Chinese authorities had issued more than 20,000 pollutant emission permits by the end of 2017, an official from the Ministry of Environmental Protection said.The permits were granted to companies nationwide in 15 sectors including steel, iron, and cement, said the minist......
Li Ganjie stresses the importance to follow the guidance of the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the guiding principles of the 19th National Congress of the CPC, take a firm stand and put up a good and tough figh......
Beijing environmental protection departments strengthened regulations on heavy-duty diesel vehicle emissions in 2017 in the capital city's battle to cut down air pollutants and improve air quality.In 2017, the city inspected 20.04 million vehicles on roads, of which 58,0......
The southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu has seen the concentration of major air pollutant PM2.5 fall 42.3 percent in four years.The reading of PM2.5, smaller airborne particles more damaging to health, stood at 56 micrograms per cubic meter in 2017, down by 10.2 percent......
Beijing will close 500 general manufacturing and polluting enterprises, after shutting down 651 in 2017. The city removed 1,992 such companies from 2013 to 2017 as part of the capital's five-year clean air action plan, surpassing the target of 1,200.Last year, the 651 en......
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......
