According to Wan Gang, China's minister of science and technology, China's output of electric cars will hit one million by 2020.

According to Beijing Youth Daily, Beijing will expand the use of electric vehicles in 2010 and will have a total of 5,000 new energy vehicles by 2012.

China and the United States have announced the establishment of a joint clean energy research center.

By ChinaCSR.com Editors This past week marked some of the first indicators in China this year that corporate social responsibility practitioners are already confronting the effects of the global financial crisis.

China's Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Science and Technology have jointly issued a provisional measure on the management of government subsidies for energy-saving and alternative energy automobiles.

The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and the Beijing Municipal Government have jointly issued a license for "Beijing Alternative Energy Automobile Design and Manufacturing Base" to the Beiqi Futian Vehicle Company.

The signing ceremony of the China-France high-level bio-safety laboratory construction contract was recently held in Beijing. Ministry of Science and Technology of China Vice-Minister Liu Yanhua attended the ceremony to honor the occasion.