国家发改委副主任王金祥透露，从2000年至2005年期间，我国中央财政已经累计投入2000多亿元，用于西部地区的生态环境改善和保护， 但目前我国西部地区的生态环境局面仍然十分严峻。
The Chinese government invested more than 200 billion yuan (over US $25 billion) from 2000 to 2005 in improving the environment in the west of the country, but the situation remains critical.
航空公司已增加飞往西藏自治区首府拉萨的航班，希望可以在上周六开通的青藏铁路所带来的旅游经济增长中分得一杯羹。
Airlines have increased the number of flights to Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, hoping to help themselves to a slice of the tourism boom stimulated by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway that opened on Saturday.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest, began operation on last Saturday. The first train left Golmud, the second largest city of Qinghai in northwest China, for Lhasa, in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
中国，作为世界第二大能源消费国，从今天起对居民生活用电和工商业用电提价以帮助电力公司应付煤价上涨。这是一年多来的首次提升电价。
China, the world's second-biggest energy user, raised electricity prices to households and businesses for the first time in more than a year to help power companies offset the higher cost of coal.
英国能源工业相关人士周四表示，英国可以利用风能和潮汐能等海洋能源技术生产足够的电能供应给将近200万家庭。
Britain could produce enough electricity to supply nearly two million homes using marine power technology which harnesses energy from waves and tidal streams, the power industry said on Thursday.
亚洲发展银行（ADB）周五在马尼拉公布报告表示，亚行将向中国广西壮族自治区首府南宁市提供1亿美元贷款，以帮助完成南宁城市环境保护和公共健康工程。
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will loan US$ 100 million to help a project of urban environment protection and public health in Nanning, capital of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, an ADB report said in Manila Friday.
