BEIJING - China's wind power generation has picked up amid government efforts to expand clean energy to curb pollution.Wind power generation totaled 305.7 billion kilowatt hours in 2017, accounting for 4.8 percent of the country's total power output, up 0.7 percentage po......
China issued one third of the world’s green bonds in 2017 and has quickly become a world leader in green finance, a relatively new area that focuses on money products related to sustainable business.But of the US$38.6 billion in green bonds issued by Chinese institutions......
BEIJING, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- China will release a three-year plan to fight for cleaner air in 2018, Minister of Environmental Protection Li Ganjie said over the weekend.By 2020, cities at the prefecture level and above will see more good air days, accounting for 80 percen......
Ozone pollution is dropping across many parts of the United States and Western Europe, but levels have been increasing in East Asia, reflecting increasing pollution emissions, according to new research published on Monday.It is the conclusion from the world's first surfa......
China is revising its environmental monitoring regulations to prevent officials from interfering or falsifying data, a move taken after authorities were recently exposed for spraying mist near stations to improve air quality readings.The Regulation on Environmental Monit......
In several recently released local government work reports, enhancing construction of an ecological civilization, promoting ecological environment protection and propelling green development are listed as core tasks for 2018 and the next few years. Moreover, several loca......
A revamped monitoring system has enabled environmental authorities to identify and contain pollutants in North China, leading to measurable marked improvements in air quality this winter, Chinese media reported Tuesday.Most of the 28 cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei p......
A government action plan on air pollution has achieved better-than-expected results, an official said Wednesday, as authorities have taken serious efforts to address the issue.The plan, released by the State Council in 2013, aimed to cut the density of inhalable particul......
Air quality in Beijing was once so bad potential expats like me would have second thoughts about returning to China.Large cities, such as Beijing and New Delhi, suffered smog from cars and coal burning. So I am very happy to see more blue sky over Beijing, as the city is......
BEIJING -- Beijing plans to phase out coal-fired heating in 450 villages in plain areas this year in its latest bid to tackle air pollution.Households in the 450 villages will switch from coal to gas or electricity for heating, according to Sun Wenkai, head of the Beijin......
