Analysis
by Lila Buckley on September 18, 2007 One of the major barriers to the growth of civil society in China is the lack of funding to support a wide diversity of organizations and projects.
by Jiaquan Wang on March 27, 2007 Seemingly a winner in the global balance of trade, China is in fact struggling against an undercurrent of imported waste. The country, already laden with domestic pollution, is rapidly becoming the planet’s largest garbage dump, facing a huge influx of foreign garbage.
by Yun Feng on December 21, 2006 In Dongguan City in China’s southern Guangdong Province, you can buy a computer laptop for US$100. If you’ve got $200 in your wallet, you can acquire a second large machine, like a copier or fax. Yet even though products “made in China” are known for their low prices, the cheapest high-tech commodities here aren’t locally made. They actually come from the United States, Europe, and Japan, and are imported electronic waste, or “e-waste.”
by Yongfeng Feng on November 16, 2006 Talking just about environmental protection or culture, and not economic realities, will not launch local communities into development. Environmentalists are often accused of being “immoral”—hearing only the desperate cries of ecosystems and not seeing people’s daily struggles against poverty.
by Yongfeng Feng on November 14, 2006 In early September, Xiaoyi Liao, the president of Global Village Environmental Education Center in Beijing, went on a 20-day trip around southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Originally, she had hoped simply to enjoy the peace of the mountains while attending a local conference on village tourism development. But, she says, the situation in Guizhou “woke her up” to the need to take action.
by Jianqiang Liu on September 28, 2006 The Chinese government released its first “green” gross domestic product (GDP) report earlier this month, presenting an alternative to the nation’s current economic development path.
by Lila Buckley on September 5, 2006 Laojun Mountain has long been considered sacred to the Chinese minority groups who call it home. Flanking the foothills of the Himalaya in northwestern Yunnan province, the region contains more than 100 species of wild rhododendron, nearly 100 known mammal species, and over 150 distinct bird species. Many of these plants and animals are highly endangered, including two species of the Yunnan Golden Monkey, of which less than 1,500 exist in the wild.
by Yingling Liu on May 4, 2006 In recent years, environmentalists in China and elsewhere have expressed rising concern about the large quantities of electronic waste (“e-waste”) that wealthy countries continue to dump in the developing world, particularly in Asia.
by Zijun Li on February 22, 2006 European reaction to an ever-growing mountain of discarded cell phones, computers, televisions, MP3 players, and other electronics equipment has put companies in China and elsewhere in a scramble to respond.
by Zijun Li on December 23, 2005 A Beijing district court ruled that China's top Internet search provider, Baidu.com, infringed the copyrights of 34 recordings belonging to the Shanghai-based agency Push Sound and must pay US $10,000 dollars in compensation.
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