The law firm Cooley LLP recently polled 125 clean tech entrepreneurs, investors and legal advisors about China and clean tech.
In addition to focusing on education and clean energy, China is also seeking to shift from export-led growth to more domestic consumption supported by a growing service-sector economy.
While the United States may not be able to afford the scale of support for clean energy that China can, it can compete by focusing on what it has always done best: innovation.
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This would clean the air in China, which the Chinese want and are willing to pay for.
Also due to compete is Australia's Matthew Mitcham, who won the event in Beijing to deny China a clean sweep of golds.
Solar power, on the other hand, is considered a clean technology in which China has openly sought world prominence, or dominance, using public markets in the West in the process.
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Politicians and everybody else involved have to realize that America is playing catch-up because its dawdling has ceded much of the clean technology market to China, South Korea, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany.
Let us create a new international clean technology fund, which will help developing nations like India and China make greater use of clean energy sources.
China began its clean-up campaign in March last year with the creation of a high-profile committee charged with stamping out corruption in the sport.
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Despite the mounting evidence, many have dismissed the idea that the United States is competing in a "clean energy race" with China, or that it matters.
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With its desire to clean up air pollution, China could consume as much natural gas as the entire European Union by 2035, according to the report.
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Countries like China are investing in clean energy jobs and industries that should be here in America.
The Clean Air Task Force -- an environmental organization advancing clean technology in the United States and China -- is pivotal to Duke Energy efforts.
Among them: an agreement for the United States to assist China in improving its "clean coal technology" at its growing number of coal-fired power plans, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Though the story is not new, the article is the latest indication of the alacrity with which China has emerged as a clean energy powerhouse in the span of just a few years.
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President Barack Obama often points to the advances being made in China in touting his own clean-energy ambitions, arguing that the U.S. must move swiftly if it wants to keep abreast of its primary Asian competitor.
None of the resting workers yet know when they'll be going back to work, and some are now beginning to worry that their livelihoods may be sacrificed in China's bid to clean up its environment before it is too late.
Here in the heartland of clean tech, some people are worried about China.
China has targeted procurement policies for clean energy, and a variable feed-in tariff for wind power.
As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.
China believes in natural gas, clean coal and, most of all, nuclear power.
China believes in natural gas, clean coal and, most of all, nuclear.
There was no promise of a Clean Air Act or tough new powers for China's environmental authorities, just the promise to do better.
Today, our countries agreed to a joint initiative that will help China reduce air pollution and increase clean energy production, including through the use of American technology.
As long as countries like China keep going all-in on clean energy, so must we.
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Our economies, populations and infrastructure make the U.S. and China the two prime countries to be clean-tech leaders, if we choose.
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The boutique merchant banking firm specializes in cross-border transactions with a focus on assisting clean tech and energy-related companies expand into China and raise capital.
China is also moving rapidly toward renewable clean energy use.
One of the things that I discussed with the Mayor is how both cities can learn from each other on strategies around clean energy, because one of the issues that ties China and America together is how, with an expanding population and a concern for climate change, that we're able to reduce our carbon footprint.
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Indeed, China has seen the strongest increase in investment in clean technology worldwide and is already a leader in solar and wind technology.
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