At first glance, Jincheng appears to be a typical coal-mining city. But Jincheng is atypical, if a few other statistics are taken into account.
The eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has made obvious progress on pollution control.
An eco-industrial park will be built in Zhenjiang city, Jiangsu province, as a strategic cooperation project between the Chinese and Swiss governments.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection warned that looser local supervision led to a decline in efforts to control pollution in some parts.
The total output of China's energy saving and environmental protection industries is targeted to hit 4.5 trillion yuan by 2015.
A business promotion seminar on new energy industry in China's Nantong City of Jiangsu Province was held Friday in Osaka, western Japan.
Premier Wen Jiabao will outline China's policies on sustainable development when he addresses the UN conference.
China's fast growing civil society made a splash on Sunday at the Rio+20, by releasing the country's own report on its sustainable development records over the past 20 years.
China and the United States are strengthening ties in reducing carbon emissions through new agreements involving energy efficiency cooperation, despite recent trade disputes.
China has strengthened its fiscal support for its increasing forest area, launched a number of national ecological projects and implemented a nationwide compulsory tree-planting program.
Chinese private firms will join the China Going Green Dialogues, part of the Rio+20 in Brazil.
In fashion, sustainability is becoming the new black.