Industrial News
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The Croatian-Chinese business forum was held in Zagreb reported Croatian radio television. Over 30 Croatian and 12 Chinese businesses and institutes held meetings, with the Chinese delegation especially interested in business cooperation and investment opportunities in energy and transport.
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In what is being seen as a blow – for now -- to US solar panel manufacturers and a boost for shares in their Chinese rival companies, the US government imposed unexpectedly low duties on imports from China, Reuters reported. Still, Chinese industry representatives criticised the move to introduce rates of 2.9% to 4.73% –...
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In a new study looking ahead to mid-century, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said no country will be spared from worsening air pollution – and that, globally, most of the projected premature deaths linked to airborne particulate matter will occur in China and India. Pollution levels in some cities already far exceed UN safety...
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A year on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, Chinese officials said Beijing will soon resume the approval and construction of nuclear power plants, Chinanews said. Permission to begin building about 10 new plants – suspended after the Fukushima accident – is expected now that a comprehensive plan on nuclear safety control has been...
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Mainly because of China’s economic boom, developing countries appear to have met a key United Nations millennium development goal – to halve extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries by 2015 – Reuters reported the World Bank as saying. China’s rapid economic rise has helped to lift many of its people out of poverty....
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China has established a renewable energy policy facility as part of the country’s efforts to realise sustainable growth, Xinhua reported. Along with research and analysis, the China National Renewable Energy Centre is to help the authorities create a “developmental roadmap” for solar photovoltaic and wind power, biofuels and other renewable...
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A storm of criticism in China over share-listing plans by a company that sells tonics made with bear bile is highlighting the country’s changing attitudes toward the environment and wildlife, according to the Associated Press. As Guizhentang, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) producer, awaits approval of an initial public offering, opponents of...
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Toray Industries has secured an order to provide reverse osmosis (RO) membrane elements to the Tuaspring desalination plant in Singapore.
Toray is scheduled to provide its RO membrane elements to the project this year, 2012. Under the 25-year contract, Tuaspring, a subsidiary of Singapore-based Hyflux, has agreed to oversee the design, build and ...
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China: Having recently struck a deal with Insurance Auto Auctions Inc. (IAA) of the USA, Chen Jia has been named as the first company ever to receive recycling permits from the Chinese government to import salvage vehicles. Until recently, Chinese law prohibited salvage vehicle imports into mainland China from the USA but this particular project has...
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Chinese Government The Chinese Government is planning to invest CNY1.8bn ($285.71m) over the next three years to monitor water pollution in the nation.
There are currently a limited number of monitoring stations, and an incomplete series of elements that are monitored in the country.
Water resources vice minister Hu Siyi told reporters in the area...
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