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Beyond Traffic Lights: China Is Already "Light" Years Ahead of the West

An article in the IHT last week raised China's billion-dollar, billion-ton-of-CO2 question: how will a country known for its inimitable capacity for imitation manage to switch to an economy based on innovation and invention? Note that the question is not... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Thu, Oct 30 2008

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13 Jul 07 visit China to invest 620 bln yuan to expand urban rail systems  »  People's Daily China will spend 620 billion yuan (82 billion U.S. dollars) building subways and urban railways in 15 major cities in the next ten years to ease traffic jams, according to the Ministry of Construction. Around 1,700 kilometers of light ...
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