中国与世界，环境危机大家谈 WHERE CHINA AND THE WORLD DISCUSS THE ENVIRONMENT
January 15, 2010
A Chinese environmental update
A 50-member Chinese international rescue team has arrived in Haiti, joining global efforts following the magnitude-7 earthquake, China Daily reported. The team brought search-and-rescue dogs and tonnes of equipment and humanitarian aid. Additional supplies will be dispatched as part of China’s US$4.41 million aid pledge, Xinhua said.
The Chinese market is likely to drive demand for renewable energy, giving California companies the opportunity to scale up their technology and drive down costs, Todd Woody wrote for Grist. But solar energy has a dirty secret, he noted: photovoltaic modules are made from a mix of toxic chemicals.
China is taking tentative steps to master another alternative energy industry: using mirrors to capture sunlight, produce steam and generate electricity, The New York Times said.
The country’s car sales officially topped those of the United States for the first time in 2009. Chinese consumers will keep buying cars, Forbes reported, but foreign brands have the edge for now.
Hong Kong’s roadside air pollution reached life-threatening levels on one in every eight days last year, according to Agence France-Presse.
Demonstrators in Hong Kong are opposing a high-speed rail project to link the special administrative region to Guangzhou, the Associated Press said. What began as a protest by suburban villagers who were forced to relocate has grown into a broader coalition.
Following a successful test flight at Hongqiao International Airport, Shanghai will become the first city in China to have five runways for civilian use, China Daily reported, citing People’s Daily Online. The city will host this year’s World Expo.
China will set a new record for the world’s highest airport with a facility planned at an altitude of 4,436 meters in Nagqu prefecture, according to Xinhua.
The environmental organisation WWF launched a programme to protect the habitat of giant pandas in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Xinhua reported.
US product-safety authorities began investigating the presence of cadmium in children’s jewelry imported from China, the Associated Press said, after tests showed that some items consisted primarily of the toxic metal.
China should reduce its reliance on chemical fertilisers by as much as 50% because excessive use has resulted in serious pollution, Reuters quoted research by Renmin University and Greenpeace as saying.
The H1N1 flu strain is rapidly spreading into China’s countryside and there could be a spike in cases around the Lunar New Year period, Reuters reported, when millions of people head back to their home towns.
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