A representative from the National Energy Bureau of China said at a national energy working conference this week that China would invest up to CNY580 billion on electrical power in 2009 and quicken the construction of new energy sources such as nuclear power and wind power.

Guangdong Province has promulgated a new rule on the use of flood-lighting and street lamps.

Global petroleum company Total says that its talks with China National Offshore Oil Corp, one of the largest offshore oil companies in China, on liquid natural gas has entered its final stages and it expected that a final deal will be signed soon.

TCL Corporation and Guangdong O'meet Group Co., Ltd have signed an agreement to set up a joint venture named Guangdong O'meet Environmental Investment Company to enter the resource and environmental market.

China Water Industry Group Limited has announced that it has entered into an agreement with an independent party about the acquisition of 100% of the issued share capital in Affluent Boom Enterprises Limited.

Jiangsu Lee & Man (Changshu) Paper Manufacturing Limited has reportedly been ordered to stop production by officials from the Ministry of Environmental Protection because of illegal discharges into the Changjiang River.

According to the Economic & Trade Commission of Guangdong Province, three million energy saving bulbs have been made with financial subsidies and will be sold in markets at the price of CNY3.65, which is only one-fifth of the average price.

Greenpeace says its activists boarded the Yang Ming Success and prevented the offloading of an illegal container of waste electronic devices from Port of Oakland in the United States, on its way to Sanshui district in mainland China, via Hong Kong.

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has fined Guangdong Power Grid Corporation RMB200,000 and asked it to stop using the two construction projects in Maoming and Zhanjiang that were built without approval and put into operation without undergoing relevant environmental inspections.

The full results of the Pearl River Delta Regional Air Quality Monitoring Network for 2007, which measured the concentrations of four major pollutants, has now been released.