Central government inspectors blitzed local authorities last year, promoting greater transparency and solving long-standing problems. Zheng Jinran reports from Beijing, with Tian Xuefei in Harbin and Li Yingqing in Kunming.The New Year saw northern China shrouded in a cl......
BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's environment minister said he "felt guilty" and "wanted to reproach himself" as widespread air pollution has harassed people's lives, an official statement said Saturday.Chen Jining, minister of environmental protection, made the remark......
By Shan JuanAs China wages a long-term war against air pollution, the government is being urged to seriously study how air pollution, and smog in particular, impacts human health over the long term and deliver targeted interventions as soon as possible.Real-time air moni......
Such is the speed of China’s energy transition that it’s hard for plans to keep up.The country’s new five-year plan for the energy sector, released yesterday, set targets that would have been celebrated as groundbreaking just a couple of years ago, but now seem positiv......
China unveiled its 13th Five-Year-Plan on energy development with the most far-reaching aims yet, writes Ma TianijeChina’s 13th Five-Year-Plan on Energy Development (Energy 13FYP) might be one of the most anticipated energy blueprints in the world for its far-reaching im......
As the air pollution crackdown in China’s eastern cities intensifies public outcry in the west is rising, writes Tang Damin and Zhang ChunThree years into Premier Li Keqiang’s declared “war on pollution,” and this winter’s smog is taking a new turn. On the one hand, ......
The electricity sector components of China’s 13th Five Year Plan reaffirm and strengthen previous commitments to establish electricity markets and to eliminate the generation quota system. The Chinese government has also committed to further reducing air pollution and gr......
Major polluting firms that falsify monitoring data or tamper with monitoring facilities will be charged with the crime of major environmental pollution accident, according to an updated judicial interpretation co-issued by the supreme court and procuratorate on Monday. T......
In 2001 China started to implement the vehicle emissions standard, China I. After 15 years of development, China IV has been applied around the country and the China V standard has been implemented in key regions. The standards have effectively reduced 90 percent of emis......
Assessments of government performance tied to binding targets set out in 13th Five-Year PlanChina will begin annual evaluations of the ecological progress made by provincial, city and county governments starting in 2017, which will facilitate policymakers' pursuit of gre......
