This may not come as a great surprise to anyone who has had to put up with a rasping sore throat in Springtime, but sandstorms are now being predicted to follow the drought that has stricken northern China’s wheat growing heartland. The forecast comes from Li Weijing, deputy director-general of the National Climate Center, in [...]
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February 19, 2008
Rising Prices. Rising Yuan?
The latest monthly inflation figures showing a 7.1% rise in consumer prices in January, the biggest increase in 11 years, are little surprise given the transport bottlenecks and food shortages caused by the severe winter in the south and west of the country. The question is, how long it will take for their impact to [...]
February 10, 2008
Winter Wears On
Life is slowly returning to normal in many of the winter-storm battered central and southern parts of the country, with the exception of Guizhou and Guangxi provinces.
Both are mountainous. The huge official relief effort that is making headway elsewhere is taking time to reach those two provinces’ many remote areas. On Sunday, nine more people [...]
February 6, 2008
Spring Break
The worst of the winter weather seems to have passed. The China Meteorological Administration has lifted its extreme winter weather alert three weeks after the start of the worst snow and ice storms since 1954.
A vast area of southern and central China was blanketed in snow and ice, disrupting power and transport and stranding millions [...]
February 2, 2008
Holiday Coal
With southern and central China still in the grip of its most severe winter since 1954, more snow and ice on the way and relief efforts struggling to keep up with the scale of the relief work, Beijing says it will keep coal mines working over lunar New Year.
Three quarters of China’s 862 biggest mines [...]
January 31, 2008
Snow Storm
The worst snow storms in half a century have shown up the fragility of the country’s infrastructure, particularly for transport and power generation.
In 14 provinces in east, southern and central China, roads and railways have been overwhelmed, unable to move the estimated 179 million people expected to be traveling for New Year or to carry [...]
