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China's environmental problems are grim, admits ministry report
2013-06-07 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China's environmental situation has been described as "grim" in an annual update on the country's environment released this week. The update by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection said that overall pollution problems were serious last year and reporting on the update, the state-controlled newspaper China Daily said there has been a "marked deterioration in China's air, water and land quality". The 2012 Environmental Conditions Report addressed water and air pollution, the two types...
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China's 'Second Tier' Cities: That's Where the Money Is
2013-06-07 10:13:59| Apparel - Topix.net
Airports can tell you much about the consumer development of a country. Having just landed in Shanghai on route to Chengdu, a second-tier city in the Southwest, where TIME's sister publication is holding its Global Forum, I was struck by two things.
FRANCE/CHINA: Bordeaux producers voice fears over China's EU wine threat
2013-06-05 16:36:22| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
China's anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probe of European wine could leave some Bordeaux producers facing "near-bankruptcy", it has been claimed.
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China's mega water diversion project begins testing
2013-06-05 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When it is completed, it will be one of the world's biggest feats of engineering. China's South-North Water Diversion Project, initially a vision of Mao's, will take water from the south of the country to the arid northern region, including the capital Beijing, which suffers from water shortages. The ambitious project has been under construction since 2002 and it is expected to take almost 50 years for all sections to be complete. It aims to pump almost 45 billion cubic metres of water a year...
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Chinas plastic-bag ban turns five years old
2013-06-04 23:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: What do you give a plastic-bag ban for its fifth birthday? In the case of China, which over the weekend celebrated five years of restrictions on plastic shopping bags, officials are showering their ban with accolades and crediting it with keeping tens of billions of bags out of landfills and the environment. The rules, which took effect on June 1, 2008, ban the manufacture or use of the thinnest types of plastic bags. They also prohibit supermarkets, department stores, and grocery stores from...
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