China's Government Tightens Its Grip On Golf, Shuts Down Courses
By 2004, many of China's hundreds of golf courses were found to be built on valuable farmland through corrupt land deals.
Living in China’s Expanding Deserts
People on the edges of the country’s vast seas of sand are being displaced by climate change
Environment
11.11.15
China’s Bottled Water Industry to Exploit Tibetan Plateau
from chinadialogueTibet wants to bottle up much more of the region’s water resources, despite shrinking glaciers and the impact that exploitation of precious resources would have on neighboring countries.
This week, the Tibet Autonomous...
Environment
02.26.14
South-North Water Transfer ‘Not Sustainable,’ Official Says
from chinadialogueThe $62 billion South-North Water Transfer Project would be rendered irrelevant if one-third of buildings in Beijing could collect more rainwater and recycle more wastewater, according to a Chinese ministerial official.
The remarks made...
Environment
01.08.14
The Drying Up of China’s Largest Freshwater Lake
from chinadialogueWhen Jiang Minsheng moored his fishing boat on the eastern shore of Jiangxi’s Poyang Lake...
Environment
05.16.13
Singapore’s Growth Story Holds Lessons for Water-Scarce China
from chinadialogueWhen the tiny city-state of Singapore gained independence in 1965, its social, economic, political, and environmental constraints appeared so formidable that many of those looking in from outside predicted a future of dismal dimensions.
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Environment
04.30.13
Why Has Water-Rich Yunnan Become A Drought Hotspot?
from chinadialogueYunnan’s drought continues. During China’s annual parliamentary session in March, the deputy party secretary of the southwest Chinese province, Qiu He, blamed spring floodwaters that flow through Yunnan and on into other countries for the water...
Sinica Podcast
06.03.11
Water on the Brink
from Sinica PodcastAs the southern Yangtze region struggles with its worst drought in a century, China’s grand plans for water diversion projects and its Three Gorges Dam have come under renewed scrutiny, as have expectations Beijing can maintain economic stability...