Almost 78 percent of complaints the public made to the national environmental watchdog on its hotline in the first half of this year was about air pollution.However, the authority needs to improve its services to deal more effectively with the complaints, some hotline us......
BEIJING - The Ministry of Environmental Protection received 696 public tip-offs about pollution in the first half of the year, more than 75 percent of them about air pollution, it said on Monday.Others involved water, noise and waste pollution, according to a ministry st......
BEIJING - China saw an "overall improvement" regarding air pollution from burning straw this summer, the Ministry of Environmental Protection reported Friday.Northern farmers traditionally burn straw after harvest and plough to bury the ashes in the ground, which they be......
Since 2011, the Chinese government has made significant progress in developing comprehensive air quality plans, by adopting new ambient air quality and emission standards, deploying more than 1,000 new air quality monitors, and establishing stringent air quality improvem......
Qi Ye, director of public policy centre in Beijing, says China is showing 'global leadership' on climate change and it will look to clean energy technologiesChina may aim for an earlier greenhouse gas emissions peak before its 2030 deadline, putting a greater onus on Aus......
KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Air quality and snow conditions are regarded as two of the major challenges for Beijing's bid for 2022 Winter Olympic Games, but on Tuesday, the city's bid officials gave an answer and solution to all the concerns, promising clean air an......
Beijing, along with Tianjin Municipality and Hebei province, a region referred to as Jingjinji, are bonding together to improve the air quality for the September military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.Standard of the air quality will be s......
BEIJING - Nearly 75 percent of China's big cities failed to meet air quality standards in June, the environment ministry said on Monday, an improvement over the same month last year, as the country continues to wage "war on pollution."Nineteen cities met air quality stan......
A recent social survey by the municipal government found that most Beijing residents put addressing air pollution as top environmental priority in the next five years.The 13th Five-Year-Plan compiling work leading group office of Beijing government released the results o......
The nation's greenhouse gas emissions could peak at most five years earlier than expected, the annual blue book on China's low-carbon economic development said on Thursday.Greenhouse gas emissions are likely to peak between 2025 and 2030, according to the Global Low-carb......
