Hong Kong's Environmental Protection Department announced the approval of 13 applications for funding support on the trial of green and innovative transport technologies under the Pilot Green Transport Fund. The government set up the HKD300 million Fund to encourage the public transport sector to test out green and low-carbon transport technologies. The Fund has been [...]

U.S. based law firm Levi & Korsinsky is reportedly investigating China Integrated Energy Inc. to determine whether it has violated federal securities laws by issuing false and misleading statements. According to a statement from the law firm, on March 16, 2011, Sinclair Upton Research issued a report alleging that China Integrated concealed numerous "fraudulent acquisitions" [...]

U.S.-based electric car firm Zap is working in Shanghai to develop eco-friendly transportation. Zap has reportedly begun project planning with the government of Shanghai's Yangpu District to develop a Green City Zone in Yangpu's downtown area. Based on a memorandum of understanding partnership agreement signed in San Francisco on November 19, 2010, the project plans [...]

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it will ship the first of 10 sets of digital instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants in China, an order worth a total of JPY48 billion, as part of the first commercial collaboration between China and Japan in the field of nuclear power. The digital I&C systems, manufactured [...]

Despite the slowing global economy and planned employee lay-offs around the world, German industrial giant Siemens has announced that it intends to invest considerably more in China than it had previously planned.

Huaneng Power International's Hunan Yongzhou Xiangqi Hydropower Station Project has been approved by the Development and Reform Commission in Hunan.

The China Power Investment Corporation has formally unveiled its initiative to create a large energy industry conglomerate in northwest China with the commencement of the Hongdunzi Project for the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Base in the Ningxia Zhuang Autonomous Region.

The International Financing Corporation is offering financing of USD136 million for ENN Solar Energy, part of the Chinese XinAo Group, in an effort to help drive down global prices for solar-generated electricity.

Tianyi Holdings, which trades as Master Kong, has initiated a water resource proposal contest to encourage the public to find innovative solutions to China's water resource crisis.

The China Greenstar Resource Utilization Investment Fund has entered into an agreement with Shanghai Chuangzhi Tiandi Management Committee for the establishment of a clean technology international innovation center in Shanghai.