China Daily

With some of the its cleanest air in decades, Beijing is warming up to some of the pollution-cutting regulations officials have enacted during the Olympics. Some may become permanent.

To stem the loss of farmland to development, the Chinese government is raising taxes on non-farmed arable land by 500%.

Bike lanes will be required for all new roads built in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, according to government officials. The city is hoping to get more people out of cars and onto bikes.

With more than 300,000 new cars hitting the roads each year, the Chinese capital has a serious shortage of parking. The solution? More parking lots of course.

To encourage more motorists to take advantage of public transit, the city is planning to build free parking lots near new transit stations.

Plans for the Chinese capital's metro system fall just shy of 350 miles of track over 19 lines, which would surpass London's Underground by 2020.

An exhibition has opened in Beijing, highlighting the city's attempts to revamp their city planning in preparation for the 2008 Olympics.

After years of Beijing's growing middle class buying new flats on the city's outskirts, long commutes are encouraging people to move back into the city's center.

With private car ownership increasing, can the bicycle making a comeback in China?

With one of the densest central urban cores in China, Shanghai officials have decided to spread out its growing population in new satellite suburbs.

While the Beijing-Shanghai line has long been scraped, plans for a line from Shanghai to Hangzhou are still in play.

Aggressive steps were taken by China to restrain soaring housing prices and discourage real estate speculation.

An unchecked building blitz in China's largest cities is destroying the landscape of historic cities.

A new law passed in China's Legislature promises to boost the percentage of renewable energy used by utility operators.

Avant garde projects often fail to achieve harmony with Chinese culture.

The booming city of Shenzhen in South China plans to recruit thousands of experienced overseas planning professionals.

In an effort to encourage sustainable development China seeks to regulate tourism in the Three Gorges area.