Beijing 'meets pollution target'
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Blue skies on the last day of the year mean that Beijing has more than met an air pollution target, officials say.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 11 September: Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan said on Sunday that the government will make greater efforts to promote water efficiency and control widespread water pollution.
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China went on the global warming offensive on Monday, unveiling a climate change action plan while stressing it will not sacrifice economic ambitions to international demands to cut greenhouse gas pollution.
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Beijing determined to clean up all polluted rivers, lakes by 2010  BEIJING, Dec.14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese national capital will endeavor to make all rivers and lakes within the sixth ring road of the city free of pollution by the year 2010.
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China holds No Car Day to reduce pollution, but impact seems minimal, at least in the capital.
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BEIJING, June 4 -- China released its first-ever national climate change policy Monday, rejecting mandatory caps on emissions of greenhouse gases as unfair and a threat to the development that has contributed to the country's meteoric economic growth.
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China will do more to save energy and  cut pollution in 2007 while striving to keep its economy  humming following four straight years of double-digit growth,  Premier Wen Jiabao will say on Monday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Beijing Reports Economic Losses Caused by Environmental Pollution" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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BEIJING -- When the opening lyrics of ''Dark Side of the Moon&quot; floated through the air at a Beijing bar on a recent evening, patrons sang along to the Pink Floyd classic. ''Breathe, breathe in the air,&quot; they chanted in chorus. They seemed oblivious to the irony, in a city that is fast becoming one of the world's most polluted.
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Rain-prevention experiments 'satisfactory', claims Beijing Chinese officials have announced that the Beijing Meteorological Bureau has successfully carried out experiments aimed at preventing light rain from washing out the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics on 8 August.â¦
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About 60 percent of Chinese cities still suffer from air pollution and have no centralized sewage treatment facilities, according to a report by the State environment watchdog.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, Feb.
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Chinese officials put the country's unseasonably warm weather down to global warming.
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Businesses could profit from cleaning up China's horrendous pollution.
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China's first climate change plan says the priority in tackling climate change is economic development.
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China is the world's second-largest source of greenhouse gases but when the Kyoto Protocol on climate change comes into force next week it will be under no obligation to cut emissions.
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Beijing persuaded the World Bank to cut from a report findings that pollution has caused about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year, the Financial Times reported.