Sentences with phrase «chinese cities»

It states that first - tier Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou fail to make the list of habitable cities even though they have commercial advantages.

While Albert maintains Toronto housing prices are still lower than other international cities such as New York, London, Tokyo and most major Chinese cities, he admits there is an affordability issue.

The multistage sample consisted of 1,749 households in 7 large Chinese cities (Lanzhou, Wuhan, Nanchang, Taiyuan, Guangzhou, Shenyang, and Chongqing).

Such a high percentage of working parents makes the performance of roles in both the work and family context crucial for most adults living in Chinese cities, and a concern for their wellbeing as they negotiate this balance in practice is timely.

OPPO which is known for big marketing promotions has started the OPPO R11 marketing campaign with the big hoarding at the important landmarks of all the major Chinese cities.

Tesla confirmed to TNW that it has reached an agreement with China Unicom to build 400 charging points in 120 Chinese cities and 20 superchargers in 20 cities.

This is interesting, since larger Chinese cities are already saturated, which means the growth will most likely stem from other regions.

In payment situations, HUAWEI Pay is the first in the industry to provide quick payment services to customers of 39 banks, and allows users in 6 Chinese cities to use their phone in place of a transportation card over NFC.

The team has also handled cases in many other Chinese cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Changzhou, Shenyang, Changchun, and Dalian.

«Satellite data, who needs it — we have «peer» reviewed paper covering some Chinese cities that establishes that the UHI is minimal»

Satellite data, who needs it — we have «peer» reviewed paper covering some Chinese cities that establishes that the UHI is minimal, please move on — this issue is settled, and no you don't get to see the Chinese data.

Though Andrews» study focused only on Beijing, it raises important questions about pollution data for other large Chinese cities where the «blue sky» standard is also used to report pollution data to the public.

By continuing to modernize waste treatment, help NGOs raise citizen awareness of the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), build more incentives for the industry to improve, reduce and recycle materials (think of Bill McDonough's idea), and better enforce standards for waste disposal, Chinese cities like Beijing have a shot at dealing with their growing trash pile — and making much more money than Beijing's freelance recyclers make now.

With a national «circular economy» policy behind them, Chinese cities like Beijing are attempting to improve their recycling infrastructure.

Beijing is one of 11 Chinese cities with BRT systems in operation.

Via the Oregonian, we learn that «The inky smoke belched by chimneys in Chinese cities such as Linfen and Datong contains mercury, a metal linked to fetal and child development problems.

«While it would be better in the long term, from the market side, it's hard to decentralize Chinese cities because we are still in the early stages of urbanization,» Yan Song, a professor at UNC - Chapel Hill who has consulted the Beijing government, told me recently.

The report pointed out the importance of aligning key efforts in Chinese cities with the country's ongoing ambitious national campaign — Healthy China 2030.

Meanwhile, China's summer of wet - bulb climate - change catastrophe almost certainly killed thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Chinese citizens... the world will learn about excess heat - deaths in Chinese cities right after TEPCO discloses the full sequence of events at Fukushima

High levels of air pollution have become commonplace in Beijing and other Chinese cities, especially during winter months when temperatures drop and more coal is burned when heating systems are switched on.

A fan of * MORE * discourse: Meanwhile, China's summer of wet - bulb climate - change catastrophe almost certainly killed thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Chinese citizens... the world will learn about excess heat - deaths in Chinese cities right after TEPCO discloses the full sequence of events at Fukushima

Now research shows the dual benefits of compact urban design and circular economy policies in Chinese cities.

Coal — the reigning king of China's energy sector — generates 74 percent of the country's electricity and is the main source of the staggering air pollution blanketing Chinese cities.

However, a Chinese government report recently found that only a tiny fraction of Chinese cities fully complied with pollution standards in 2013, while approving the construction of more than 100 million tonnes of new coal production capacity in 2013, according to a Reuters report.

We have all seen Chinese cities cloaked in particles, large and small that dramatically raise health - related problems.

Mass migration to Chinese cities has likely decreased the total number of premature deaths caused by air pollution.

But seeing, they haven't actually joined C40 yet, but seeing the mayor of Jinjiang in Beijing last month talking about this — a city that confounds all the expectations of Chinese cities, where it's being planned that over half of the space will green.

There are still other things Chinese cities can do at the margins, such as introducing the sorts of «congestion pricing» schemes — taxes on vehicles as they enter certain areas — that have worked wonders in places like London and Singapore.

The plans come as Chinese cities struggle with power shortages that have forced scheduled blackouts and required industries to close or shift production to weekends or other times when demand is weakest.

This past month, air pollution in Chinese cities has regularly been two, three, even four times this emergency threshold (and up to 40 times levels the WHO considers healthy).

The Guardian: Photographs of a smog - wreathed Tiananmen Square and the iconic headquarters of China Central Television dominated reports of Chinese pollution last year, but analysis shows nine other Chinese cities suffered more days of severe smog than the capital in 2013.

Commentary: Heating Chinese cities while enhancing air quality With the phase - out of coal - fired boilers progressing, China's central heating fuel mix is changing rapidly 21 December 2017

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Greehouse gas emissions from Chinese cities.

If so, northern Chinese cities could suffer severe drought.

This is the first time in history Chinese cities are committed to long - term emission reduction targets.

Certainly, the timing of such announcement was made more palatable on news that coal reserves in China have hit new highs after a summer of coal supply shortages that saw blackouts in various Chinese cities.

Dr. David Hon expands on his recent letter criticizing policies that forbid the use of E-bikes across large swathes of Chinese cities, aiming to keep the topic firmly on the table...

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It already has, as Chinese cities seem to be chasing after all the others in Asia.

But large Chinese cities are stuffed with cars today, not to mention in 10 years.

What has happend in LAmerica and in Asia is that so much car based infrastructure, car access shopping, and other facilities for the 20 % of Latin American city dwellings with cars or the 5 % of Asians with Cars (from a high of 20 % in Bangkok to less than 2 % in Chinese cities) without preserving options, security, speed, and environmental cleanliness for the majority not in cars.

Before The Flood feels like every other climate change documentary, full of spectacular sweeping panoramas of melting Arctic ice, burning rainforests, flooding South Pacific islands, dead coral reefs, and smoggy Chinese cities.

People in Chinese cities quite literally wash everything they wear every day, and don't hang their washing out, because of the soot in the air.

Scully expressed in a BBC interview his awe for the numerous art districts that have sprung up outside of Chinese cities, as well as the sheer space and potential of places like the 798 Art District and Caochangdi in the Beijing area — «They've got more galleries in Beijing than there are in Chelsea in New York City!»

Enormous white canvases with a bare tree were placed across 132 crosswalks in 15 Chinese cities.

What they saw inspired the Rubells to spend the next five years seeking out artists and gallerists in Beijing, Shanghai and far - flung Chinese cities.

Bound by their 50 x 50 cm paper and defined by their pencil planometrics, the evocative title of the series pays a debt to Frank Stella, but they also make nods to other abstract expressionists, notably Barnett Newman, to the earlier suprematist paintings of Kazimir Malevich, to Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, to ancient Chinese cities as squares, to Islamic caravanserai and Italian cloisters, to the houses within houses of Oswald Mathias Ungers, and even to the composition of Greek chorus and 1970s CBGB punk — that is to say, to all the good things in life.

Hero Entertainment is the second largest esports mobile operator in China and will help develop the esports stadiums across seven Chinese cities.

Flights have one layover in one of the Chinese cities and depends on chosen routing it may require longer layover.