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China plans to build a national renewable energy center to further support development of the industry, an energy official said yesterday. The center will be responsible for policy-making, key project and program management, market and industrial operations, database and ...
Werkhart World Wide 5-Star Alliance, China's leading architecture design group, on Wednesday introduced the world's latest green building certificate DGNB, as its latest effort in sustainable development. Compared with LEED, the first certificatation program to evaluate green ...
QINGDAO: China would need 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2015, doubling the 2008 level, Liu Xiaoli, a senior researcher at the energy research institute under the National Development and Reform Commission, predicted Monday. The nation's annual demand for the clean ...
China, the world's second-biggest energy user, approved the construction of 28 more nuclear power reactors under a revised target for 2020 to meet rising demand for clean energy and to accelerate development of the industry. Each of the one-gigawatt reactors will cost as much as ...
Modernized network to save energy, increase reliability and reduce costs BEIJING: Large-scale construction of China's modernized electricity network or smart grid is slated to begin in 2011, according to the nation's power grid operator. The timeline for the comprehensive system ...
BEIJING - China's western Qinghai province, containing major deposits of the country's "combustible ice," will see increased explorations for this emerging clean energy, Provincial Governor Luo Huining said on Saturday. The plateau province plans to allow large energy companies ...
IBM is opening a multi-million dollar lab to develop technologies for China's burgeoning smart grid market. The $40 million dollar Energy & Utilities Solutions Lab will be located in the IBM China Development Labs in Beijing. The company says it expects the lab, the first for IBM ...
BEIJING: The first carbon emission monitoring tower in downtown Beijing is being built in a greenbelt square south of Chang'an Avenue in Chongwen District, as part of a program to reduce the city's greenhouse gas emissions, a city official said Tuesday. The 50-meter-tall tower, ...
High energy-consuming air conditioners will be abandoned after a stricter energy efficiency rating system goes into effect in June. The new rating system categorizes air conditioners into three levels, two less than previously. Machines rated Level 1 are those that can save the ...
China has set the on-grid tariff for four new utility-level solar power stations in northwestern Ningxia region at 1.15 yuan ($0.169) per kilowatt hour (kWh), sharply lower than 4 yuan/kWh that Beijing approved for two pilot projects in 2008. The rate is slightly higher than 1.09 ...
TIANJIN: It seems to be a contradiction for a manufacturing powerhouse to lead the campaign on energy conservation and environmental protection, but Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) is working hard to achieve this. TEDA, a high-end manufacturing industrial ...
NANCHANG- China's first Lithium-New Energy High-tech Industry Base is to be established in Yichun in the eastern Jiangxi province.The base would cover 20 square km and its output value is expected to reach 100 billion yuan ($14.7 billion) by 2020, said Luo Zhiyong, director of ...
HOHHOT - The installed capacity of wind power in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region grew over 40 times to 7.3 million kilowatts by the end of March from 170,000 kw in 2005, figures released Thursday by a local power company showed. "Around 20 percent of power in the ...
SEOUL: South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Co, the world's leading shipbuilder, said Thursday that it has signed a joint venture deal with China's State-owned Datang Shandong Power Generation Co to build a wind turbine plant in China. The plant will be built in Weihai, China's ...
China will build an "industrial system" and "consumption pattern" with low carbon emissions, Premier Wen Jiabao said in the government work report he delivered at the parliament's annual session Friday. China will work hard to develop low-carbon technologies as well as new and ...
China has issued regulations on the development and construction of offshore wind power projects in a bid to promote reasonable use of sea space and resources and better protect oceanic environment. The regulations, jointly issued by the National Energy Administration and the ...
Three Chinese ministries will soon submit a proposal for an environmental tax on a trial basis, the China Business News reported on Thursday. The tax would be tested in four largely rural provinces, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Gansu, the newspaper said. The finance ministry, ...
ROME - The recovering of poplar forests in Siyang county in Eastern China's Jiangsu province is benefiting rural life and agricultural activities, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday. Thanks to a joint program launched more than 30 years ago by the ...
TIANJIN - The Philippine largest property company, Ayala Land Inc (ALI), has became the fourth foreign real estate developer to join an "eco-city" development project in Tianjin. The company signed an agreement to invest $220-million in the project Tuesday night, taking total ...
China may invest more than 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) in alternative-energy vehicles during the next 10 years to boost the industry, the Shanghai Securities News said. The spending is included in a draft plan for 2011 to 2020 that the Ministry of Industry and Information ...
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
CHICAGO -- Chicago held a ceremony Friday at the landmark Daley Civic ...
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
The first day of the peace conference in Montreux, was marked by ...
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Three people have reportedly been killed in Ukraine's capital Kiev ...
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Financial reform in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone will ...
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Global economy is likely to gain ...
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
There’s been much talk of China at the World Economic Forum-and a ...
China's banks must evolve or perish
China's banks must evolve or perish
As China's traditional banks raise interest rates to claw back lost ...
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court has rejected a lawsuit ...
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
China's 77 major steel companies reported an average profit margin of ...
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi Winter Games
Injured Olympic champion Wang Meng has been ruled out of the 139...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...