If there's one cliché about China, it's the world's factory: a massive nation of 1.4 billion people, many of them manufacturing goods for the rest of the world. But, as Tony Zhou explains, there's a much bigger plan, and that was only phase one.

It looks like an IKEA showroom, but it's not.

It's the 2010 Beijing Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Exhibition, a multi-day event for companies to show off their latest environmentally-friendly products. It's also the most recent in a series of Green events scheduled to take place in China.

On the floor, the two biggest brands in town are Philips and Panasonic, but even local Chinese companies are making a showing. And all of them are jumping on the bandwagon that they see as the next big industry of the 21st century.

In this section, dedicated to light bulbs, the companies push for longer and longer lifetimes, as well as higher and higher prices.

Ancius introduces the Chinese characters for “red”, and “green”.

Deforestation in developing countries is a well publicized occurrence, but what's less well known is that China is planting more trees than the rest of the world combined.

It looks green on the surface, but could this massive project be doing more harm than good?

Andrew Livingstone breaches the Great Green Wall of China.

SHANGHAI PUSHES “GREEN” VEHICLES
CHECK IT OUT
INDIVIDUALLY GREEN
WHO PAYS THE PIPER?
RICH MAN, POOR MAN
HOW IS CHINA'S POWER GENERATED?

 

In the first year after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, an average of almost 20,000 visitors toured the Olympic Park each day. But as memory of the Olympics faded so to did the number of visitors - to just a few hundred a day. Now, in a bid to encourage more visitors, tourism officials in Beijing have opened a new theme park near the Olympic Stadium. BON's Kelda Yuen has more on the how the city government hopes promoting a green world will mean more green for them.

Just a few decades ago,the use of products such as lipstick was frowned upon in China. But Chinese consumers are becoming increasingly image conscious as they grow wealthier.

Made-in-China exports to the US include just about everything under the sun. Soon, Chinese automobiles will be added to the list. But they're not going to be like most cars in America—these cars are going to be environmentally friendly. Susan Tart has the latest in China's efforts to become green.