Industrial News
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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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Amid the turmoil in Libya, China has evacuated 12,000 -- about one third -- of its citizens living in the oil-rich nation, Reuters cited official media as saying. The Chinese government has encouraged companies to seek business across the developing world, and 75 Chinese firms have operations in Libya, according to the commerce ministry. A team of...
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Apple Inc says audits at 127 production facilities have found labour, safety and other abuses by its suppliers in 2010, Canadian Press reported. In its annual supplier responsibility report, Apple outlines steps taken on abuses such as under-aged workers, involuntary or debt-bonded labour and unsafe handling of dangerous chemicals. Local media cited the “high...
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation warned that severe drought was threatening China’s wheat crop and resulting in shortages of drinking water for people and livestock, The New York Times said. Any move by China, which has essentially been self-sufficient in grain for decades, to import large quantities of food could drive international prices...
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China is ready to start building a series of controversial hydropower plants on the Nu River in Yunnan province, Reuters said, citing state media. Chinese radio quoted a senior energy official as expressing hope that the undammed Nu (or Salween) can be developed under the country’s next five-year plan. A relief and assistance programme for eight...
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