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The China Environment Forum is the Wilson Center’s platform for convening policy, business, research, and NGO practitioners on the most pressing environment and energy issues facing China.

Our posts on New Security Beat examine the environmental footprint of China’s rapid urbanization and industrialization with a particular eye on the country’s interlinked water, energy, and food insecurity.

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  • Cleaning up China’s Ports: Shenzhen Explores Fuel Switching and Onshore Power

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  February 24, 2016  //  By Zhou Yang & Xiaoli Mao
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    China’s “strictest air protection law” yet took effect on January 1, 2016, promising to bring big changes to its smog-filled cities. But some municipal governments have been ahead of the curve, working to clean up the air through experimentation and innovation. Shenzhen, China’s first special economic zone and which recently passed its neighbor Hong Kong to lead China’s most competitive cities, is one of these.

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  • Breaking Out of the Dome: Can Energy Efficiency Help Chinese Cities Conquer Air Pollution?

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    China Environment Forum  //  February 2, 2016  //  By Qinnan Zhou
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    In December 2015, Beijing issued its first-ever “red alert” for smog, its highest air pollution warning, which closed schools and restricted the number of cars on the road. Less than two weeks later, it issued its second.

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  • Can the “World’s Largest Urban Area” Clean Up Its Act? Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  December 8, 2015  //  By Keith Schneider
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    SHENZHEN, China – In 1980, the year Deng Xiaoping established Shenzhen as China’s first special economic zone, opening its mercantile sectors to market capitalism and free trade principles, an attractive, tree-shaded commercial district known as Dongmen was home to 30,000 residents near the center of a metropolitan region of 300,000.

    Thirty-five years later, Dongmen is a crowded commercial neighborhood of 300,000 residents at the edge of a metropolitan region of 18 million, China’s fourth largest.

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  • Will China’s New Air Law Solve its Pollution Crisis?

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    China Environment Forum  //  November 25, 2015  //  By Cai Jingjing & Joyce Tang
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    The recent news that China has been underreporting its already globe-leading coal consumption by nearly 20 percent for the last decade underscores the scale of its air pollution crisis.

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  • In Shenzhen, Tracking the Early Steps of China’s Carbon Pivot

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  November 18, 2015  //  By Keith Schneider
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    SHENZHEN, China – To some extent, the contemporary industrial age is a global narrative of substance abuse and recovery.

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  • What’s the Impact of China’s Cap-and-Trade Program?

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    China Environment Forum  //  November 4, 2015  //  By Zhou Yang

    China’s announcement of a nationwide cap-and-trade program is a sign that the government is serious in its “war against pollution,” says China Environment Forum Director Jennifer Turner, and it may help move the climate change discussion in the United States too.

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  • Soy What? How China’s Growing Appetite is Transforming the Port of Oakland

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    China Environment Forum  //  Choke Point  //  October 19, 2015  //  By Susan Chan Shifflett

    As part of the Wilson Center and Circle of Blue’s Global Choke Point project, Choke Point: Port Cities will examine how Oakland, California, and Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, are responding to interlinked water, energy, and pollution challenges. These multimedia reports are meant to inform exchanges and convenings in 2016 to share among leaders of both cities and others like them around the Pacific Rim.

    There’s perhaps no better evidence of China’s growing appetite for American agricultural products than the ongoing transformation of the port of Oakland.

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  • China’s Cap-and-Trade System a Crucial Weapon in “War on Pollution,” Says Jennifer Turner

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    China Environment Forum  //  September 30, 2015  //  By Schuyler Null & Joyce Tang

    The announcement in Washington on September 24 that President Xi Jinping is committing China to a national carbon trading system is the latest step in an important partnership between the two biggest carbon emitters in the world.

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