IN SEARCH OF GREEN CHINA

On Aug 12, 2026, Mr. Zhu Rongji passed away at the age of 98. He was China’s premier from 1998 to 2003. Though he served for only one term, he is widely regarded as a highly consequential head of the government for the People’s Republic. In fact, Prof. Hu Angang of Tsinghua University, an influential […]

For the first time in fourteen years, China has revised its air quality standards, introducing more stringent criteria for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). According to the new guidelines, cities will only achieve Class II air quality status if their annual mean PM2.5 concentration remains below 25μg/m3, compared to the previous threshold of 35μg/m3. The implementation […]

Upon entering the wooden house of a Blang family, one is immediately struck by the presence of enormous, dried seed pods suspended from the beams. Often as large as a child’s arm, these pods originate from a plant known in English as the St. Thomas bean. For the Blang people, an ethnic group living in […]

Recently, I had the opportunity to watch the play “Kyoto” at Lincoln Center Theater in New York, a dramatized recreation of the international negotiations that resulted in the historic Kyoto Protocol in 1997. The unexpectedly electrifying theatrical experience, crafted by playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, set designer Miriam Buether, and a star-studded cast including […]

This article was originally published on Dialogue Earth by author Lin Zi under the Creative Commons BY NC ND license. China announced its dual carbon targets in 2020. If you had turned the clock back 30 years to 1990, you would have found yourself in a country beset by environmental crises. In the early 1990s, […]