Welcome To Baoding (China): The Greenest City In The World

[IndyPragmatist]

In China's rushes to increase energy production for the millions that flock to its cities, Baoding has emerged as the first carbon positive city in the world.

Southwest of Beijing, Baoding began billing itself as a renewable energy center in 2002 following the success of Yingli Green Energy Co. -- a company founded in 1987 that expanded into a major producer of China's solar panels.

In the past nine years more than 170 alternative energy companies have opened in Baoding using solar power, bio-diesel, and wind to run their operations.

Factories here make turbine blades for wind farms in Texas and photo-cells for Portugal's solar array, the largest in the world.


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