As Heavy Industry Moves East, China Becomes the Worldâs Smokestack
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In its rush to recreate the industrial revolution that made the West rich, China has absorbed most of the major industries that once made the West dirty.
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China hoped to become a highly competitive producer of crocodile meat, hides and shoes, but that dream has been difficult to realize.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 12--LINFEN, China -- Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.   It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night.
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At a dusty border crossing on  a remote section of the China-Vietnam border, Puzhai looks more  like a railway crossing than an entry point into the world&#39;s  most resource-ravenous economy.
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BEIJING -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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Where the frenetic pace of technological change is concerned Asia's general dominance in the race to provide the next must-have gadget seems only too apparent to many a European.
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SANDAOLING, China  - Dong Ye lights a cigarette  and doesn't give a second thought to fate -- his or his  country's -- as he steps off a dump truck onto the dirt road  that winds into the Sandaoling coal quarry.
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The pace of Chinaâs economic development is still strong enough to keep pushing up prices around the world for everything from oil to iron ore to freight shipping.
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With China celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Pig, Chinese factories that ordinarily spew a big percentage of the world's pollution are idle for a week. However there's no rest for the Chinese computers that produce a big chunk of the Internet's pollution.
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Hong Kong adopts a new regulatory system that could some day be a model for mainland Chinaâs giant power industries.
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China's voracious demand for steel has  tempered of late, stoking fears of industry oversupply and  falling prices as China becomes a net exporter of steel, its  domestic demand slows down and global steelmaking capacity  rises, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday.
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Chinaâs rush to build megacities is part of a major push to spread Chinaâs economic boom to the vast interior.
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World freight shipping prices, particularly the cost of transporting dry raw materials, are steaming ahead at record levels, powered mainly by China's insatiable demand for bulk levels of imported commodities.
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People gather at the gate of No2 Senior Middle School in Ruzhou, near Pingdingshan, in China&#39;s central Henan province. Photograph: Xinhua/Zhu/Reuters.
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BEIJING (Dow Jones)--China&#39;s likely emergence as the world&#39;s textile and garment superpower after 30 years of global quotas end Dec. 31 has spooked rival producers across
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US industry is increasingly turning to countries like Mexico and China for its manufacturing, and to India for high-end services like computer programming.
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Explosive growth has made the People's Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on Earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy. By Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine.