Japan’s recent disaster has spurred Chinese regulators to call on the central government for greater supervision amidst China’ rapidly-growing nuclear power i

China’s nuclear industry’s free ride may soon be coming to an end. While nuclear power represents a mere fraction of China’s overall energy use—just over on

The devastation caused by the disastrous 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan and the potential risks from radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant o

In Beijing’s cavernous Great Hall of the People, top leaders and political delegates settled on an ambitious economic course for China, now the world’s second

Climate change presents the world with massive and potentially devastating challenges. As the world’s two leading economic powerhouses, China and the United St

Longstanding Chinese ideals, which seek balance between man and nature, could help humans find a better way of living, writes Pan Yue, China’s vice minister fo

Struck by a spate of fatal landslides, Shaanxi plans to relocate 2.4 million people to safer ground. But will this ambitious programme work? Meng Dengke reports

An ancient Chinese legend tells how Emperor Yu the Great, more than four thousand years ago, tamed massive floods by uniting tribal leaders and spurring them to

If one word could sum up China’s environmental events of the Year of the Tiger, it would be “leak”. At the beginning of 2010, a diesel leak from the Weinan b

The United States and China have cooperated with each other on clean technology for years. The two powers jointly conduct low-carbon research and development, t