Hongsibu

One reason for Beijing's newfound urgency in chipping away at that staggering level of emissions can be found in the dusty, unprepossessing town of Hongsibu.[…]

The resettlement project is the most ambitious of its kind in China and perhaps the world. Officials see it as a triumph of government benevolence and engineering. “Its a miracle in poverty reduction, to take a piece of wasteland and transform it,” said Zheng Yaliang, Communist party secretary for Hongsibu. “Very few countries could do this.”