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• 02.04.08 Disaster prevails as relief effort beefed up
  
  "Weather conditions in southern China will remain severe and relief work difficult, Chinese leaders warned yesterday as the country battles with the worst snowfalls in decades. The warning came after a meeting chaired by Chinese President Hu Jintao to study the relief effort. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has just concluded his second visit in a week to central Hunan Province, the region worst hit."  read on
  
  posted in transportation, population, hunan, disaster, living, energy, economics, natural resources, china, agriculture, environment
• 02.02.08 Millions stranded by the snow in holiday havoc
  
  "Heavy white storms staged a comeback late yesterday as China's transport network remained crippled by the heaviest snowfall in five decades. Millions of people trying to head home for the Spring Festival are stranded. The big freeze has killed dozens of people, impacted on the lives of at least 80 million others and caused economic losses estimated at more than 53.8 billion yuan (US$7.5 billion)..."  read on
  
  posted in travelling, living, transportation, changsha, hunan, beijing, china, media, economics, wealth, natural resources, environment
• 11.18.07 China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: Part II
  
  "An energy structure with a low utilization rate, and an economic growth mode with serious, hazardous emissions have posed stark challenges for the sustained growth of Chinese economic society. Faced with such a grave situation in energy saving and emission reduction, more than 6,000 science, technology workers, as well as scientist-turned-entrepreneurs on met recently to discuss issues such as energy saving and environmental protection. Among them were more than 100 members from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), the highest palaces for scientific research achievements and engineering progress..."  read on
  
  posted in innovation, energy, industry, architecture, china, trends, economics, socialism, natural resources, environment
• 11.05.06 China: Technology, Innovation and the Environment
  
  "Since the beginning of its economical opening -- when the first 5-year plans were devised in 1979 -- China has being growing at an incredible speed, with its GNP numbers jumping from 44 billion dollars to 1.6 trillion dollars in just 20 years. Such growth has pushed the Chinese manufacturing industry into devouring huge amounts of natural resources in a alarming way: in 2004, China -- the 8th largest economy in GNP scale -- consumed 8% of all the oil, 31% of all the coal, 10% of all the electricity, 30% of all ore, 30% of all steel, 19% of all aluminum, 20% of all the copper and 40% of all cement produced in the world."  read on
  
  posted in living, energy, industry, health, tourism, shanghai, innovation, socialism, economics, natural resources, information technology, china, environment

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