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China energy security
Solar energy milestone: China taps the ocean in breakthrough for industry
The Qingdao-based project is projected to boost offshore power and help cut emissions by 14,000 tonnes annually.
5 Jul 2025 - 4:00PM
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Environment
Opinion
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How Asia’s failure to cooperate is killing its rivers and oceans
19 Jun 2025 - 9:30AM
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Environment
From Avatar to mountain of rubbish: China pulls decade of trash from caves
10 Jun 2025 - 6:48PM
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China society
Opinion
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How China’s modernisation offers a new path to prosperity
Focused on equity and shared development outcomes, China’s path to modernity has both distinct characteristics and global relevance.
7 May 2025 - 4:35PM
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Climate change
Opinion
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China must resist greenwashing its dirty coal habit with green bonds
Can China credibly claim climate leadership while doubling down on its dirtiest fuel?
24 Apr 2025 - 9:30AM
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Hong Kong environmental issues
Editorial
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Raise awareness of air pollution hazards in Hong Kong
We can’t control the weather, but proper warnings must be issued in a timely manner so that Hongkongers can take appropriate precautions.
16 Apr 2025 - 7:45AM
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China food security
Beijing bids adieu to ‘basic’ farmland with plan to supercharge soil
When it’s basic farmland vs ‘well-facilitated’ farmland, the latter considerably outperforms in cost and yield.
31 Mar 2025 - 7:30PM
Business of climate change
Hang Lung pushes for faster decarbonisation in construction sector
Developer urges quicker regulatory progress and pilot programmes to expedite low-carbon material adoption, vital for decarbonising the sector.
22 Dec 2024 - 10:00AM
China energy security
China’s nuclear power ambitions at core of energy security amid safety concerns
Now the world’s biggest market for nuclear power, China has more than 100 reactors in use or being built along the nation’s coastline.
16 Dec 2024 - 11:30PM
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Art
Art made from plastic waste on Chinese beaches makes a statement
Fu Junsheng collects plastic that washes up on China’s Miaodao islands and turns it into art that highlights the problem of marine pollution.
1 Dec 2024 - 8:33AM
SCMP Highlights
Recap
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Smog shuts New Delhi schools, Shanghai tops pollution list: 6 environment stories
From India’s toxic smog crisis to McDonald’s tackling cow methane, explore the global fight against pollution in our latest stories on the environment.
19 Nov 2024 - 4:13PM
Shanghai
Shanghai is world’s most polluting city, says new data revealed at Cop29
While the Chinese city was found to be worse than all of Colombia or Norway, a site in Texas ‘is the worst polluting site in the entire world’.
15 Nov 2024 - 10:17PM
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China energy security
China takes aim at energy replacement with industry-spanning plan for renewables
More energy must come from renewable sources, but transition from fossil fuels will be orderly, top economic planner says.
31 Oct 2024 - 6:31PM
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Science
All-bamboo plastic a step closer to reality with new processing recipe: study
Chinese researchers say technique to ‘remodel’ the tall grass into a plastic substitute could soon produce eco-friendly utensils, hats, phone cases and more.
29 Aug 2024 - 1:00PM
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Climate change
Opinion
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China’s refusal to say no to coal could nix renewable energy gains
China must resist justifying more coal power as the state grid struggles to deal with the surge in renewable energy.
19 Aug 2024 - 9:36AM
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China society
Opinion
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What China watchers should know about where the country is headed
The reforms outlined in the third plenum sets the groundwork for deepening efforts such as poverty alleviation to sustainable development.
8 Aug 2024 - 4:45PM
China energy security
Beijing urged to quell ‘fluctuations and volatility’ stifling renewable energy
Power capacity and infrastructure are vital to China’s green transition and hi-tech ambitions, but ‘power abandonment’ is a critical setback.
28 Jun 2024 - 7:00PM
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Singapore
Singapore study links air pollution to 135 million premature deaths
The study is one of the most expansive to date, using 40 years of data to give a big-picture view of the effects of air quality on health.
11 Jun 2024 - 1:43PM
China energy security
China targets wasted production, taking aim at pollution and overcapacity
Four industrial sectors have been singled out – steel, petrochemicals, non-ferrous metals, and building materials – with new capacity strictly prohibited or restricted in certain subsectors.
30 May 2024 - 7:00PM
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China energy security
China’s new oil rig in South China Sea helps it drill deep for energy security
New deep-sea mobile operation can reportedly drill to a depth of 9,085 metres, a record for China as Beijing looks to rely less on imported oil and gas amid rising geopolitical uncertainties.
15 Apr 2024 - 9:01PM
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Mental health
Editorial
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Link between clear air and fewer suicides is another reason to act
A study lends support to the argument that there is more to environmental protection than just physical health and economic benefits.
17 Mar 2024 - 1:14AM
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Business of climate change
PET peeve: should Hong Kong’s recycling industry head for the bins?
Hong Kong’s recycling pace lags that in Europe and the US, but government intervention could help transform the landscape as growing landfills contaminate the soil.
4 Mar 2024 - 11:34AM
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Business of climate change
China will miss its climate goals unless it reins in coal power: report
China is at risk of missing its climate targets and suffering major economic losses unless it takes decisive actions to put a halt to runaway coal power plant expansion and reform outdated power grid management, says Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.
22 Feb 2024 - 8:02AM
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Science
Chinese team tests lung treatment that may be first to reverse COPD damage
Paper follows statement by Zuo Wei that ‘stem cell and progenitor cell-based regenerative medicine may be the biggest, if not the only, hope to cure COPD’.
15 Feb 2024 - 3:16PM
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Science
An extra 3 billion people to ‘lack clean water by 2050’, with China in risk zone
Southern China will be among areas at risk as high nitrogen levels continue to deplete clean water supplies, researchers in Germany and Netherlands say in paper for Nature Communications.
7 Feb 2024 - 5:46PM
Climate change
The View
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Is it time for ‘developing’ China to start funding UN climate aid?
As a developing country, China does not have to give directly to UN climate funds, such as the loss and damage fund. This has fuelled a debate over outdated categories.
4 Feb 2024 - 7:00PM
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China economy
Opinion
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China tech: Wuxi model shows local governments how to drive growth
Wuxi’s evolution from an industrial hub to an epicentre of technological innovation offers other local governments a prime example of how to employ a unique blend of public and private sector integration to promote regional economic development.
5 Jan 2024 - 8:30PM
Climate change
Opinion
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Climate action: how China is accelerating the drive towards a net zero world
Chinese firms dominate green industries from renewable energy to electric vehicles, China’s Belt and Road Initiative promotes green projects and even its e-commerce push brings energy savings.
31 Dec 2023 - 7:30PM
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