Xin Guobin, vice minister of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) revealed on Saturday that as new energy vehicles (NEVs) experience fast development, China will set a deadline to stop the sale of gas-powered automobiles while pushing companies ......
China's first commercial solar thermal power station has begun a test run and is scheduled to send power to the grid by the end of this year, said the operator on Monday.The Delingha solar thermal power station operated by the China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) in n......
Over a half of 40,000 Chinese enterprises in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region have been found to be in violation of environmental regulations during the country's strictest-ever campaign against pollution over the past five months.Since the 18th National Congress of the ......
The government of Shandong, a large coastal province in eastern China, recently announced that it will take drastic steps to reduce coal consumption in the province. This suggests that China is beginning to tackle the problem of large aluminium companies that flout envir......
MEP held a symposium on the implementation of the action plan for the integrated air pollution control in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surrounding areas in the upcoming autumn and winter, and of the six supplementary plans. Minister Li Ganjie presented and spoke ......
Beijing's smog is expected to arrive earlier this year, said China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP).The smog, which often occurs in late autumn and winter, has already returned to the capital city in early September. Air quality started to worsen Saturday mor......
President Xi Jinping has reiterated the importance of combating air pollution, and emphasized that a blue sky also brings happiness. To improve the quality of air we breathe, emission control technologies have to be improved to target the source of pollutants, for which ......
China has pledged to cut PM2.5 concentration by at least 15 percent year-on-year in 28 northern cities from October to March to meet smog reduction targets, the top environmental authority said.A new Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional environmental protection bureau will be ......
China’s 13th Five-Year Plan on Ecological & Environmental Protection, released on December 5, 2016, indicates that China will accelerate the design, revision, and implementation of emission standards for non-road vehicles (e.g., agricultural tractors, loaders, and excava......
China has cooperated with South Korea and Japan to tackle air pollution and prevent sand storms, the environment minister said in a trilateral meeting on Friday.Environment ministers from China, South Korea, and Japan met in Suwon, on the outskirts of Seoul of South Kore......
