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English Stories from the Chinese Press, March 16-23, 2014

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AIR POLLUTION

Smog insurance for ruined vacations hits market. Those whose vacations are affected by heavy air pollution can obtain compensation if they purchase the insurance. China, Shanghai Daily 23 March 2014.

China's first "fresh air index" released. China's Fujian province on Wednesday began releasing the firstever "fresh air index" to promote eco-tourism, which focuses on changes at a single tourist attraction. China, People's Daily online, 20 March 2014.

War Against Smog. National political advisors share their ideas on tackling the country's environmental challenge. China, Beijing Review 17 March 2014.

War on smog requires better health care. After President Xi Jinping “war against smog”, many lawmakers and political advisers submitted smog-related proposals. China, Shanghai Daily 17 March 2014.

TECHNOLOGY

Watchdog warns of dangers of plastic cell phone covers. The Shanghai watchdog said it checked 50 batches of plastic cement shells of mobile phones, and found six of them containing  poisonous and carcinogenic compound. China, Shanghai Daily 20 March 2014.

China releases 2014 scientific report. This year's reports emphasized clean technologies and said the next ten years will be the most challenging time for resources and environment protection. China, CCTV.cn, 18 March 2014.

POLICY      

China should go for greener growth: experts. Experts said on Friday that China should create incentives to facilitate industrial innovation and greener economic growth to deal with environmental challenges. China, Xinhua News Agency 21 March 2014.

China Focus: China's new plan targets quality urbanization. The National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014-2020), the first official plan on urbanization, was issued on Sunday by the CentralCommittee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council.  China, People's Daily online, 17 March 2014.

ENERGY

Nuclear power to have no short-term effect on China's smog problem. Nuclear power as a solution to the country's chronic smog problem is unlikely to show results in the short term due to the series of impediments to the development of nuclear power in the nation. China, Want China Times 16 March 2014.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Forecasting of fluctuating weather to be more challenging: HK Observatory. Shun, director of HK observatory, said at a press briefing of the observatory that the outbreak of abnormal weather events around the world in recent years was clear signs that the impact of climate changes was already being felt world widely, and that we would expect more. China, Xinhua News Agency 17 March 2014.

Flavia Cruciani




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