Thursday from Xiamen City, in China’s southeast Fujian Province, to monitor radiation in the west Pacific. The aim of the…
Residents walk along a flooded street in Kaihua county, Zhejiang province June 15, 2011. [Photo/Agencies] BEIJING – China has mobilised troops to help with flood relief and raised its disaster alert to the highest…
BEIJING — The State Council, or China’s cabinet, on Wednesday began soliciting public opinions on a draft regulation for the implementation of the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law, which will exempt electric cars, fuel-cell vehicles…
ON A cold evening last month a mob of more than 200 broke through a wall and trashed the offices of the Zhejiang Haijiu Battery factory in the eastern Chinese village of Mengxi.They were reacting…