China has released new rules on ownership registration and monitoring of natural resources.
The July 23 announcement specifies that only companies that have been approved by the authorities will be allowed to survey for or extract resources, Liu Junyan, a Beijing-based senior climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace East Asia, said in a July 26 email.
“The policy maps out five years to complete basic registration of the resources in key regions, like the Yangtze River Basin, the rainforest in Hainan province, or the giant panda sanctuary,” Liu said.
After 2023 other regions will be added to ...
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