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A Chinese environmental update

2010-05-24 00:00:00

May 21, 2010

A Chinese environmental update

Chinese scientists have won a review of a controversial dam proposed for Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake, according to China Daily. Conceding that the project might harm wildlife and the environment, Jiangxi provincial officials dropped a planned hydropower station in favour of a sluice gate to prevent lake water from flowing into the Yangtze river.

US commerce secretary Gary Locke and executives from 24 American clean-energy companies are in Beijing to push open doors for American businesses looking to cash in on China’s fast-growing renewables market, Reuters reported. Vice premier Li Keqiang met with the group and sounded a positive note.

China has agreed to spend up to US$23 billion to build oil refineries and other petroleum infrastructure in Nigeria, potentially strengthening its hand in the country as it seeks to secure six billion barrels of crude reserves, The Financial Times reported.

After difficult negotiations, Ecuador and China have agreed in principle on a US$1.7-billion line of credit to build a hydroelectric plant in Ecuador’s portion of the Amazon rain forest, Agence France-Presse quoted the ANDES news agency as saying.

The contribution of China’s forest ecosystem to environmental protection has been calculated as being worth 10 trillion yuan (US$1.5 trillion), or about one-third of the nation’s GDP, Global Times cited experts as reporting in the first such evaluation of Chinese ecosystem services.

After decades of over-felling in the Greater Hinggan mountains of north-eastern China – home to the country’s largest virgin forest -- timber output has been reduced by a third to help sustain the environment, according to China Daily.

Seawater pollution – particularly in the Pearl River estuary -- remains serious in the coastal waters off Guangdong province, where the marine environment continues to deteriorate, China Daily quoted the province’s annual monitoring report as saying.

A rat plague is threatening more than nine million hectares of grasslands in Inner Mongolia, Xinhua reported. This year’s persistent drought and grassland degradation have been blamed.

Workers are repainting hundreds of buildings in Guangzhou and topping them with roofs made of vinyl sheets molded to look like tiles on Spanish villas, The Associated Press said. The effort is part of a government-led campaign to clean up the city for the Asia Games, and many residents have criticised it as emphasising superficial appearances.

China is building a new centre in Dujiangyan city, Sichuan province, to train giant pandas born in captivity to become less dependent on humans and eventually to live in the wild, Xinhua reported.

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