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ICIS
March 23, 2018
He heads the newly approved Ministry of Ecological Environment, which was transformed from the former Ministry of Environmental Protection, it said. The new ministry will absorb duties held by other authorities that relate to river, marine and soil pollution as well as climate change, according to China DailyÃâà...
ScienceAlert
March 23, 2018
As part of the changes, the government has announced a new ministry of ecological environment, which will keep tabs on pollution and enforce environmental protection laws, and a new conservation agency, which will help protect endangered species in China. The new ministries will hopefully helpÃâà...
Nature.com
March 21, 2018
Other agency changes include expanding the body that oversees the intellectual-property office, creating a new ministry of ecological environment to monitor pollution and enforce environmental-protection laws, and forming a new conservation agency to help protect endangered species, such as theÃâà...
Chemical & Engineering News
March 20, 2018
As part of its largest government reshuffling since 1998, China has increased the power of its environment ministry. The change takes place as air quality improves in northern China ... The Chinese government will soon consist of 26 ministries, down from 34. The current minister of environmental protection,Ãâà...
ecns
March 12, 2018
To attract more direct investment, Commerce Minister Zhong said China will further expand market access for foreign investment and treat foreign companies the same as domestic ones to create an even more open business environment. He said the ministry will figure out more measures to enhanceÃâà...
EP Magazine
March 12, 2018
The Bank of China has pledged at least 10 billion yuan, or $1.5 billion, to create an enormous panda conservation park in the Sichuan province, the forestry ministry announced March 8. The Sichuan branch of the bank signed an agreement with the provincial government to finance the construction of theÃâà...
New York Times
March 12, 2018
The statement broke from the country's longstanding policy of putting economic growth over environment, and many wondered whether China would really ... For example, the ministry of environmental protection released a 143-page “battle plan” last summer that included removing the coal boilers manyÃâà...
GBTIMES
March 10, 2018
China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has said heavy air pollution will sweep across northern China in March. .... conducted by China Youth Daily, the country's management of chronic air pollution is the most important issue for Chinese born after 2000, with nearly a third of respondents ranking it asÃâà...
Voice of America
March 6, 2018
In an article on its website, China's Defense Ministry cited Chen Zhou, a researcher at the Academy of Military Science, as saying the spending increase was "reasonable" and "sustainable" and that there were no "hidden military funds." Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui said on Sunday thatÃâà...
CNBC
March 6, 2018
The world's second-largest economy is facing relatively large external pressure in attracting foreign direct investments (FDI) this year due to uncertainties in the global investment environment, according to the commerce ministry. FDI into China in January only rose 0.3 percent from a year earlier afterÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 4, 2018
“No one trusts the Chinese,” said Maj. Gen. Le Van Cuong, the former director of the Institute of Strategic Studies at Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security. “But everyone needs their money.” In 2016, an international tribunal ruled overwhelmingly in favor of the Philippines in a case that questioned China'sÃâà...
The Australian
March 4, 2018
The Energy Supervision Commission is to be merged with the Environmental Protection Ministry, and the Land Resource and Construction ministries will ... “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” would be written into China's constitution, joining Mao Zedong Thought.
War on the Rocks
March 1, 2018
Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment in “Ministry of Truth,” a special series on state-sponsored influence operations. Catch up ... Although much attention has focused on Beijing's efforts to fund pro-China propaganda, the incident in Kuala Lumpur highlights that some of the more troubling activities theÃâà...
BBC News
February 23, 2018
Fishing continued at the site of a massive oil spill in the East China Sea for days after the incident, satellite images obtained by the BBC suggest. Most of the fishing vessels in the affected region were identified as Chinese. There have been major concerns over possible contamination in seafood andÃâà...
Sierra Magazine
February 3, 2018
In the official notice, China's Ministry of Environment Protection said, “We found that large amounts of dirty wastes or even hazardous wastes are ... to meet China's new standards, but after November 2017, our plastic bales have been redirected to Southeast Asia,” said Reed, who hopes that the ChineseÃâà...
The Diplomat
December 31, 1999
The effectiveness of this new ministry will inform not only China's environmental future, but also its stability, its socioeconomic ambitions, and global efforts ... At the March 5 release of the 2018 Government Work Plan, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called for closing inefficient coal and steel plants, increasingÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
In court documents, the national environmental management authority, a semiautonomous agency within the Environment Ministry that reviews the impact of development ... Power China, the Chinese multinational in line to build the Lamu plant, has also constructed coal plants in Indonesia and Pakistan.
GBTIMES
December 31, 1999
"This is China's first tax clearly designed for environmental protection, which will help establish a 'green' financial and taxation system and promote pollution control and the treatment of pollutants," according to Wang Jinnan, head of the Chinese Academy For Environmental Planning at the Ministry ofÃâà...
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