The Big Data Joint Laboratory between the United Nations Development Programme in China and Baidu was launched to pioneer new methods and frameworks for using big data to support development goals.

Alstom recently inaugurated its new hydropower manufacturing facility in Tianjin.

The Chinese auto maker Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Company has announced that it will team up with Far East Golden Resources Group, to invest about CNY30 billion in a new plant in Hefei.

Citigroup and OAO Gazprom have signed a small but pioneering deal in China that may lay the foundation for a larger scale national market for carbon trading.

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.

As part of Toyota's worldwide recall of defective vehicles, Tianjin Toyota Motor Company has filed a report to China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, saying that it will start recalling 75,552 defective RAV4 cars in China from February 28, 2010.

Mei Dewen, the general manager of the China Beijing Environment Exchange, has announced the launch of the China Carbon Neutral Alliance in Beijing.