Environmentalists should take note of a new energy venture between a foreign and domestic firm in China.

China National Petroleum Corporation has started construction of the nation's first carbon capture and storage project.

The Chinese state-owned mining and energy company, Shenhua Group, is developing a carbon dioxide capture and storage project that is reported to be the first of its kind in China, in Erdos, Inner Mongolia.

On the eve of the 2010 National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Gansu province signed a strategic framework agreement with China Huadian Corporation on energy cooperation.

The Manila-based Asian Development Bank has received approval to provide a USD135 million loan to a green coal power demonstration project in Tianjin to help develop clean coal power system and reduce green house gas emissions and pollution in China.

From 2010, Beijing will invest at least CNY200 million each year in six major solar power projects.

Dong Xing, the vice governor of China's Guangdong province, announced at the recent International Consultative Conference on the Future Economic Development of Guangdong, that Guangdong will take a lead in piloting the development of a low carbon economy, which is expected to be a new growth point for the province.