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More than 100 million Chinese farmers will move to cities by 2020, posing huge challenges for urban planners and social welfare systems, Agence France-Presse cited a new government report as forecasting. The document said China’s urban population would exceed 800 million people by 2020, up from 666 million in 2010, as more rural Chinese sought better...
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Myanmar’s decision to suspend the Chinese-backed Myitsone dam is straining relations between the countries, according to Reuters, but neither is likely to risk lasting damage. China is pressing for an "appropriate solution" to the shelving of the dam, a decision welcomed by critics who had warned of environmental damage and forced relocation...
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Severn Trent Services (STS) has been awarded a contract to provide wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) Zhang Gui Zhuang (ZGZ) with a deep bed denitrification system in Tianjin, China. Increasing the quality of wastewater treament, sludge processing and water reuse will be a core part of the project, which is set to create the largest deep bed denitrification...
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The provincial government of Shandong in China will provide CNY20.6bn ($3.2bn) for the construction of the eastern route of the South-North Water Diversion (SNWD) project over the next two years.
The money will be used to build 11 water projects along or near the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which passes Shandong.
The project consists of three routes -...
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With its fast-expanding carbon footprint, China is moving into the emissions ranks of developed-world countries, The Daily Telegraph said. The country’s per-capita emissions could exceed Britain’s by the end of 2012 and those of the United States by 2017, according to a UN-sponsored report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. ...
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Production at a solar-panel factory in China was suspended after violent protests by residents of Haining, Zhejiang province, who blame the Zhejiang JinkoSolar Company plant for fouling the air and water, The New York Times reported. The local people cited toxic smokestack emissions and factory wastewater that they say has killed a large number of fish. Government...
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Over 17 Million people in Beijing and 100 000 people work on the front line of the waste and recycling industry in the city. Rubbish and Recycling is big business in China and its estimated that the Waste Treatment and Recycling Industry is worth over €14 billion Dollars in China. At the moment the collection of recyclable waste is generally a family...
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China’s State Oceanic Administration ordered a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips to halt all operations at the Penglai 19-3 oilfield in Bohai Bay, Reuters reported, saying the company has failed to seal a leak that has lasted more than two months. Citing negligence, the authorities ordered the company to stop injection, drilling and production...
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Off north-east China, the massive Bohai Bay oil spill may be worse than first thought, according to the US energy giant ConocoPhillips, Agence France-Presse reported. Chinese officials have ordered ConocoPhillips to clean up the sea bed by August 6, but the company said it had discovered an unknown quantity of “additional oil-based drilling mud...
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Two lead-emitting companies in Shanghai were ordered to suspend production after 25 children were diagnosed with excessive lead levels in their blood, Caixun.com said. The two companies in the Pudong Kangqiao Industrial Zone were identified as Shanghai Johnson Controls International Battery and Shanghai Xinming Auto Accessories. A nationwide safety...
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