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Planning facilities are provided – in derogation of the current legislation – to strategic investors, introducing Presidential Decrees, ministerial decisions and other government approvals as “safety valves”
From dead pigs in the Shanghai river to toxic smog in major cities, 2013 was a year of dramatic environmental stories in China. We asked some of our contributors for their predictions on how these and other stories are likely to develop in the coming yearLi Bingqin, Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy2013 saw Chinese cities badly hit by smog. The public
As air pollution once more soared to hazardous levels last week in Beijing, in Washington a panel of Chinese and other international experts explained some of the solutions to taking cars off the roads in the world’s most populous country, but there are few easy answers.Chinese cities are struggling to discourage driving after decades of unprecedented growth in car ownership,
The Meat of the MatterUnquestionably global food prices are skyrocketing as worst-casescenarios are colliding simultaneously. Since WW II meat consumption by all socio-economicclasses entered America’s culinary DNA with steakhouses representing the apex redmeat temples, the literal “High-Table” where big business discusses big dealsover bigger steaks paid for by big expenses
Evermore people are enthusiasticallyembracing greater freedom of movement with the arrival of warm weather andnationwide loosening of restrictions in public venues due to increased vaccinationsand falling Covid positive rates. For these brief few blissful weeks it mightseem like the Old Normal good old days déjà vu even amongst the “rubble”