China news digest

China’s oil and gas companies should use more new energy during extraction and accelerate new energy generation, states gov action plan

A special agency has been established to reform China’s environmental disclosure system

China’s annual Two Sessions have closed, with legislators and political advisors having offered thousands of proposals, including many related to climate and energy

In the past five years, China's carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP have dropped by 14.1%, showed Premier Li Keqiang in his government work report at the Two Sessions this week.

China’s coal consumption increased by 4.3% in 2022, according to a government communiqué released on 28 February

China’s supreme court has issued the country’s first legal guidelines on facilitating peak carbon emissions

China will promote “rural vitalisation” and accelerate the modernisation process in rural regions this year guided by the government’s No.1 central document

Last spring, summer and autumn were warmest in China since records began, finds annual climate bulletin

Local govs are setting policy goals for 2023 ahead of the “Two Sessions” in early March when the central government will reveal its annual policy plans

The Poyang Lake sluice gate is to have two additional holes to allow passage of the endangered Yangtze finless porpoise