Chinese Premier Announces Clean Energy Push
April 22, 2014 at 17:31 PM EDT
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has restated the government’s plans to aggressively build clean energycapacity throughout the country in an effort to reduce air pollution. Li’s announcement, which he made on the central government’s website, comes as major Chinese cities have been suffering from catastrophic levels of smog. Li’s statement laid out plans to build new solar, wind, nuclear and hydropower plants.