Analysis
by Lila Buckley on October 18, 2007 For the average urban Chinese, the country’s severe environmental problems are no secret. And increasingly, recent college
graduates are looking to China’s
growing civil society sector to forge their career paths.
by Jianqiang Liu on June 19, 2007 China’s worsening environmental crisis is catalyzing a growing environmental movement in which the public is resisting special interest groups and opposing the government’s environmentally “unfriendly” behaviors.
by Lila Buckley on May 17, 2007 Last month, in a creative new approach to China’s environmental protection efforts, U.S. artists joined Chinese students and teachers in a group mural design and painting project. The experience brought together 88 children from 11 schools in Beijing, Hangzhou, Hebei, and Shanghai to design, plan, and paint a mural on the “Spirit of the Green Olympics” at the Beijing campus of the China National Children’s Center.
by Xiong Lei on April 26, 2007 In January, an official with the HIV/AIDS Prevention Committee of China's Gansu province announced a desire to find community partners to promote education on AIDS prevention. When asked why the group didn’t just work with local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the official explained that grassroots groups were hard to find...
by Hujun Li on March 1, 2007 “Climate negotiations are the most important international negotiations after the WTO.” At least this is what Ji Zou, a professor of environmental economics at the People’s University of China in Beijing, believes. In the summer of 2000, Zhou, then 39, received an official letter from China’s Office of the National Coordination Committee on Climate Change (ONCCCC) inviting him to join the country’s climate delegation.
by Yingling Liu on January 4, 2007 As China undergoes its historic drive toward urbanization, it is also witnessing the rapid accumulation of urban garbage. The nation’s 668 cities generate an estimated 150 million tons of rubbish each year, accounting for roughly one-third of the world total.
by Lila Buckley on December 14, 2006 China’s rapid economic development over the past two decades has occurred mostly along the eastern seaboard, leaving much of the country’s vast western territory badly impoverished and underserved. This unequal distribution of wealth is spurring the largest migration in human history as millions of poverty-stricken westerners head to cities to claim their share of the pie.
by Yun Feng on December 7, 2006 The government of Ganzi Prefecture in China’s Sichuan Province recently announced the cancellation of a local hydroelectric project, signaling the first success by Chinese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in jointly resisting a state-sponsored dam.
by Yongfeng Feng on October 24, 2006 In today’s China, hundreds of thousands of small and struggling villages are facing a growing dilemma between development and preservation. In this two-part series, journalist Yongfeng Feng describes how one minority village has grappled with this challenge.
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