China to scrap millions of cars in anti-pollution push
China plans to take more than 5 million aging vehicles off the roads this year in a bid to improve air quality, with 330,000 cars set to be decommissioned in...
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Pollution plagues China’s Baoding despite bid to clean up act
By David Stanway BAODING China (Reuters) - Seven years ago, the Chinese city of Baoding launched an ambitious "low-carbon" plan using renewables like solar power to light its streets and...
China to close more steel capacity, though still small fraction
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has raised its target to close outdated steel smelting capacity to 28.7 million tons in 2014, the industry ministry said on Thursday, as it tries to...
Tibetan Communist who urged reconciliation with Dalai Lama dies
BEIJING (Reuters) - Phuntso Wangye, a veteran Tibetan Communist leader who became an outspoken critic of Beijing's hardline policies towards the Himalayan region, died on Sunday, his son said. He...
Silencing China’s zombie steel mills no solution for smog
TANGSHAN, China (Reuters) - Reforming the bloated steel sector in northern China's Hebei province is a key part of Beijing's efforts to cut air pollution - but it is the...
Silencing China’s zombie steel mills no solution for smog
TANGSHAN, China (Reuters) - Reforming the bloated steel sector in northern China's Hebei province is a key part of Beijing's efforts to cut air pollution - but it is the...
Insight: For Chinese farmers, a rare welcome in Russia’s Far East
USSURIYSK, Russia (Reuters) - Fourteen years ago, Chinese businessman Li Demin was asked to help bail out a struggling pig farm in the Russian trading city of Ussuriysk, close to...
Analysis: China needs Western help for nuclear export ambitions
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's investment in Britain's 16 billion pound Hinkley Point project is its first foray into Europe's nuclear power market and a marker of its global ambitions, but...
China needs Western help for nuclear export ambitions
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's investment in Britain's 16 billion pound Hinkley Point project is its first foray into Europe's nuclear power market and a marker of its global ambitions, but...
China cuts gas supply to industry as shortages hit
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top natural gas producers have begun to cut supplies to industrial consumers in a bid to make sure that homes and users of transport are not...