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by Yingling Liu on June 22, 2006 China’s Meteorological Administration set up a center on June 14 to assess the country’s vast wind and solar energy resources through advanced methods. This will be of particular benefit to China’s robust wind power industry, providing developers with more accurate and integrated data.
by Zijun Li on June 15, 2006 At a Beijing conference last week, several leading solar energy companies projected that the global shortage in silicon, the material used in most of the world’s solar cells, will ease by 2008 as production capacity expands.
by Yingling Liu on June 13, 2006 China’s government will enact new fiscal policies to encourage the development of biomass energy, according to a CCTV report. Biomass energy is energy derived from plant matter such as trees, agricultural crops, and a range of organic wastes and residues.
by Zijun Li on June 6, 2006 With the arrival of the 2006 flood season, high waters have begun threatening low-lying areas in southern China. Meanwhile, the country’s north continues to suffer from a severe drought. This “northern drought, southern flood” pattern has become a recurring climatic trend in China, and has already affected tens of millions of people nationwide this year.
by Zijun Li on May 23, 2006 As of late April, northern China had encountered eight severe sandstorms this year alone, worsening the air quality in half the region’s cities.
by Yingling Liu on April 27, 2006 China will replace its use of grain as the main feedstock for ethanol production with more economical plant material, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top policy planner, said at an April 19 seminar in Shanghai on bioresources.
by Yingling Liu on April 21, 2006 A new round of wind power concession projects opened for bidding on April 10, according to China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
by Yingling Liu on April 6, 2006 China Petroleum Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), Asia's biggest oil refiner, announced on April 3 that it has discovered China's largest and richest "marine facies" gas field thus far, in western Sichuan Province.
by Yingling Liu on March 28, 2006 On March 26, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) inaugurated the new International Center for the Promotion and Transfer of Solar Energy Technology, based in Lanzhou, the capital of China's Northwest Gansu Province.
by Zijun Li on February 7, 2006 China's power shortage eased considerably in 2005, and the situation will continue to improve in 2006, according to a recent report by the Development Research Center of the State Council, China's parliament.
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