With economic development and the change of industrial structure, industrial relocation is an inevitable trend. In the process of industrial relocation, environmental externality and social cost could occur due to market failure and government failure. Little attention has been paid to this...

In the past three decades, Chinese electricity industry has experienced a series of regulatory reforms serving different purposes at different stages. In 2002, the former vertically integrated electricity utility - the State Power Corporation (SPC) – was divested and the generation sector was...

Residential energy consumption (REC) is the second largest energy use category (10%) in China and urban residents account for most of the REC. Understanding the underlying drivers of variations of urban REC thus helps to identify challenges and opportunities and provide advices for future policy...

Mitigating climate change has become an essential issue of global concern, with the development of renewable energy being a meaningful way to do so. Subsidy policies have played a vital role in promoting renewable energy development. However, considering the limited number of subsidies,...

This paper analyzes China's policy approach to renewable energies and assesses how effectively China has met the ideal of appropriate interactions between renewable energy policy and renewable energy industrial policy. First we briefly discuss the interactions between these two policies. Then we...

The asymmetry of Chinese coal and electricity pricing reforms leads to serious conflict between coal suppliers and electricity utilities. Electricity utilities experience significant losses as a result of conflict: severe coal price fluctuations, and uncertainty in the quantity and quality of...

Microplastics (MPs) pollution in agricultural soil threatens soil quality and human health which has attracted extensive attention worldwide. However, little information is available on appropriate extraction methods for different typical agricultural soils. In this study, an experiment was...

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are promising supports for the synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles (NM NPs) with controllable sizes and dispersities. However, it is still challenging to synthesize COFs using green and efficient routes. Herein, COFs (TpMA) were prepared by ball milling,...

Analyzing and modelling the relationship between particle size and size distribution of engineered nanoparticles (NPs) in vivo represents an important challenge to properly assess the environmental fate and effects of NPs. This study used single-particle ICP-MS to investigate how three sizes of...

It is critical for China to aggressively promote coal substitution to achieve the "carbon neutral" goal. Promoting natural gas (NG) is an effective way to reduce coal consumption. Meanwhile, developing carbon sequestration (CS) technology will accelerate the process of carbon neutrality. Hence,...