At the end of March, the news that a volunteer for an non-governmental environmental protection organization had blackmailed a man caught fishing illegally focused attention on the organization and management of China's voluntary bodies.
The drive to raise the number of volunteer workers in China has seen their recruitment and management become a challenge for many organizations.
Monitoring procedures for all medical and industrial sources of radioactivity will be strengthened by authorities in Jiangsu province.
In 1954, China had its first accident involving radioactive material. From 1954 to 1987, human error, including poor management and lack of professional expertise, caused 84.64 percent of such accidents, according to Fan Shengen, an expert on radiation prevention with the health ministry. Other factors, including technical faults, accounted for less than 20 percent.
The discovery of unexploded wartime shells often makes national headlines, but for residents of Dunhua city, in the northeastern province of Jilin, it's a commonplace event and most people seem almost inured to it.
Guan Yimin is fully aware of the dangers posed by armaments discarded by the Japanese in 1945. He lost his left hand, the forefinger of the right, and the sight in one eye at age 11, when a shell with which he was playing exploded. "My classmates found several small shells buried in the soil and gave two to me. I played with one of them and it went off. I lost consciousness, and when I awoke, I was in the hospital," said the 52-year-old from Daqiaoxi village in Dunhua city, Jilin province.
Residents of Haerba-Ling, a small village close to a military base in the Haerba Mountains of Jilin province where chemical weapons discarded by Japanese forces are decommissioned and buried, expressed deep concern about the local environment and their livelihoods. With just 470 residents, it's one of the poorest villages in Dunhua city.
As he carefully raised the lid of a long, boat-shaped wooden coffin discovered at an ancient burial site in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Liao Zhaoyu joked to his colleagues that they had discovered one of the fabled giants of Chinese legend.
When Reheman Amut worked in 1993, he never imagined that he would still be at his post 21 years later. The 42-year-old from Kuqa county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has spent half his life as a guardian of the Kizilgaha Beacon tower.
The airborne pollution that has shrouded Beijing in recent years and made headlines worldwide has long been a major concern for the city's residents, but now the problem has taken on an international flavor as foreign visitors shun the Chinese capital.
The rolling waves and invigorating winds that caress the sandy Yefengzhai beach in Xiamen are well-known tourist attractions in the coastal city in Fujian province.
Although wave power is generally regarded as a clean, renewable source of energy, people should be aware of the possible negative environmental effects, according to a leading scientist.
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