Seventy percent of renewable resources in 55 cities are being collected for recycling, up from the 40 percent in 2006.
Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd and Peak International Trade (Tianjin) Co Ltd, have won a $81 million contract to provide portable solar power systems to UN peacekeeping missions.
China, the world's largest solar panel exporter, is likely to boast 10 gigawatts (gW) of solar power capacity by 2015 from the current 1 gW, doubling its existing target amid rising doubts about the safety of nuclear power.
China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group Co, the majority owner of the Daya Bay plant near Hong Kong, is conducting safety checks on its power stations, including those under construction, following the Japan nuclear crisis.
The central government will spend 100 billion yuan ($14.87 billion) over the next decade to support development of new energy and energy-saving vehicles in China, according to Miao Wei, head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region plans to spend 20 billion yuan ($3.04 billion) this year to boost its wind-power industry, including the establishment of the region's largest production base for wind-power turbines in Hami.
A fleet of 50 electric cabs started operation in the Chinese capital Beijing on Tuesday. Each of the electric cabs can run 140 kilometers on full battery and saves more than 30,000 yuan on fuel per year.
China's natural gas demand will rise 20 percent in 2011 to 130 billion cubic meters (cu m) and production will increase 16 percent to 110 billion cu m, according to a statement from the National Energy Administration (NEA) on Jan 28.
It will take at least a decade for China to start the large-scale industrial application of spent fuel reprocessing technology, which may be the solution to the supply shortage, the China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) said on Monday.
Wanxiang New Energy - set up by Wanxiang America, a Chicago-based Chinese company - is so far the only solar panel manufacturing plant in the Midwest. By 2015, the plant is expected to employ more than 200 workers.
China will resume levying a 10 percent purchase tax on vehicles with engine sizes of 1.6 liters or less beginning in 2011 as the country rebounds from the financial crisis and the economy has regained its rapid growth, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Tuesday.
Thanks to the ample sunshine and vastness of the desert, Ningxia has introduced PV equipment and built solar power stations to develop a whole PV industry chain.
Media reports last summer from China said the government plans to invest 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) to support the development of electric vehicles and advanced battery technology in the country.
China's bioethanol production will reach 10 million tons a year by 2020, resulting in a 10 percent drop in oil imports, according to COFCO group, China's largest grain trader.
Xie Zhenhua shakes hands with Geoffrey Kamese, program officer of National Association of Professional from Uganda, one of 16 representatives of international non-government organizations, at the ongoing UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, on Dec 10, 2010.
At the end of the first week of the ongoing UN climate change conference in the Mexican resort city of Cancun, it seems that the wrestling over the second period of the Kyoto Protocol is heating up.
Fifteen delegates of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts gather from 12 countries in Cancun to voice their concerns at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico.
A "Climate Great Wall" slogan is put up in the booth area of Cancun Climate Change Conference to call on awareness and actions on climate mitigations.
Global Alliance of Waste Pickers and Allies members from India, South Africa and Latin America hold a protest on Dec 1 at the Moon Palace, a major venue for the United Nations' climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico. They called for countries to recycle waste and respect waste pickers.
Visitors look at the UN Climate Wall, a photo exhibition, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, a resort city in Mexico, Dec 1, 2010. The talks, from Nov 29 to Dec 10, are being held to continue to search for solutions to the climate problem. About 25,000 participants from 194 countries gathered in Cancun for the conference.
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