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China, Technology and the Environment: Chinese National Energy Commission is established
China has established the National Energy Commission for better coordination in formulating energy strategy and development planning, said an announcement released by the General Office of the Chinese State Council recently [...]
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China, Technology and the Environment: Electricity bills to jump for Chinese industries
China announced a 5.7 percent increase in electricity prices for businesses and industries and said it will adjust residential tariffs early next year through a new pricing mechanism to promote energy savings [...]
Posted in China, economics, trends Also tagged analyst, Automobile, Automobile Industry, Bank of China, Cao Changqing, cement, China National Radio, CNY, electric power, energy , savings, Industry of China, inflation, International trade, Luo Weiwei, National Development and Reform Commission, Peng Jizhong, renewable energy, Shanghai, Shanghai Daily, steel, Tariff, United States, Wind power 3 Comments
Watch Amy Smith’s “Simple designs that could save millions of childrens’ lives” talk at TED
Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. M.I.T. engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal.
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China, Technology and the Environment: Power consumption up in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong
In the first half of June/2009, China's average daily power generation capacity was 9.764 billion kilowatt-hours, down 0.17 percent year-on-year, according to statistics from the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC). In May, the nation's average daily power generation capacity dropped around 3.5 percent year-on-year [...]
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China, Technology and the Environment: first 10 million-kw-level wind power station to be built in mid-July 2009
Workers would begin construction on China's first 10 million-kw-level wind power station in mid-July in the far northwestern city of Jiuquan, Gansu Province, a local official said recently [...]
Posted in China, innovation Also tagged energy, energy conservation, environment, Gansu, Jiuquan, local official, municipal government, natural gas, oil, Provinces of China, Qinghai, railway, renewable energy, sustainability, sustainable, Three Gorges Dam, Wind power, Wu Shengxue 1 Comment
107 dead, $15.4 billion lost due to snow in China
The blizzards that struck southern China in the past month have killed at least 107 people and left eight missing, as of February 12/2007, reported a senior Chinese official recently. The disaster has also caused direct economic losses of about 111 billion yuan ($15.4 billion), Civil Affairs Minister Li Xueju said: 21 provincial-level areas had been affected, with Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang and Sichuan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region the worst hit [...]
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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.
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Information Technology Salaries in the Rise in Shanghai
People working in the information technology industry earned more than employees in all other industries on average last year, according to the Shanghai Statistics Bureau. The wage gap between different sectors widened last year. The average wage in the IT sector was 3.55 times of the average salary for those in the service sector, the lowest paid group of workers, while in 2000, the average wage in the highest sector was 3.24 times that of the lowest [...]
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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 [...]
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China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: energy security pushes China into Wind Power