Emissions are on a downward trend, but measuring accurately remains an ongoing challengeThe Foreign Economic Cooperation Office has recently made a series of achievements in researching mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants and polyvinyl chloride production ente......
As the largest auto market in the world, China has been committed to promoting electric vehicles (EVs) since 2009; the country aims to have 5 million EVs on Chinese roads by 2020. To reach this ambitious target, the Chinese government offers substantial fiscal subsidies,......
BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- China's Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining was appointed acting mayor of Beijing Saturday.The appointment was made at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress.The meeting also accepted the re......
BEIJING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has called for more efforts to push green development and green lifestyles as the country seeks to better balance economic growth and environmental protecti......
The seven central government environmental inspection teams stationed in Tianjin, Shanxi, Liaoning, Anhui, Fujian, Hunan, and Guizhou respectively sometime between Apr. 24 and Apr. 28, 2017 for the third round inspection, upon the approval of the CPC Central Committee an......
China’s state-planned power system is in for a shock as the government is planning to change the way it subsidises renewable energy and introduce a quota that nudges electricity companies to invest in renewables.In the first stage, electricity generators and retailers wi......
(Beijing) — Beijing and parts of neighboring Hebei province and Tianjin were blanketed by smog infused with high levels of ozone late Thursday and Friday amid a heat wave sweeping across parts of northern China.The concentration of ground level ozone peaked at 141 microg......
BEIJING - China's latest air pollution inspections have uncovered rampant violations of environmental rules among businesses, highlighting the tough battle ahead against pollution.From early April to May 11, inspectors discovered that some 6,378 companies, or 66.7 percen......
China may be on the cusp of a major energy revolution after successfully collecting samples of "combustible ice" in the South China Sea, a top official said Thursday."Combustible ice" is a natural gas hydrate that contains methane, and is found in tundra or seabed areas.......
MEP announced the Plan for Eco-environmental Protection Cooperation under Belt and Road Initiative (hereinafter referred to as the Plan) recently, in an effort to thoroughly carry out the guidelines of the important statement of General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered at ......
