At the starting year of the 12th Five-Year Guideline, let us look back to the last Five-Year Guideline which was intended to promote institution advancement, sustainable society and so on, and see the challenges we are still facing now.

Climate change presents the world with massive and potentially devastating challenges. As the world’s two leading economic powerhouses, China and the United St

I used to seek solace in my hometown Yangzhou or other similarly serene cities whenever the frenzy of Shanghai got to me. But there's no escape anymore. Hig

China's 2011 began with a severe dry spell, which has drawn anxieties both at home and abroad. Nearly four months of drought in the northern part was broken

China Central Television (CCTV) recently published the results of an annual survey which revealed that 44.6 percent of Chinese people feel that they are happy,

The role of civil society in global climate policy is mysterious to many in China, writes Chen Jiliang. But public campaigning is crucial work that must persist

Longstanding Chinese ideals, which seek balance between man and nature, could help humans find a better way of living, writes Pan Yue, China’s vice minister fo

Struck by a spate of fatal landslides, Shaanxi plans to relocate 2.4 million people to safer ground. But will this ambitious programme work? Meng Dengke reports

An ancient Chinese legend tells how Emperor Yu the Great, more than four thousand years ago, tamed massive floods by uniting tribal leaders and spurring them to

If one word could sum up China’s environmental events of the Year of the Tiger, it would be “leak”. At the beginning of 2010, a diesel leak from the Weinan b