China Tells Local Authorities to Improve Lives of Three Gorges Area People
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Yichang, Hubei Province, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) - Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan has instructed local authorities to improve the lives of people relocated to make way for the gigantic Three Gorges Project.
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China to use 55 billion yuan to settle problems in Three Gorges region    BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will invest 55 billion yuan (6.88 billion U.S.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 17 December: China's central government has dispatched a team of inspectors to some provinces in an attempt to put a stop to local government land grabs.
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Chinese PM Wen Jiabao urges his country to "have faith" recent bad weather can be overcome, media reports.
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China says 312 million villagers face water shortages or use water contaminated by fluorine, arsenic and organic or industrial pollutants.
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Booming China has been urged to help its poorer neighbours by Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, who said a larger role by the nascent giant could boost development and improve regional security.
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China has put the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydro-electric project, on flood alert, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday after rain and mudslides killed 76 in areas to the west.
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Over the past 14 years there have been 114 deaths from cancer in Huangmengying, a village with a population of more than 2,400 in Shenqiu County, Central China&#39;s Henan Province.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Japan Lends To Environment, Development Projects in SW China" - Xinhua headline]  Guiyang, Feb.
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China's huge Three Gorges Dam hydropower project could spark environmental catastrophe unless accumulating threats are quickly defused, senior officials and experts have warned.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Official Urges Legislature To Hold Governments Accountable for Pollution" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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A senior Chinese official tells the BBC the country's environmental problems have reached crisis levels.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged to help China's impoverished western regions catch up with the booming eastern coastline, saying the country could not call itself fully modernized otherwise.
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China has been going in for various substantial efforts to rescue the two engineers, who were kidnapped in Pakistan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhang Qiyue tolda regular press conference here Tuesday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Floods in China May Worse This Year: Official" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Excerpt from report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Illegal Local Government Construction Destroying China's Forests" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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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.