China has no master plan in place to halt its advancing deserts, said a new book published by the US-based Earth Policy Institute. Desert encroachment has accelerated since the 1950s, with the Gobi Desert expanding by 52,400sq km between 1994 and 1999 according to China's Environmental Protection Agency. The primary cause of the problem is […]
Category: Energy & Environment
Approval has been given to build China's largest power plant in Yangjiang, Guangdong province, reported Xinhua. The decision, which ends a seven-year feasibility study, was made by an evaluation panel attended by nuclear experts from home and abroad. Building work will start next year on the Yn8bn plant and production should begin within 15-20 years. […]
China has bought power equipment in the first seven months of this year that will add 30GW of new capacity to the national grid, according to a survey of orders reported by the Financial Times. This is equal to nearly 10 per cent of existing national capacity and is 50 per cent more than the […]
Construction will begin next September of China's longest oil pipeline, which will stretch 1,691km from Maoming in Guangdong province to Kunming, capital of Yunnan. Project approval has been given to Sinopec, which is the project investor and China's largest refining company. The pipeline will cost Yn3.52bn to build and will pass through the provinces of […]
Royal Dutch/Shell and Unocal of the US will form part of a US$1bn joint venture to drill for oil and gas in an offshore area 450km from Shanghai. CNNOC and China Petroleum & Chemical will each hold 30 per cent of the venture, with the two foreign companies sharing the remainder. Analysts said the gas […]