China is adding its name to a growing list of countries that want to do away with fossil-fuel powered vehicles. Vice-Minister Xin Guobin of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on September 9 that MIIT is working on a timeline to ban t......
China will double its new energy cars development goal by 2020 as it reaches its target ahead of schedule.Cai Tuanjie, an official of the China's Ministry of Transport said, the number of new energy cars in China's transportation sector is expected to break 300,000 units......
Mountainous Guizhou Province, one of the country's poorest regions, aims to catch up with richer areas in energy conservation by building an extensive charging network for electric vehicles in urban areas.A five-year plan on reducing emissions, drafted by the provincial ......
Construction will be suspended in Beijing during the winter heating season in an effort to improve the city's air quality, the Beijing Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announced on Sept 16.Work on construction sites, including demolition and outdoor eart......
China's State Council has released a plan for the country's second national census on pollution sources, with the results to be published in 2019.Seven years after the results of the first national pollution census, the government launched a second survey to investigate ......
China is expected to boast the world's largest clean coal power system with high efficiency by 2020, the Xinhua-run Economic Information Daily reported on Wednesday.Since 2014, the coal-fired power sector has been renovating facilities to reduce emissions and save energy......
Ranish Piyumal Hettige was visibly upbeat when I met with him in Beijing in mid-August. A young official from Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment, he had just completed a one-week training session in the ancient Chinese city of Xi’an, home to th......
Provides details of a Chinese regulation for measuring pollutants in exhaust from in-use diesel vehicles using remote-sensing equipment. China is the first country in the world to implement such on a national level. The regulation took effect on July 27, 2017 and replace......
China plans to use bioethanol gasoline nationwide by 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission and National Energy Administration (NEA) said Wednesday."The plan was unveiled as the country is pushing the use of biofuel, which is renewable, applicable, tech-sav......
Researchers from the United Kingdom and China will collaborate on five projects to develop the "next generation" of technology in wind and wave power.The UK's Natural Environment Research Council and the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council have pledged 4 mil......
