China has stopped fixing annual targets for saving energy and controlling pollution. Instead, from 2007 onwards, the country will have five-year targets. The move came after the country'

mines found in tibet: Chinese geologists have found 600 possible mining sites on the Tibetan plateau for mining iron, copper, lead, zinc and other metal ores. "Once the mines are developed they will greatly relieve the strain on China's existing resources,' said Zhuang Yuxun, lead geologist. One of the biggest potential reserves is an estimated 500 million tonnes of rich iron ore in the Nixiong area, close to the centre of the plateau that covers a vast area inhabited mostly by Tibetans.

The Chinese government has issued its latest roster of jobs entitled to official state recognition. In are career consultants, jewelry evaluators, coffee baristas, sports agents and digital video

China's environment agency recently formulated a policy that expands the nature and variety of environmental petitions that it can handle. The policy comes after the country's State Environmental

• China refuted a recent US National Academy of Sciences report, which notes that a new strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus has emerged in southern China. • Argentine President Nestor

china has promised massive financial aid to Africa. At a two-day meet in Beijing, attended by 35 of the 53 African nations, Chinese president Hu Jintao pledged to double China's aid to Africa from its 2006 level by 2009. Speaking at the conference's opening on November 4, he promised us $3 billion in loans, us $2 billion in export credits and a us $5 billion fund to encourage Chinese investment in Africa.

green gdp: According to the China Green National Accounting Study Report 2004, the country suffered economic losses to the tune of US $64 billion

• African country Chad has ordered two major foreign oil firms, US firm ChevronTexaco and Malaysia's Petronas, responsible for 60 per cent of its oil production, to quit the country in a row

• The Chinese government has postponed an auction that would have allowed foreign companies to bid for licences to hunt wild animals following a public backlash. The auction would have allowed

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