"The core of a company's green wealth is to make a balance between pursuing fortune and protecting the environment." -- Long Yongtu, former secretary-general of the Boao Forum for Asia.
There is a fundamental paradox in China's energy policy, which is made all the more visible by recent trends in the electricity and transportation sectors, and cities.
The shift in focus highlights the challenges the world is facing today, which may not be any less daunting than those faced during the devastating financial crisis years.
Flexibility and compromise are essential to paving way for translating the targets and projects made in Copenhagen into specific legally biding treaties against global warming at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Cancun in December.
In fact the deliberate reduction of power supply is part of a concerted national effort to limit energy consumption, negotiated between the central and provincial governments.
Smog blurred the skyline on Oct 6 morning as I opened the curtain of my hotel room in Tianjin. The day was hot and stifling; the heat and CO2 seemed to be trapped beneath a blanket of smog.
The 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), which will map out the economic and social development initiatives of the central government, will serve as crucial guidelines for realizing the target of building a well-off society by 2020.
The astonishment that China's top energy official expressed over the United States' decision to investigate the country's clean energy policies must be widely shared by global proponents of a greener and more sustainable future.
Chinese policymakers insisted that the latest hike in domestic gasoline prices was only meant to reflect fluctuations in the global oil market.
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