BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- China breathed significantly cleaner air in February 2016 than February 2015, with the average number of days with clear air across the country up nearly 10 percent, the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said on Thursday.The air qua......
Beijing is expected to be covered by smog for an entire week starting on Wednesday, the longest period of hazardous air pollution the city has encountered so far this year.China's National Meteorological Center said Tuesday that the smog will spread to North China and th......
Guangzhou is an important transportation hub situated at the heart of the Pearl River Delta, so emissions reduction is a big challenge. However, monitoring data showed that the air quality has steadily improved because of its great efforts in four areas: 1) reducing the ......
China will not pursue economic growth at the expense of the environment despite the slowing economy, Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining said at a news conference on Friday.The country will continue to restructure its economy away from heavily polluting comp......
BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) -- China's environmental protection minister Chen Jining said Friday that the country is promoting the clean use of coal to curb air pollution."China's air quality is mainly caused by our energy structure, coal consumption specifically," Chen s......
(Beijing) – The northern province of Hebei plans to shut down 240 out of the 400 steel factories in the area by 2020, as part of the country's efforts to trim overcapacity that has driven prices to their lowest in decades, the provincial governor said on March 8.The prov......
In his address to China’s National People’s Congress on March 5, Premier Li Keqiang called for “heavy blows” to be struck against air and water pollution that have exacted a heavy toll on large swaths of the world's most populous country. Li cited targets to improve e......
During the second media meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), members of the national committee of CPPCC responded to hot topics such as the cause of haze, China’s carbon emissions, and the role of media in environmental protection. T......
Wrapping up two years of collaboration to advance state-of-the-art air quality management in China, the Technical Assistance Project for the China Air Quality Management Program hosted a final workshop and training on March 3rd and 4th in Nanjing. The initiative is a col......
BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Xi'an, one of the oldest cities in the world, is fighting "urban diseases" on its way toward a modern metropolis, Mayor Shangguan Jiqing said on Sunday.Shangguan, one of nearly 3,000 lawmakers gathered in Beijing for the national legislature ......
