According to the 1999 Report on the State of the Environment in China, issued by the State Environmental Protection Administration, in 1999 the country invested 82.32 billion yuan in environmental pollution control, accounting for 1% of the gross domestic product (GDP) for the year. In general,...

Government measures to protect the ecology and environment from the effects of the Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River, China, are discussed, and the results of monitoring activities are reported. The main problems are: (1) decreasing forest area; (2) erosion; (3) landslides occurring more...

A mobile test platform was developed for the inspection of tractors in China. The accuracies of braking torque, axle weight and driving speed were 0.1 kg.m, 0.1 kg, and 0.01 km/h, respectively. The time required for inspecting 1 tractor was 3 min. More than 150 units could be inspected every day....

Recent data in the literature about volatilization of pesticides from soils or crops into the atmosphere are reviewed. On the day of application, pesticide volatilization rates ranged from 0.1 g/ha/h for prometon to 80 g/ha/h for fonofos. In general, pesticides are volatilized from plant surfaces...

A joint Chinese - Dutch 2-year programme to clean up and rehabilitate Lake Tai, China, in 2 phases using the integrated water resources management (IWRM) principle is reviewed and its aims and approach are outlined. Lake Tai is located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and the municipality of...

Key agricultural and rural development policy issues faced by China in the first years of the 21st century are discussed. Subjects include: (1) reform of rural fiscal policy and public services; (2) grain marketing and grain-reserve management reform; (3) trade liberalization and poverty; (4)...

The prospects for maintaining or increasing high maize and wheat yields with lower N fertilizer and irrigation use on the North China Plain was examined near Beijing from 1999 to 2003. In the current double cropping system, winter wheat is sown after ploughing in Oct. and harvested in mid-June,...

A summary environmental impact assessment of the Tianjin Wastewater Treatment and Water Resources Protection Project in China was conducted in 1999. The Beicang Sewerage District of Tianjin Municipality is the only district with rapid industrial and commercial development and without wastewater...

During 1996-1997, soil samples were collected from a field near Newcastle, UK, to determine the special variability of soil physical properties and to assess the prospects for precision farming. The samples were spaced on a 20 x 40-m grid. It was found that two-thirds of the field area had soil...

From 1998 to 2002, fieldwork was carried out in Mid-Hill region of Nepal to study the risk of environmental contamination due to pesticide use in subtropical environments, with special emphasis on malathion, dimethoate, metalaxyl, and fenvalerate. The main hydrological processes in "khet"...