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Green challenges and solutions for the electronic information industry

Peng, Guo Chao (2011) Sustainable development of China’s electronic information industry: green challenges and solutions. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Policy and Development in China. The International Conference on Industrial Policy and Development in China, 29-30 July 2011, Singapore.

Under the national strategy of a “let informatisation drive industrialisation, and let industrialisation promote informatisation”, China’s electronic information industry has achieved continuous and dramatic development during the last three decades. It has now become one of the most essential pillar industries for China’s national economy. However, severe pollution issues and environmental challenges emerge at different stages throughout the lifecycle of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) products, from their design, development, and manufacturing to use and to disposal. Evidence shows that much effort has been put to increase industrial profit margin, improve indigenous innovation, and overcome the negative effects of the 2008 financial crisis on China’s electronic information industry. Nevertheless, environmental issues have traditionally received less attention from industrial manufacturers and users of ICT products (e.g. CEOs, managers and employees of companies, and individual citizens). China is still in its infant stage in building up a green electronic information industry. This paper discusses and highlights the importance and impacts of current environmental challenges faced by the electronic information industry, as well as to propose the implementation of Green ICT as a key strategy to ensure environmental-friendly use of ICT equipments and thus maintain sustainable development of this industry in the long term.

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Jacqueline Nivard

Jacqueline Nivard, Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine

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Chinese and EU Energy security

IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies) Newsletter 62 (2012)

China and the European Union have common vulnerabilities and interests in the areas of energy, environmental protection, and sustainability.
In this edition of the Focus, Guest editors Mehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang ask how they should proceed with regards to mutual cooperation.

  • p. 21-23 Mehdi P. Amineh and Yang Guang introduce 11 essays looking into the energy security challenges for the 21st century.
  • p. 24-25 Robert Cutler analyzes post-Cold War geopolitics in Central Eurasia in relation to the emerging ‘complex system’ of hydrocarbon networks.
  • p. 25-26 Frank Umbach uses a comparative perspective to analyze the contradictory strategic trends and dev- elopments in Central Asia and the Caspian Region.
  • p. 27 Given the important role that Iran plays in China’s foreign energy security policy, Yu Guoqing explores China’s energy relations with the Islamic Republic.
  • p. 28 Zhao Huirong and Wu Hongwei explore the significance of the Caspian Region for China’s energy security and the prospects for cooperation.
  • p. 29 Chen Mo discusses China’s external relations with emerging oil producer Angola in the context of its overall energy supply security strategy.
  • p. 30 Sun Hongbo analyzes the energy ties between China and Venezuela which in comparison with other LA countries stands out as a unique example.
  • p. 31 Raquel Shaoul evaluates Japan’s energy security supply strategies, outcomes, and prospects throughout the building of its relation- ship with Iran.
  • p. 32-33 Daniel Scholten analyzes the relationship between energy transition gover- nance paradigms and renewable innovation pro- cesses in the Netherlands.
  • p. 34 Li Xiaohua examines China’s policy towards the development of a solar energy industry.
  • p. 35 Mairon G. Bastos Lima examines the development of the Brazilian biofuel industry in recent decades and associated geopolitical challenges.
  • p. 36 Edward Vermeer provides an analysis of China’s hydropower development and the associated economic and ecological challenges.

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Jacqueline Nivard

Jacqueline Nivard, Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine

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