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China’s population is rapidly becoming older and more urban, the first 2010 census data indicate. Some 49.7% of the country’s 1.34 billion people now live in cities, The Guardian said. As a proportion of the population, the number of people over age 60 rose by three percentage points to 13.3% since 2000, while those under 14 declined by...
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Gradually rising sea levels due to climate change have contributed to damage along China’s coast, Reuters reported, citing Chinese media. Xinhua quoted the State Oceanic Administration as saying the cumulative effect could “aggravate storm tides, coastal erosion, seawater invasion and other disasters”. An official...
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To secure a vital source of mineral resources, China is leasing huge land areas in Australia, The Guardian reported. No longer satisfied with buying iron ore and coal from Australian companies, China is developing its own operations. The boom in the energy-intensive sector sits uneasily, however, with Australian government...
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China has notified Japan of its concern over the release into the Pacific Ocean of radioactive water from the crippled nuclear plant at Fukushima, the Associated Press reported. A Chinese foreign ministry statement said China hoped that Japan would take concrete measures to protect the marine environment. Trace levels of radioactive...
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“Extremely low” levels of radiation from Japan’s crippled Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant have spread to most Chinese provinces but remain far too low to be a health risk, Agence France-Presse quoted China’s government as saying. The government banned imports of several food products from Japan and stepped up radiation checks at airports,...
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Nuclear power remains a safer and cleaner choice for China than coal, Reuters quoted the chairman of the China National Nuclear Corporation’s science and technology committee as saying. Pan Ziqiang asserted: “Everybody knows atmospheric pollution from coal is very serious ... Nuclear basically has no harmful pollutants and greenhouse-gas emissions...
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China may see its carbon-dioxide emissions peak around 2030 as the country taps cleaner sources of energy, a researcher at a think tank run by China’s top economic planner said, Bloomberg reported. Jiang Kejun of the National Development and Reform Commission stated that the emissions of the world’s biggest greenhouse-gas polluter could reach...
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A Chinese environmental update
High-ranking regional officials have confirmed for the first time that they are mulling an adjustment to China's one-child policy, according to China Daily. Select regions are believed to be preparing for trials that would allow an urban couple to have a second child if either the husband or wife has no brothers or sisters....
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China will impose a hard limit on total energy use, capping consumption from all sources at the equivalent of four billion tonnes of coal by 2015, according to the recently retired energy chief Zhang Guobao. Zhang told Xinhua that the energy cap would be a mandatory ceiling in China’s five-year plan for 2011 to 2015, which the National People’s...
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