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Chinese Environmental News

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Is China planning on a 1,000km tunnel to turn Xinjiang into California?
Nov 24, 2017 (WiC 389)

Since the mid-1800s Chinese scholars have dreamed of bringing water to Xinjiang and making the desert bloom. The first was Lin Zexu, an imperial official who was banished to the arid western region during the First Opium War; later came Zhu ...

Delivery firms try to cut down on waste boxes from online sales
Nov 10, 2017 (WiC 387)

In July JD.com celebrated its birthday in the usual way: running a sales campaign on its website to rival Alibaba’s Singles’ Day. According to China Daily, it sold 700 million items during the sales spree. But as we reported in WiC347, a ...

A load of old rubbish

News of China’s ban on trash imports ripples around the globe
Oct 6, 2017 (WiC 383)

Wang Jiuliang has made a reputation for himself as a producer of documentaries: his films are some of the quickest to go viral in social media but also the first to be purged by Chinese censors. Take Plastic Kingdom, a 2014 ...

Flood season remains chaotic in China
Jul 14, 2017 (WiC 374)

People don’t talk about China having a monsoon the way they speak of the summer downpours in India or Southeast Asia. But China’s rainy season is every bit as dramatic – and deadly. In fact, so far, this year torrential rains have ...

Why Hongkongers aren’t showing enough gratitude to Heyuan residents
Jan 27, 2017 (WiC 353)

The state of Lesotho is surrounded on all sides by South Africa. Normally the two countries get on well enough, but last year Lesotho suffered from a serious drought and people began feeling a little resentful towards their encircling neighbour. ...

Wealth but not health?

China starts the new year again choking in heavy smog
Jan 6, 2017 (WiC 350)

When Chinese Premier Li Keqiang declared war on pollution two years ago, he described it as a deadly enemy, and promised “we must fight it with all our might”. Xi Jinping, China’s president and Li’s senior colleague, has made similar ...

More bad news for China’s coalminers
Sep 30, 2016 (WiC 341)

“I have repeatedly said that green mountains and clear water are as good as mountains of gold and silver.” So insisted Xi Jinping in his opening address to the G20 summit in Hangzhou this month. The evening before, China and the US had ...

Beijing finally gets serious about soil pollution
Jul 29, 2016 (WiC 335)

China’s air pollution woes are widely understood. Images of streets shrouded in smog and urban residents wearing protective masks are commonplace. But China’s challenges with other less visible forms of pollution are often neglected. Such ...

Heavy downpours flood more Chinese cities
Jul 22, 2016 (WiC 334)

It was supposed to be capable of handling the kind of deluge that happens just once in a thousand years. Instead, the controversial Three Gorges Dam hasn’t prevented the worst flooding in just two decades after the lower reaches of the Yangtze ...

Force of nature

Jiangsu’s worst natural disaster in decades kills 98
Jul 1, 2016 (WiC 331)

The Chinese word for tornado is longjuanfeng – or literally, a dragon coil wind. Like many Chinese terms it is poetically accurate, conveying the destruction that twisters can bring. But that won’t be of any consolation to the ...

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