重型车在京加国四 出京只能“喝”国二 - 新华/北京日报 | English summary: Beijing trucks meeting new Nat'l 4 fuel standards cannot "drink" the Nat'l 2 and 3 grade fuels outside Beijing. Taking heavy trucks from to National 4 diesel standards from National 3 standards is facing more delay (after delay of 2+ years already). The 300K heavy trucks in Beijing are only 6% of capitol's 5.1 million vehicles and create half the capitol's emissions. Going from Nat'l 2 to Nat'l 3 cuts fine particulate emissions 50%, and from Nat'l 3 to Nat'l 4 (as Beijing wants to do) cuts another 90%. [So that would mean that replacing all 300K heave trucks with one's using Nat'l 4 diesel would cut vehicle emissions in Beijing 40%]. One problem Beijing truckers meeting Nat'l 4 standards are facing is that they cannot refuel outside of Beijing because it will damage their National 4 compliant equipment.  Going from Nat'l 2 to Nat'l 3 was a jump from mechanical to electronic control and from Nat'l 3 ot Nat'l 4 adds on electronic emissions control. Some weaker companies are still stuck at "fake National 3" - so, basically level 2.  Even competitively sound trucking companies have grown accustomed to dragging their feet and face rising costs, not just for the equipment, but for the fuel. Nat'l 3 diesel is 4 mao more per litre than Nat'l 2. Now add on that refiner's upgrade cost to get to Nat'l 4: 5.7 bn RMB to upgrade 1mm tonne per year refinery. | Original Article Intro: 今年五六月份，环保部一再强调重型车国四标准不能推迟，但汽车工业协会和工信部则坚持车油要同步。目前，商用车企是否为排放标准升级做好了准备？中汽协相关负责人日前表示，车企已经做好了国三向国四升级的技术储备，在过渡期内完全可以实现产品的切换。　不过，记者从多家商用车企业获悉，国三向国四的过渡并不轻松，因为国四标准是柴油车污染防治的重要门槛，不仅污染物排放大幅削减，污染控制技术也必须实现飞跃。“国二到国三，是从机械控制到电子控制，而从国三到国四，不仅要有电控系统，还要装备后处理技术系统。”业内人士透露，很多竞争力不强的商用车企，实际还停留在国二车型的技术水平，通过弄虚作假的手段获得生产资质，这也是饱受诟病的“假国三”现象。即便是实力较强的商用车企，对何时停产国三重型柴油车也徘徊观望，因为排放标准的升级已经“习惯性”延迟。这导致车企没有足够动力进行升级改造。根据工信部通知，7月1日起已停止国三重型柴油车新公告的申报，这意味着商用车企必须尽快消化处理旧车型，并加快国四新车的研发和投放。

China and EU reach deal on solar panel trade - Al Jazeera | ... minimum panel price would be equal to 56 cents per watt of power they produced.This regime would apply to the first seven gigawatts of solar panels imported, with any above that threshold incurring an average anti-dumping tariff of 47.6 percent, the sources said. Floor on prices and ceiling on quantity

• EU, China resolve solar dispute - their biggest trade row by far - Reuters |After six weeks of talks, the EU's trade chief and his Chinese counterpart sealed the deal over the telephone, setting a minimum price for panels from China near spot market prices... EU consumption was about 15 gigawatts in 2012, and China will be able to provide 7 gigawatts without being subject to tariffs under the deal, the EU source said.

• Europe and China Agree to Settle Solar Panel Fight - NYTimes |...The European solar manufacturers who lobbied for tougher action against the Chinese exporters on Saturday promised to sue over the settlement. The agreement “is contrary in every respect to European law,” said Milan Nitzschke, the president of EU ProSun, an industry group. A minimum price of 0.55 to 0.57 euros was at the level of “the current dumping price for Chinese modules,” the group said in a statement.

Tesla goes to China - San Jose Mercury News | a coal-fired, luxury-branded China dream car | Its first showroom in mainland China, scheduled to open later this year, will be in central Beijing at the exclusive Parkview Green mall, a gleaming, pyramid-shaped plaza designed with sky-gardens and atria spaces. It is the first mixed-use commercial project in China to be certified LEED Platinum for its energy-efficient design, and Tesla's 8,000-square-foot showroom will be roughly three times larger than its U.S. showrooms...."Huge risk," said Theodore O'Neill of Litchfield Hills Research. "I don't see the China market as having any meaningful impact for Tesla's numbers over the next 18-24 months. I'm far more concerned that the Chinese will take a Model S, tear it apart and knock it off."

China's Bad Earth - WSJ | Industrialization has turned much of the Chinese countryside into an environmental disaster zone ..."Nothing comes from these plants," says the farmer, pointing past the irrigation pond to a handful of stunted rice shoots. She grows the rice, which can't be sold because of its low quality, only in order to qualify for payments made by the factory owners to compensate for polluting the area. But the amount is only a fraction of what she used to earn when the land was healthy, she says. The plants look alive, "but they're actually dead inside."

21 dead as floods strike quake-hit Chinese province - SCMP | At least 21 people have been killed and four reported missing in floods and mudslides that hit a Chinese province where at least 95 others died this week in twin earthquakes, state media reported on Saturday.

China betting on overland energy-supply lines - Japan Times | China’s strategy to diversify supply routes for its rapidly rising energy imports has just taken a major step forward.On July 15, natural gas from Myanmar (aka Burma) started to flow along a recently completed pipeline that stretches for 1,100 kilometers from the sea coast, through jungle and mountains, to Kunming in southwest China.