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May 07, 2010 A Chinese environmental update

2010-06-08 00:00:00

May 07, 2010

A Chinese environmental update

Premier Wen Jiabao told Chinese governments at all levels to work with an “iron hand” to eliminate inefficient enterprises, Xinhua said. Wen laid out new targets for shutting down the outdated facilities this year to help China meet its aim of reducing energy intensity.

China will use a weekend meeting on climate change to demonstrate its sincerity in reducing carbon emissions, according to a top policy adviser. Zheng Xinli told China Daily that the gathering also will serve to strengthen ongoing UN climate-change talks.

China’s urgent demand for power from oil and coal has led to the largest six-month increase in the tonnage of human-generated greenhouse gases ever by a single country, according to The New York Times.

As demand for renewable energy rises, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group plans to build an 800-megawatt wind farm in Yuxi city, Yunnan province, Bloomberg News reported.

An afforestation project in Shandong province is being supported by a US$60 million loan approved by the World Bank, Xinhua said. In an effort to reduce soil and water erosion and protect agricultural land, the project is designed to re-vegetate degraded areas on hillsides and in saline coastal areas.

Investigations made by 34 Chinese environmental groups indicate that suppliers of some global information-technology companies are discharging heavy-metal pollutants in China, according to China CSR. Manufacturing of batteries and printed circuit boards is a chief source of such pollution.

Blue jeans are partly to blame for pollution of the Pearl River, United Press International reported. The typical dyeing process involves the release of tonnes of waste water -- a mixture of dye, bleach and detergent.

China is stepping up its drive to acquire African mineral wealth, United Press International said. For example, it is offering impoverished but mineral-rich Guinea US$1.5 billion for a 47% stake in the world’s largest unmined reserves of iron ore.

Frustrated by their inability to get compensation in China, four parents whose children were poisoned in the country’s 2008 tainted milk scandal took their legal cases to Hong Kong, according to the Associated Press. Some 300,000 children were sickened by dairy products contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine.

Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa is keen on investing in Israeli technology companies specialising in oil sands and water technologies, Reuters said, citing Israel’s finance ministry. Li is east Asia’s richest man and his companies reportedly make up about 15% of the Hong Kong stock market’s total capitalisation.

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