General Motors Co and its China partner, SAIC Motor Corp Ltd, said Wednesday they have agreed to boost cooperation in the development of new energy vehicles.
China and the United States should team up in clean-energy development to boost energy conservation and environmental protection, analysts have said.
A new tax law, to encourage the use of smaller engines in vehicles and vessels to reduce pollution and oil dependence, is under consideration.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, environmental advocate and senior adviser to Starwood Energy Group, said on Monday that the group is exploring investment opportunities in the Chinese utility-scale renewable generation industry in the booming green sector.
A polluter was handed a prison term on Friday in the capital's most serious environmental protection case to date.
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.
Private equity firm Silver Lake has invested in a Chinese energy efficiency firm Nobao Renewable Energy Holdings, seizing growth opportunities in China's booming green sector.
China's first solar thermal power plant began soliciting tenders on Wednesday as the country's efforts to diversify its clean energy sources gathered pace.
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.
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.
French industrial group Alstom is increasing its focus on clean energy industries in China to expand in the world's fastest growing market, the company said on Monday.