China has made significant efforts to pursue energy and resource efficiencies to achieve sustainable development, while the nation still faces challenges in the transition to a low-carbon economy and needs integrated solution systems.
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.
China's first Lithium-New Energy High-tech Industry Base is to be established in Yichun in the eastern Jiangxi province.
Last year China overtook the United States in the race to invest in wind, solar and other renewable sources of energy to become the world's biggest investor in clean energy, according to a report published by a US-based think tank.
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.
While the capital's per-capita GDP falls short of world city levels, Beijing has the potential to become a global leader in the "low-carbon" concept, experts said.
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.
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.
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.
China beat the United States for the first time last year in investments in low-carbon energy like wind and solar power.
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.
Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co (ZPMC), the world's largest port equipment maker, is planning to expand into the nation's high-speed railway and wind power sectors, making them its new growth engines, company President Kang Xuezeng said on Friday.
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.
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.
IBM is opening a multi-million dollar lab to develop technologies for China's burgeoning smart grid market.
High energy-consuming air conditioners will be abandoned after a stricter energy efficiency rating system goes into effect in June.
China will build an "industrial system" and "consumption pattern" with low carbon emissions, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao at the parliament's annual session Friday.
Beijing will open eight local-level license plate registration centers in as many suburban districts and counties to cope with a sharp increase in car ownership.
China should build more large hydropower projects so it can live up to its promise to the international community.
China's first power plant using sugarcane leaves has been put into operation in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
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