Corn planting back on schedule
Source: Chinadaily
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-20 06:35:26 -0700 | green-news
This is much the same level of progress compared with last year, the ministry said. The northeastern provinces and Inner Mongolia are the country's major grain grower, accounting for 23 percent of the country's grain production, 15 percent of its...
35 cities get green light for urban rail
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-20 07:14:24 -0700 | green-news
22 ( chinadaily.com.cn) Thirty-five cities on the Chinese mainland have got the green light to build nearly 6,000 km of urban rail lines, according to the China Communications and Transportation Association. The estimated cost of the lines will be about...
Red Cross raises $22 million for Lushan quake
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-17 18:31:21 -0700 | green-news
in donations for Lushan earthquake victims, according to a statement released Friday. Of the 135 million yuan worth of money and materials, 15 million yuan has been used in quake relief work, according to a statement from the Ministry of...
Nation to beef up metrological supervision
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-17 07:36:42 -0700 | green-news
A complete system will be established before 2020 to collect the metrological data of energy and resource consumption of 10,000 key energy-consuming enterprises in China on a real-time basis, according to a recently issued plan on the development of metrology,...
Environmental journalism campaign launched
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-17 02:15:56 -0700 | green-news
Combating air pollution was one of the main aims of the campaign, Chen Changzhi, vice-chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, announced. Protecting water sources and promoting renewable energy will also be highlighted. Lu Hao, chairman of the Environment...
Shanghai to reopen poultry market
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-17 02:15:55 -0700 | green-news
The industry has been badly affected by the recent deadly H7N9 bird flu outbreak. All live poultry markets were closed on April 6 for safety reasons, which, officials said, caused millions of yuan in losses. "The city is considering reopening...
Shanghai battery factory canceled over protest
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-15 17:56:59 -0700 | green-news
Shanghai Guoxuan New Energy said on Wednesday it had withdrawn its investment for the Songjiang program and would return the planned factory site to the local government, without claiming any compensation. The company gave in after hundreds of residents of...
Better handling of land requisition required
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-15 06:24:28 -0700 | green-news
The notice was released after several such cases were reported recently, triggering public anger. The ministry said the farmers' legal rights and interests should be the priority in land requisition, and local land authorities need to improve compensation policies involving...
S China Sea fishing ban to start
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-15 12:15:12 -0700 | green-news
About 20,000 fishing boats from the provinces of Guangdong and Hainan and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region will be affected, according to Wu Zhuang, director of the South China Seas Fishery Bureau under the Ministry of Agriculture. "Foreign boats will...
Deep-sea vessel to have 5-year trial period
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-15 06:24:23 -0700 | green-news
The administration said that in the next five years, the submersible's capabilities will be improved, and a team of oceanauts and maintenance workers will be created. The trial period will be in the area where the China Ocean Mineral Resources...
China to further promote CCS efforts
Source: Chinadaily
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-15 05:54:52 -0700 | green-news
The government will further encourage CCS demonstration projects in coal chemical and coal-fired plants, as well as steel and cement industries, the department of Climate Change of the National Development and Reform Commission said in a recent statement.
China ministry urges end to "forcible" land requisition: paper
Source: Reuters
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-14 20:18:48 -0700 | green-news
Topics A farmer waters his vegetable field near a housing estate in Yingtan, Jiangxi province, December 27, 2007. China's land ministry has issued an emergency notice calling for an end to forced, illegal land requisitions, the state-run People's Daily reported...
Eco-toilet concept struggles for acceptance
Source: Chinadaily
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-14 20:03:16 -0700 | green-news
The situation is especially prevalent where there is a lack of water. While NGOs try to promote composting toilets as a solution, they have found their efforts could hit a wall unless the notion of eco-friendly toilets is truly embraced...
Ministry approves environmental impact report
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-14 11:55:29 -0700 | green-news
China Guodian Corp has invested 24.68 billion yuan ($4 billion) in the hydropower project, which started construction in 2008. The project is expected to generate an installed capacity of 2,000 megawatts. Its reservoir will hold 3,135 billion cubic meters of...
Tougher punishments for polluters called for
Source: China News
Shanghai :: China | updated 2013-05-14 11:55:28 -0700 | green-news
The ministry on Tuesday revealed it had punished local governments and State-owned companies that failed to reach their 2012 emission reduction requirements. It named several companies belonging to a host of large State-owned enterprises, such as China Huadian Corp, China...
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