Beijing will further reduce the number of new vehicle license-plates it issues in the next three years - a move to reduce traffic gridlock and ease air pollution - authorities announced on Friday.The Beijing Commission of Transport said the annual license plate quota in ......
Surging demand for cleaner fuel affects household heating and pushes up market pricesEvery day, before starting his shift, taxi driver Zhong Guishun heads to a gas station to fill his tank. Usually, the process only takes a few minutes, but last week it took more than tw......
AT NANYAWO elementary school in Hebei province, near Beijing, the temperature in early December fell below freezing, both outside and in. The teachers took to instructing the six-year-old children in the playground. At least outside it was sunny. The classrooms were unus......
Beijing residents, used to seeing smoggy winter days, have enjoyed what have been called amazing days free of pollution, for 80 percent of the time in November. The blue sky has continued, data from the top environment authority showed on Thursday.Data released by the Mi......
The government has been cracking down heavily in the last few years by removing coal- fired industriesChina has made a remarkable achievement by reducing the pollution level by nearly 40% in the three main metropolitan areas, including Beijing, by putting in place the wo......
China's government said it would give some leeway in allowing coal heating and other supplementary heating methods in Hebei-Tianjin-Beijing area in order to ensure people have sufficient warmth during winter, according to the Paper, citing an urgent document published Mo......
Air pollution has been notably reduced in Beijing, especially during the winter, and the city is likely to meet its smog control target of the year, a cabinet minister said Saturday.Minister of Environmental Protection Li Ganjie told an environment forum in Huizhou, Guan......
On Nov. 21, MEP held an on-the-spot meeting in Langfang Municipality of Hebei Province to wrap up the stage-based achievements in rectification of random polluters and integrated air pollution control in the autumn and winter. Minister Li Ganjie presented and delivered r......
The China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline has transported a total of 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas by Wednesday since it started operation in December 2009, meeting demand in the world's second-largest liquefied natural gas importer, according to China Nation......
China’s environmental protection watchdog has rapped officials from four northeastern cities for failing to contain the burning of crop waste that caused severe air pollution last month.Local officials from Harbin and three other cities in the northeastern province of He......
