Hi everyone, I’m Dr.Yao from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). My team are now in charge of the first 1 MWe solar thermal power plant “DAHAN” in China. It’s under construction at the foot of The Great Wall nearby Beijing and can be regarded as the milestone in solar thermal power development in China. You [...]

At a recent conference in Guilin, Chen Lui said that The Chinese Water Resources Ministry plans to reduce consumption per unit of gross domestic product 60 percent by 2020. the covereage of the speech was brief to say the least (someone needs to start taking better notes), and no “solutions” were mentioned, but from the [...]

Last year, I watched perhaps one of the more interesting Poptech videos. It was of Dan Glibert, a Harvard professor in psychology, on why we as humans have failed to respond in any meaningful way in the face of  Global Warming. At the time, I wrote a review for it on Crossroads that elicited some [...]

Historically degraded from industrial pollution, China’s air quality levels have also seen a marked reduction in quality due to the addition to millions of new cars and trucks. It is a problem that Beijing very publicly addressed during the Olympics by removing cars from the road and increasing the number of natural gas buses, and [...]

It began with a run up of wind stocks (perhaps aided by some hot air), and more recently the discussion has been on the fact that the largest wind farms in the world are now being planted in China. BOOMING WIND POWER MARKET AND INDUSTRY IN CHINA by Shi Pengfei of the Chinese Wind Energy [...]

6 months ago I saw perhaps one of the most interesting Poptech presentations on the role of citizens in “greening” the economy. Van Jones Discussing his four quadrant theory on how people view global warming differently, and that people at the low end of the income band should be given the opportunity to participate in [...]

Perhaps the thing that amazes me the most about China’s recent announcement that China would send air force freighters to make rain in drought stricken areas, is simply that this is actually what we have come to when our climate changes: Xu Yonghe, Hubei Weather Modification Office’s chief engineer, was equipping the An-26 freighter with [...]

I just wanted to write a quick note to say how much I love Global warming.  Honestly, this has been the most comfortable winter in China, and we should all site back in awe of this achievement. Of course, with the warmest weather in a century, is also coming drought, but hey.  I am not [...]

Rethinking Urban-rural Interactions in China’s Agricultural Development: Beyond the Urban Bias? Friday 3 – Sunday 5 April 2009 Organiser: Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds and National Institute of Chinese Studies, White Rose East Asian Centre, UK Hosted at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Conference theme China has witnessed remarkable economic growth, [...]