BEIJING - China Tuesday unveiled its first regional green development index ranking, which takes into account economic performance as well as various environmental indicators.The index covers 55 indicators, including energy consumption efficiency, carbon emissions, air q......
More effective technology and equipment should be developed to monitor air pollution in China, according to experts in the field, and a new key laboratory is being built to make sure that happens."China has been lagging behind some developed countries in its ability to p......
The Chinese internet is buzzing with complaints about heating shortages in Hebei. The government had set this winter as the target to finally clean up residential coal heating in a wide swathe of the province by switching from coal to either natural gas or electricity.Bu......
China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) Friday criticized Changchun city in northeast China's Jilin Province for not doing enough to cope with air pollution. In the first 10 months of this year, air quality in Changchun saw continuous degradation, with the amo......
China’s natural gas consumption has surged in the first 11 months of 2017 due to strong demand from industry and winter heating, official data showed on Dec 18.The country saw a 18.9-percent year-on-year rise in natural gas consumption, which totaled 209.7 billion cubic ......
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......
