|
German engineering giant Siemens has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangzhou to conduct a joint sustainability study on the city' s urban development.
|
|
The NDRC cut preferential electricity rates for high energy consuming businesses on August 6th, only three days after the Chinese statistic authorities announced that the energy efficiency of China's economy decreased by 0.09 percent in comparison to the previous year.
|
|
China will impose nationwide a tax on oil and gas drilling and other resource industries to raise money for development in poor western regions, an official said Thursday.
|
|
China, the second-largest energy consumer in the world, plans to establish 13 solar power projects in its western region, as part of the government's efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions and boost energy development in the region, the China Daily reported.
|
|
Authorities will push ahead with pollution control along the eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) project, which has sparked widespread concerns over its poor water quality since construction kicked off eight years ago.
|
|
Shandong provincial Development and Reform Commission has published its three-year targets for the local photovoltaic (PV) industry, and has set provincial feed-in tariff rates for solar power stations this year at RMB 1.7 per kilowatt hour, Xinhua reported July 5.
|
|
China's central government has approved proposals to establish a national-level new-energy demonstration city in Turpan in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, and the first low-carbon demonstration township in the Jujiapu Financial District of Tianjin, according to Zhang Baoguo, head of the National Energy Administration (NEA).
|
|
The world's second-largest energy consumer, started construction of its first carbon dioxide capture and storage demonstration project in Erdos in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
|
|
China is mulling using environmental indices as a yardstick to evaluate the performances of local governments and officials as the country seeks to convert its development mode to a green one, experts said Sunday.
|
|
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $100m loan for a key urban environmental initiative in Wuhan municipality in China that may servce as a model for sustainable management of wastewater sludge in the country.
|