China issued its first green development level report Thursday. Eastern provinces got higher ranks than western and central regions, while Beijing topped the list, China Environment News reported.
China issued its first green development level report Thursday. Eastern provinces got higher ranks than western and central regions, while Beijing topped the list, China Environment News reported.
Climate change will trigger a drop in China's grain harvest over the next few decades and threaten food security, a leading agriculturalist warns.
Delegates at a conference in Hong Kong on Wednesday speak highly of China's role in fighting against global climate change.
A new tax law, to encourage the use of smaller engines in vehicles and vessels to reduce pollution and oil dependence, is under consideration.
China's top legislature Monday began reviewing for the first time a draft law on vehicle and vessel taxation, as a bimonthly legislative session began.
China aims to reduce energy use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 17.3 percent from 2011 to 2015 and by 16.6 percent from 2016 to 2020, the Shanghai Securities News reported today, citing Huang Li, an official at the National Energy Administration.
China may include an environmental tax in the next five-year plan to control pollution, the 21st Century Business Herald reported Tuesday, citing Wang Chaocai, deputy director of the Institute of Fiscal Science at the Ministry of Finance.
Exhibition of new energy vehicles opens in Hangzhou A man inspects the dynamical system of an electric vehicle on a new energy motor show in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2010.
BEIJING - China's commitment to develop one of the world's largest renewable energy markets has led to global financial institutions competing for a slice of the pie as increasing numbers of domestic "green-power" players look abroad for business.
In an effort to build a low-carbon economy, Guangzhou on Wednesday unveiled 34 energy efficient projects, amounting to a total planned investment of 250 billion yuan ($37.37 billion).
A senior official of China's top economic planner Wednesday said China will likely reach its goal of improving energy efficiency by 20 percent from 2006 to 2010.