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The article offers information on the decrease in the shale gas output target by China due to lack of environmental regulation and impact studies as of January 2015. It mentions the views of Xiaoliang Yang, research analyst at the World Resources Institute (WRI), on the lack of regulations for fracking products and safe disposal of wastewater from fracking. Topics discussed include shale gas resources in China, fracking equipments and development service, and natural gas imports in China.

Information on the United Nations Summit on Climate Change on September 22, 2009 is presented. It features two of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, the U.S. and China, where each country presidents voiced support on a new climate-change treaty. President Hu Jintao of China pledged that they will cut their carbon dioxide intensity by 2020. Moreover, U.S. President Barack Obama reaffirmed their commitment to tackle climate change in the Copenhagen talks in December 2009.

The article reports on the plan of Guangzhou, China's third-largest city, to evict 119 manufacturing companies, including 48 chemical plants, by 2010. The state media said that evicted firms have either violated national or local environmental protection standards or have seriously affected living conditions with waste emissions or loud noise. Fifty-three state-owned businesses will be relocated to industrial parks with the help of a $28 million government subsidy.

The article focuses on the census of pollution sources to be conducted by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) in China. SEPA plans to determine the sources of industrial, agricultural and residential pollution throughout the country. It made a promise that the survey will not be used as a performance assessment tool to encourage officials to provide data. The survey is considered to be significant to enable policy-making and support the environmental control management.

The article reports that the Chinese State Council has released a three-year master plan to address the country's increasing problem of environmental degradation. The plan includes spending over $85 billion on measures to control water pollution, $80 billion on air pollution and $28 billion on solid waste management. The council is committed to start auditing local government's performance of enforcing standards by 2008.

The article reports that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao talked about China's environmental emissions and energy efficiency targets in his speech at the opening session of the 2007 meeting of the National People's Congress. Jiabao admitted that China failed to meet its 2006 targets and promised to fulfill its targets for 2010, including control of economic growth and closure of small coal-fired power plants and substandard factories.

The article reports on the statement of Zhou Shengxian, minister of China's State Environmental Protection Agency, that most chemical plants located along Yangtze and Yellow Rivers are not being operated safely. The minister commented that these plants are located in inappropriate location and posed an environmental risk. These plants also failed to comply environmental guidelines.