China's on-grid solar power capacity will rise 200 percent year-on-year to 10 gW by the end of this year, the National Energy Administration said.
China's ministries of public security and environmental protection have vowed closer cooperation in dealing with environment-related crimes and punishing wrongdoers.
Tianjin Eco-City, the best known eco-city project in China, now has about 6,000 residents five years after its construction.
China Association of Circular Economy (CACE) was set up Saturday to promote the growth of circular economy.
China is predicted to become the world's second-largest carbon emission trading market, covering 700 million tons of carbon emissions.
Beijing launched carbon emissions trading on Thursday, making it China's third market for compulsory carbon trading.
Natural gas and renewable energy are poised for boom times in China, and they'll be key factors in the development of the nation's economy.
Hebei province will set limits on the amount of allowed industrial air pollution and spend 291 million yuan ($47.7 million) to build a real-time digital monitoring system in the coming year.
Guangdong is to launch a carbon permits market next month that will be the world's second biggest after the European Union.
The Anguo government in Hebei province denied on Tuesday that every resident has been charged an extra 100 yuan ($16) to help control air pollution.
The first carbon permits in Shanghai traded at 27 yuan on Tuesday, as the city launched China's second such trading platform to cut emissions.
China's wood-based panel industry is helping protect forests and woods, which will eventually lead to reduced carbon dioxide emission worldwide, experts say.
Beijing will start monitor ing the effect of smog on residents' health this week, said the city's health bureau in its Sina micro blog account on Monday.
Beijing has been long plagued by sandstorms that hit the city every spring, prompting many to wear face masks amid the red and brown gloom.
Head of the Chinese delegation to the UN climate change conference Wednesday urged developed nations to fulfill funding for fighting climate change.
At the National Stadium of Poland in Warsaw, more than 190 countries have been showcasing their plans to protect our polluted and warming planet.
The world's largest production facility to make cellulosic bioethanol will be built in China next year, the company in charge of the project has said.
Enterprises in suburban Beijing and nearby areas are still illegally discharging airborne pollutants on a large scale, an investigation has found.
Excessive emission of pollutants from factories, dust pollution and straw burning may have caused smoggy days in October in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province.
Official inspections in key air pollution areas have revealed various problems including excessive industrial emissions, inadequate waste processing and severe pollution on the land.
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