(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 ......
The wind finally arrived, on the eve before the opening of the annual top legislative session in Beijing, and cleared the heavy smog that had blanketed the capital for days.Five-Year Plan to share fruits of developmentMany officials breathed a sigh of relief, as a clear ......
China will intensify its efforts to reduce pollution, Premier Li Keqiang said in his annual Government Work Report on Saturday, citing as an example ambitious targets in fighting smog that will increase the number of days with good air quality."Pollution control and envi......
A fall in China’s coal consumption for two years in a row has raised hopes that the country has already experienced a peak in demand for coal, the major cause of smog and climate change.Consumption of coal fell 3.7% year-on-year in 2015, following a 2.9% drop in in 2014,......
Jiang Nan, an engineer at the Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center, will become busier after the capital doubles the number of monitoring stations in a bid to improve the network and step up efforts to curb pollution.Beijing currently has 35 air quality moni......
On March 3rd, MEP confirmed the decision of setting up three new departments (Water, Air, and Soil) to replace the current Pollution Prevention and Control Department and Total Pollution Control Department. It will be vital for implementing the central government’s requi......
