Analysis
by Zijun Li on July 27, 2006 China’s arable land, which feeds 22 percent of the world’s population, is facing grim pollution and degradation, warns Zhou Xiansheng, director of the State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA).
by Lila Buckley on July 18, 2006 An hour’s drive north of Beijing lies the county of Miyun, a semi-mountainous agricultural suburb that is home to the Miyun Reservoir, the single-largest water source for China’s burgeoning capital city. Although the local government has invested billions of dollars in tree planting and other ecological protection initiatives and imposed a ban on chemical fertilizers in the region, dangers such as erosion, overgrazing, and pollution continue to threaten the livelihoods of local residents.
by Yingling Liu on June 20, 2006 It is not sensational to predict that if China ever moves its capital city, this will be due largely to water shortages. The current capital, Beijing, is exuding dryness from every pore, particularly during the spring and fall when it is plagued by inland sandstorms and strong winds.
by Lila Buckley on March 2, 2006 BEIJING—In Chinese development theory, the saying goes that if you build a road, the wealth will follow. That is precisely what government officials have promised unemployed fish farmer Yi Zhuzhi once the new super highway connecting his remote village to larger cities in Yunnan province and neighboring Burma is completed. But Yi is skeptical that this will solve any "real dilemmas" he and other villagers face.
by Lila Buckley on February 28, 2006 BEIJING—A new monthly newsletter, Organic Trends, was recently launched in Beijing with the aim of promoting "environmentally friendly and healthy food production and processing" nationwide.
by Zijun Li on February 23, 2006 Three months after a chemical plant explosion contaminated northeastern China's Songhua River, a second large spill occurred on the upper reaches of the Yuexi River in southeastern Sichuan province, releasing toxins into a 100-kilometer stretch near the city of Yibin on February 14 and disrupting the water supply of some 20,000 people.
by Yingling Liu on February 2, 2006 Chinese scientists believe that breeding new drought-tolerant crop varieties is key to easing the country's chronic water scarcity, according to Xinhua News Agency.
by Yingling Liu on October 19, 2005 As temperatures and human pressures have increased in China’s mountainous west over the past decade, the headwaters of two major river arteries, the Yellow and the Yangtze, are drying up at an alarming rate. The Chinese government has poured in money and other resources in an attempt to reverse or mitigate this trend, but observers remain pessimistic about finding a long-term cure.
by Yingling Liu on September 22, 2005 In late August, legislators in Beijing met to discuss China’s first-ever comprehensive law on animal husbandry, pushing meat safety to the top of the national agenda at a time when avian flu and other livestock-related diseases are ravaging parts of Asia. The bill, initially proposed in 2001, underwent legislative review at the 17 th meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), convened August 23-28.
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