Korean Air recently launched an environmental campaign at Beijing's Oriental Plaza where it handed out 5,000 environmentally-friendly bags to advocate a green lifestyle and environmental protection.

The environmental departments of 11 Chinese provinces have jointly signed a framework agreement on cooperation to protect the environment.

According to The Associated Press, American solar cell giant First Solar has been given approval by the Chinese government to set up a solar power production base in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.

The Shenhua Beidian Shengli Energy Company in Inner Mongolia has adopted technolgy from the German-based Wirtgen Group which it expects will make large savings in the fuel consumption and the corresponding greenhouse gas emissions associated with open caste coal mining.

A document titled "Study on the Regional Difference of Ecological Civilization in China", which is said to be the first rating on the ecological civilization of Chinese provinces and cities since the term 'ecological civilization construction' was put forward, has been formally published.

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has issued two circulars which require environmental labels be adopted for all vehicles.

An environmentally-friendly high-tech paper project has been launched jointly by Inner Mongolia Jingfeng Environmentally-friendly Stone Paper Company and Hong Kong Lung Meng Environmental Friendly Paper Group Company in Zhunge'er Economic Development Zone in Inner Mongolia.