BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- In the Beijing of 2020, downtown residents won't need to walk more than ten minutes to reach a subway station and pedestrians will breathe in less car exhaust thanks to green vehicles.At least, that is the vision presented in a blueprint relea......
Seven provinces in China witnessed a deterioration in air pollution between 2013 and 2015, though most other regions saw improvements during the same period, news portal thepaper.cn reported Wednesday.The Chinese Academy of Engineering released Tuesday an interim report ......
Premature deaths from air pollution will rise to 4.5 million unless changes are made to the way the world uses and produces energy, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday.Around 6.5 million deaths globally are attributed each year to poor air quality inside......
Each year an estimated 6.5 million deaths are linked to air pollution with the number set to increase significantly in coming decades unless the energy sector takes greater action to curb emissions. Air pollution is a problem felt around the world, particularly the poore......
Electricity consumption by the manufacturing sector rose by only 0.5%, said the NBS, reflecting large-scale shutdowns of inefficient and unneeded capacity.By contrast, electricity consumption by service industries – which the 2016-2020 plan aims to encourage – was up by......
Danish company Haldor Topsoe, a world leader in catalysis, plans to help China alleviate its air quality pressure by building a catalytic plant in the country to reduce car emission.The company launched a 600 million yuan ($91 million) catalytic converter plant in Tianji......
Figures released last month by World Health Organisation (WHO) that ranked the world’s most polluted cities, included five Chinese cities – all of them in Hebei – in a “dirty thirty”.But the data, which was collected in 2014, hasn’t taken account of real improvements ......
Beijing has rolled out a new policy to give subsidies to encourage renovation of boilers to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides and improve the city's air quality, the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau announced on Tuesday.Renovated boilers with nitrogen ......
The Gaofen 4 high-resolution Earth observation satellite officially started operating on Monday to facilitate disaster relief and environmental pollution control.Zheng Guoguang, head of the China Meteorological Administration, said Gaofen 4 is at least 10 times more effi......
China's eastern coastal province of Fujian has introduced a range of measures aimed at improving the local environment, and has plans to implement more policies to improve conditions across the board.Unlike many northern cities that are frequently blanketed by heavy smog......
