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29/01/2015

China eyes mass innovation, entrepreneurship as new engine – Xinhua | English.news.cn

China’s State Council pledged to take various steps to create an amicable environment for innovation and entrepreneurship in order to power growth and generate jobs.

China should embrace the trend of mass entrepreneurship and innovation in the Internet age, a statement released after an executive meeting of the State Council presided over by Premier Li Keqiang said.

The statement said China will foster a platform offering low-cost services in a variety of areas to micro businesses and individual start-ups that show innovation.

The government will also step up policy support, such as simplifying registration procedures and giving subsidies, to innovative businesses. They will improve financing systems to give special support to start-up companies, according to the statement.

Although China’s broader economy is slowing, China’s young entrepreneurs are driving a wave of startups that has become a bright spot for the economic landscape and an important engine for future growth.

The number of newly founded companies in China surged almost 46 percent year on year to 3.65 million in 2014, the latest data showed.

via China eyes mass innovation, entrepreneurship as new engine – Xinhua | English.news.cn.

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06/08/2014

China Tells Quake Volunteers: Stay Home, Please – China Real Time Report – WSJ

Feeling charitable? That’s fine—but please stay at home.

That’s the message from China’s State Council, which in the wake of an earthquake in southwest China that killed at least 589 people has urged eager volunteers to stay away from the disaster zone.

In the immediate aftermath of the quake, hundreds of volunteers from across the country traveled swiftly to the site of the quake with the goal of doing good works. One major effect of their presence, though, was car-clogged roads, some of which had already been blocked or reduced to muddy swirls of broken rubble in the aftermath of the quake, which felled tens of thousands of buildings and left more than 2,400 injured.

On Wednesday, state broadcaster CCTV echoed the State Council’s message, saying that authorities needed to dissuade “non-professional rescue organizations, volunteers, tourists etc. from going to the disaster zone.” Doing so, CCTV said, would support the work of quake rescuers.

State media has urged those wanting to assist with the quake relief effort to consider making monetary contributions instead of rushing to Yunnan. Similar outpourings of volunteerism have been blamed for hindering relief efforts in China in the past, notably during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which killed some 87,000 people. In addition to traffic jams, such volunteers also need food and water and can sometimes be a burden on already stretched supplies of the same.

Still, according to official figures, at least 650 volunteers have flooded the disaster zone since the quake struck on Sunday afternoon, includingmany decked out with their own uniforms and equipment.

via China Tells Quake Volunteers: Stay Home, Please – China Real Time Report – WSJ.

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20/12/2013

China Cracks Down on Extravagance at Communist Party Members’ Funeral Services – China Real Time Report – WSJ

Not even death can save party cadres from China’s latest austerity campaign.

China’s State Council, or cabinet, issued a notice Thursday asking Communist Party members to dial back on the extravagance at funerals and make them more environmentally sustainable.

The official Xinhua news agency warned that party members’ lavish funerals are becoming “a platform to show off wealth and connections, with the degree of opulence and number of mourners symbolizing the ‘achievements’ of the dead, and setting a benchmark for competition among the living.” It also warned that in recent years as superstitious customs have seen a resurgence, the cremation rate has fallen, leading to some burials occurring on farmland—wasting natural resources and harming the environment. Some party members are even using funerals to collect large sums of money, it added.

via China Cracks Down on Extravagance at Communist Party Members’ Funeral Services – China Real Time Report – WSJ.

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01/10/2013

China’s Synthetic Natural Gas Plants Could Accelerate Climate Change – Businessweek

Northern China’s reliance on burning coal for heat and energy contributes to the heavy haze that shrouds city buildings, especially in winter, and shortens the life spans of northerners as compared with their southern counterparts by as much as five years, according to a recent study (PDF) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A worker moves coal briquettes onto a pedicab at a coal distribution business in Huaibei, central China's Anhui province on January 30, 2013.

Beijing and other Chinese cities won’t see frequent blue skies until coal burning is dramatically curtailed in adjacent industrial regions. In September, China’s State Council released a significant new environmental target: trimming coal’s contribution to overall energy output from 67 percent in 2012 to 65 percent in 2017, even as the country’s economy and energy demand continue to grow.

STORY: Growing Concerns About Pollution And Public Health In China

Unfortunately, one scheme to limit coal burning by converting China’s plentiful coal supplies into synthetic natural gas (SNG) presents a host of other ecological worries. To date, China’s government has approved construction of nine large SNG plants in northern and western China, which are projected to generate 37 billion cubic meters of gas each year when completed. At least 30 more proposed plants are awaiting approval.

None of these planned plants are located near large Chinese cities, so the emissions generated in producing the gas will not hang directly over metropolises. But that doesn’t mean the coal-to-gas conversion process is clean. According to a new study (PDF) in Nature Climate Change, the entire life cycle of harvesting coal and turning it into gas produces from 36 percent to 82 percent more total greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal directly—depending on whether the gas is used to generate electricity or power vehicles.

While the most-polluting stages of energy generation could be moved farther from China’s population centers—perhaps allowing for more brighter, cleaner days in Beijing—the net effect could be to accelerate global climate change, argue the study’s authors, Chi-Jen Yang and Robert Jackson of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.

via China’s Synthetic Natural Gas Plants Could Accelerate Climate Change – Businessweek.

See also: https://chindia-alert.org/economic-factors/greening-of-china/

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