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Living in China: Plenty of GPS potties, to keep Shanghai’s World Expo site clean
Next year's Shanghai World Expo will feature more than 200 of the world's most innovative pavilions filled with the most advanced technology and inspiring exhibits about modern urban life. But piles of rubbish, dirty surfaces and lack of potties would make a joke of the theme, "Better City, Better Life." [...]
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China, Technology & the Environment: Emissions cut target “may hurt developing countries’ development”
The emissions cut target proposed by developed countries is "unfair" to developing countries, a Chinese expert said recently: Pan Jiahua, executive director of the research centre for sustainable development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, made the statement in an interview with Xinhua at the Global Economic Symposium (GES 2009) held in Ploen Castle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany [...]
Posted in China, economics, information technology, trends Also tagged Carbon finance, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Climate change, Developed Nations, environment, Environmental policy, Germany, Greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Industrialization, Infrastructure, Kyoto Protocol, Pan Jiahua, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development, Xinhua 1 Comment
Architecture & Urban Planning in China: urbanization to create massive infrastructure investment
Some 300 million Chinese now living in rural areas -- the equivalent of the entire population of the United States -- will move into cities in the coming 15 to 20 years, said a senior Chinese official recently [...]
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Watch Paul Romer talk about a radical idea: “Charter Cities”, at TED
How can a struggling country break out of poverty if it's trapped in a system of bad rules? Economist Paul Romer unveils a bold idea: "charter cities," city-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of nations [...]
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Living in China: urban population exceeds 600 milion with rural income’s yawning gap
China's urban population surged to 607 million with an urbanization rate of 45.7 percent at the end of 2008, a social researcher revealed recently [...]
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Living in China: 60% of Chinese will live in cities in 20 years
Huang Wenqing grew up in a remote village in China's Anhui province, where his family were pig farmers. Today he is a team manager in a car components factory in the suburbs of Beijing. Huang, 32, is part of a huge wave of rural workers streaming into China's cities in search of better opportunities [...]
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Living in China: Inflation slows urban Chinese income growth
Urban Chinese saw their disposable income expand 3.4 percent in the first quarter of 2008, the lowest increase for the same period since 1997. The per-capita disposable income of the country's urban households rose 11.5 percent year on year in the first three months to 4,386 yuan (about US$ 626.6). However, after counting in inflation, the growth slowed to 3.4 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on recently...
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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 [...]
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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: the top 10 fast-developing cities in 2009