(January 3, 2000) Plans have been launched to make both residential and office buildings more energy efficient. In the first five months of the year, industrial policymakers announced three sets of new national standards. They are regulations on energy saving for civil buildings, standards for residential buildings and technical evaluations of residential constructions.
Auditors uncover tide of misconduct
(December 17, 1999) Company funds spent on securities speculation, flood control money squandered on building a new hotel, billions stolen to set up a company and bogus stock listings are among the misdeeds uncovered by government auditors this year.
The Three Gorges dam: A great leap backward for China’s electricity consumers and economy
Uneconomic and outdated, the Three Gorges dam will stunt China’s economic growth
China’s Three Gorges dam to begin flood control with a bang
(December 15, 1999) The moment of truth for the world’s largest dam will arrive on June 6. The main concrete wall of the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River must begin to hold water after a temporary cofferdam is demolished in a series of planned explosions.
Operation, monitoring and decommissioning of large dams in India
(December 1999) Large dams can trigger earthquakes. The first observation of possible RIS was noted for Algeria’s Quedd Fodda Dam in 1932; the first extensive study of the correlation between increased earthquake […]
Three Gorges dam will turn the fast-flowing Yangtze into stagnant, polluted reservoir
(November 29, 1999) Wei Ming, writing under a pseudonym, is a Chinese sociologist who recently visited five of the 22 Yangtze river counties that are slated for flooding by the Three Gorges dam.
China’s longest river ‘cancerous’ with pollution
(November 19, 1999) China’s longest river is "cancerous" with pollution and rapidly dying, threatening drinking water supplies in 186 cities along its banks, state media said on Tuesday. Chinese environmental experts fear worsening pollution could kill the Yangtze river within five years, Xinhua news agency said, calling for an urgent clean-up.
The Three Gorges Project: an error in ‘democratic decision-making’
(November 16, 1999) After eleven and a half years, the construction of Three Gorges Dam located on the Yangtze River at Sandouping of Yichang City, Hubei Province was officially completed on the morning of May 20, 2006.
Crisis as Yangtze evacuees rise to 4m
China is to move 700,000 people from low-lying areas along the Yangtze River before next summer’s flood season, the official China Daily newspaper reported yesterday.
In search of the new China
The Middle Kingdom has seen great advances and horrible setbacks. Where is it heading now?
Controversial dam supported
Minister of the Economy Muller: Federal Government gives export guarantee to Siemens for the Three Gorges dam in China. Protests on account of the resettlement of two million people.
City water vulnerable to ‘cancerous’ river
(November 1, 1999) Experts warned yesterday that the Yangtze River has become so "cancerous" with pollution that it is threatening the safety of drinking water in Shanghai and other cities along its banks.
China’s largest hydro dam unable to stem losses
China’s largest hydro-electric dam, built with the biggest project loan ever extended by the World Bank, is running at about half capacity and making a hefty loss, executives and bankers said yesterday.
Chongqing municipality refuses to buy power from World Bank-financed Ertan dam
China’s largest hydrodam will lose US$121 million (1 billion yuan) this year, according to its general manager, because it doesn’t have enough customers for its output.
PRESS RELEASE: China’s largest hydrodam can’t sell its power
China’s largest hydrodam will lose US$121 million (1 billion yuan) this year, according to its general manager, because it doesn’t have enough customers for its output.
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