China Mobile Limited, the country's largest telecom operator, has announced that it has signed strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding on a "Green Action Plan" with 53 major suppliers around the world, driving the industry towards energy conservation and emission reduction. In 2007, China Mobile launched its "Green Action Plan", focusing on energy-saving, land and materials, [...]

The world's largest hydropower station, the Three Gorges Power Plant in China, has been chosen by Scientific American as one of the worlds' top ten renewable energy projects.
Lu Youmei, the former general manager of China Three Gorges Project Corporation, told local media at a recent seminar that the Three Gorges Power Plant does not consume [...]

As part of the renovation of the landscape lighting of the Chinese capital for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, thousands of energy saving lights have been adopted for Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
The renovation of the landscape lighting of Tiananmen area covers the lighting of the red walls of Tiananmen, [...]

The Shenhua Beidian Shengli Energy Company in Inner Mongolia has adopted technolgy from the German-based Wirtgen group which it expects will make large savings in the fuel consumption and the corresponding greenhouse gas emissions associated with open caste coal mining.
China Shenhua Shengli Energy Branch is one of the core enterprises of China Shenhua Energy Company [...]

Huaneng Shidongkou No. 2 Power Plant Carbon Capture project, which is reported by Chinese media to be the largest of its kind in the world, will come to Shanghai.
Involving a total investment of CNY150 million, the project is expected to be completed by the end of 2009 with an annual capture of 100,000 tons of [...]

Beijing-based Foton Automobile Company has signed a sales contract with Taiwan Chengyun Automobile Company to provide 75 Euro V hybrid buses.
This is said to be the first time that an automobile manufacturer from mainland China has sold new-energy vehicles to Taiwan.
In January 2008, Foton delivered 30 Euro V hybrid buses to Guangzhou No. 1 Bus [...]

The Bingling Hydropower Clean Development Mechanism project, which is said to be the largest of its kind in the world, has been unveiled in Gansu.
According to Li Ningping, president of BHCDM, BHCDM has a total installed capacity of 240 MW and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 760,000 tons of carbon dioxide [...]

International retailing giant Tesco has opened a new store in Tieling in northeast China which is reportedly the first energy-saving Tesco outlet in the region.

A special commodity, carbon dioxide, has been licensed for trading on the China Beijing Environment Exchange.

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