BEIJING -- Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, registered the country's worst air quality in the first quarter of 2016, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said Monday.In the three months from January to March, Urumqi suffered fro......
Three cities have reached their environmental improvement goals with sharp reductions in airborne particulate pollution matters after having serious talks with environmental protection authorities, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said.The ministry held talk-down......
South China's Shenzhen City in Guangdong Province will introduce a carpool lane limited to vehicles with at least one passenger during rush hour on working days.The high_occupancy vehicle lane, or HOV lane, will open on Binhai Road, a freeway connecting the city's Nansha......
Hebei has achieved its target of lowering airborne PM2.5 levels by more than 20 percent two years ahead of schedule, according to the province's Environmental Protection Bureau.The average concentration of PM2.5 in the province last year was 28.7 percent lower than it wa......
A bird's eye view of Zhengzhou city, Central China's Henan province, which is seeing an increase in air pollution due to the large_scale construction the city is undergoing, July 29, 2015. [Photo/VCG]Many cities across the country have taken bonus and penalty schemes in ......
In a joint statement issued on March 31 during Chinese president Xi Jinping’s US visit, the two countries have confirmed that they will sign the Paris Agreement at the UN summit held on April 22 in New York.A strong signal to other countriesIn the final text of the state......
China’s government hopes that co-ordinated development of Beijing and Tianjin with the neighbouring province of Hebei will help ease congestion, cut pollution, alleviate the soaring cost of living in the capital, spread prosperity and create new jobs. But a new report su......
The Shenzhen Environmental and Science Research Institute, Clean Air Alliance of China, and Energy Foundation China jointly-released their latest report “Multiple Wins for Blue Sky, Low-carbon and Economy: Shenzhen Experience.” According to the report, the main reasons......
RAP continues to provide input into the ongoing power sector reform efforts in China. As part of that work, RAP initiated a project to bring international power sector planning techniques to bear on the issue of coal generation overcapacity in China. Earlier RAP reports ......
As part of her visit to China in March, Janet McCabe, Acting Assistant Administrator for USEPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, and several of her colleagues met with representatives of environmental non-governmental organizations in Beijing. They had a wide-ranging discus......
