BEIJING, Dec. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Beijing has unveiled the country's first municipality-level white paper on garbage treatment Wednesday, hoping to greatly improve its garbage treatment capacity by 2008, when the city will host the Olympic Games.
Beijing will invest some 3.2 billion yuan (about 386 million USdollars) over the next five years to build waste treatment projects, according to the White Paper on Beijing Municipality's Household Garbage Treatment.
Apart from the current 17 garbage treatment plants in Beijing, the city will build another 15 new waste-handling centers, hoping to raise its daily garbage treatment capacity to 12,500 tons in 2008 from the current 8,800 tons.
BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhuanet) -- The Chinese capital has drafted a new five-year plan to clean up the environment and reduce air pollution by 2008, when it will host the Olympic Games.
One step towards that goal is reducing dependence on coal. By 2007, the city plans to supply five billion cubic meters of natural gas annually, pipelined from China's western region, compared with 1.8 billion last year, Liu said. Other measures to reduce coal consumption include increasing electricity production and the use of clean energy.
The city also plans to move more than 200 polluting factories outside the fourth beltway encircling the city.[1]
Xinhua. China will have some 150 trucks powered by natural gas plying the expressway between the eastern coastal city of Qingdao and the Chinese capital of Beijing by 2008, as part of the government's efforts to clean up for an environment-friendly Olympics.[1]
Faced with a mounting smog problem and huge traffic snarls, city officials in Beijing are taking steps to staunch a surge in the number of privately-owned cars.[2]
China's capital city Beijing will implement a series of green measures in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic games. The event affords host cities mass global media exposure, and Beijing is keen to shed its industrial and polluted image. The main focus of the efforts will be an attempt to reduce emissions from vehicles. Euro II output standards will be implemented in all new cars, whilst fuel producers will introduce a low-particulate petrol early next year. Emissions from local factories are also set to addressed and revised within the next year. During the games, electric vehicles will be used for official transportation between venues.[2]
Residents of Beijing are worried that the careless disposal of dead pets is hurting their campaign for a "green" Olympic Games to be held in the capital in 2008, Xinhua news agency said.
Of the more than 200 pets that die each day in Beijing, only one is cremated. The rest are either buried or dumped in trash cans, Xinhua said.
Pets were shunned in the days of Mao Zedong as a symbol of bourgeois decadence, but pet pooches have become increasingly popular in the last decade as living standards have risen.[2]
A wind power plant, said to be the largest of its kind in Asia, will be built in Erenhot City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, to provide clean energy resources for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.[1]
More urban buildings in Beijing, including some Olympic Games venues, are expected to use environment-friendly geothermal energy by the year 2010, according to senior municipal officials.
Official with the city's development and reform commission Chen Huaiwei estimates that 20 million square metres of buildings will be using geothermal energy by then.
The municipal government is drafting preferential policies to encourage more real estate developers to use this kind of clean energy, he said.
It is planning to give developers easier access to bank loans or may give them subsidies if they adopt the technology in new buildings, Chen said.[1]BEIJING, CHINA – Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham joined China's Science and Technology Minister Xu and Beijing's Vice Mayor Fan today to sign the Green Olympic Protocol for Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games.[1]
BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhuanet) -- The national capital Beijing willplant 34,700 hectares of trees this year, raising the forest coverage rate of the city to 49 percent from last year's 47.5 percent, according to an official with the city's afforestation committee. This means nearly half of Beijing's total land space of 16,807.8 square kilometers will be green area. Song Xiyou, head of the general office of the Capital Afforestation Committee, said Beijing would have 500 more hectares of land space covered with trees and grass in the city proper this year, raising the ratio of urban green space to 42 percent from last year's 41.07 percent. He said this meant the per capita forested area in the city proper would rise by one square meter year-on-year to reach 45 square meters this year. Other afforestation projects will cover green belts along the Fifth Ring Road, highways and railways, forest shelters along local rivers, large scale greenery projects, like the Olympic Park,small parks inside local communities and green belts along urban roads and in residential zones. Efforts will also be made to plant 13,300 hectares of trees on barren hills and turn 9,333 hectares of low-yield sloping farmland into forested areas in the suburban area, according to Song. All these afforestation projects are part of Beijing's efforts to hold a green Olympic Games in 2008, Song said.[1]
In 2004, a symposium on sustainable development of Olympic venue projects was held, the Environmental Guidelines for renovated venues was developed, the environmental requirements for several sport events were formulated. The Environmental Impact Assessment reports of some Olympic projects were finished under the supervision. Green construction were actively promoted among Olympic construction sites as well.[1]
BEIJING There is a placard beside Tiananmen Square that counts the days until the 2008 Summer Olympics, and every one of them would seem precious: Beijing must build or renovate 72 sports stadiums and training facilities, lay asphalt for 59 new roads and complete three new bridges by the opening ceremony.
It is a task that would overwhelm most cities, but Beijing is so efficient at pouring concrete that the International Olympic Committee has asked it to slow down rather than finish too soon.[1]
WASHINGTON, DC , April 18, 2005 (ENS) - Beijing has pledged to the International Olympic Committee to achieve World Health Organization standards for urban air quality in time for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working with the Chinese government to ensure that goal is achieved.[1]
Business leaders, industry insiders and government officials flocked to Beijing yesterday, brought together by two words: "Green Olympics."
More than 30 enterprises, half from abroad, met to discuss clean technology, renewable and recyclable materials and the huge market sparked by the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The main buildings, temporary facilities, sites and affiliated services are all required to use green materials, one of Beijing's commitments to the Games, he added.
Dirk Starke, a marketing and sales manager from Germany-based BASF, a chemical company, is working with its business partner in China, Tianan Biologics, to promote biodegradable polymers.
BEIJING, Sept. 24(Xinhuanet)-- A US-based non-governmental organization (NGO) has launched a program for environmental protection in Beijing in an effort to help build "Green Beijing, Green Olympics," the organizer announced here Saturday.
"Eco Action Beijing," as the program called, will invite the primary school, middle school and university students in Beijing to participate in the campaign for public welfare, said Katherine Jiang, outreach coordinator of the Roots and Shoots Beijing Office.[1]
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