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Article: China greening
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- September 1, 2008
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Thomas L. Friedman The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
09-01-2008
China greening
Byline: Thomas L. Friedman The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: OPINION
GUANGZHOU, China --
I had the pleasure the other day of visiting the delightfully named Zhuhai Guohua Wonderful Wind Power Exploitation Co. in Zhuhai, on the southern coast of China.
It's a good news/bad news story. The good news was that the Chinese engineers showed me their control room, which has a giant glass window that looks out onto their 21 wind turbines that crown the peaks of a nearby mountain. "How nice," I thought. "China's really starting to go green."
But as my eye drifted just to the left ...