Green energy switch urged in Beijing varsities

BEIJING - The capital city's environmental watchdog has urged the country's two leading universities to retire their coal boilers and use green energy.

"All of the capital universities in six urban districts are now ready to phase out coal boilers except Peking University and Tsinghua University," Du Shaozhong, deputy director of Beijing municipal environmental protection bureau, told China Daily through a telephone interview on Sunday.

Though the two universities had earlier told the local media they would speed up the switch to green energy, Du said he could not rest assured until the concerned varsities took "practical actions" in that direction.