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		<title>mep website redesign and datacenter problems</title>
		<link>http://www.livefrombeijing.com/2009/11/mep-website-redesign-and-datacenter-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Environmental Protection unveiled a new Chinese website about a week or so ago.  The English version appears unchanged for now. This news would probably not be blog-worthy except that the datacenter now seems a little buggy, causing two problems:
1) The Greenpeace Beijing API widget that I have on the top right of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.mep.gov.cn/">Ministry of Environmental Protection</a> unveiled a new Chinese website about a week or so ago.  The <a href="http://english.mep.gov.cn/">English version</a> appears unchanged for now. This news would probably not be blog-worthy except that the <a href="http://datacenter.mep.gov.cn/">datacenter</a> now seems a little buggy, causing two problems:</p>
<p>1) The <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/china/en/campaigns/air-pollution/beijing-air-pollution-index">Greenpeace Beijing API widget</a> that I have on the top right of this blog isn&#8217;t fetching daily data anymore. (I&#8217;ve been in touch with the developers and I know they are working on it.)</p>
<p>2) The datacenter&#8217;s query function for past air quality data doesn&#8217;t quite work right; data queries return past data different from the date range entered. I hope and presume this will be fixed soon.</p>
<p>After the redesign, the presentation of API on the MEP homepage is now done in the <a href="http://www.livefrombeijing.com/2008/10/more-on-the-datacenter/">datacenter analysis format</a>, as opposed to the old list format (still used on the English site).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.livefrombeijing.com/wp-content/uploads/images/new-mep-page.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-637" title="new mep page" src="http://www.livefrombeijing.com/wp-content/uploads/images/new-mep-page-400x213.jpg" alt="new mep page" width="400" height="213" /></a></p>
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		<title>MEP org chart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The English-language org chart on MEP&#8217;s website is outdated, so I made a new one:

Update: pdf version now hosted by CELB. (Thanks, Charlie!)
Sources: http://www.mep.gov.cn/dept/jgzn/gszn/;MEP Organizational Rules, translated by CELB / Squire, Sanders &#38; Dempskey L.L.P.
Note: I translated a few items differently from the CELB/SSD document. Notably:
政策法规司, CELB/SSB translated as &#8220;Legislation Department,&#8221; but I used &#8220;Department [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The English-language org chart on MEP&#8217;s website is outdated, so I made a new one:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.livefrombeijing.com/wp-content/uploads/images/MEP-Structure.jpg"><img src="http://www.livefrombeijing.com/wp-content/uploads/images/MEP-Structure-400x276.jpg" alt="MEP Structure" title="MEP Structure" width="400" height="276" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-282" /></a><br />
<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Update: </span><a href="http://www.chinaenvironmentallaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/mep-structure.pdf">pdf version</a> now hosted by <a href="http://www.chinaenvironmentallaw.com/">CELB</a>. (Thanks, Charlie!)</p>
<p>Sources: <a href="http://www.mep.gov.cn/dept/jgzn/gszn/">http://www.mep.gov.cn/dept/jgzn/gszn/</a>;<br /><a href="http://www.chinaenvironmentallaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/mep-organizational-rules-cn-en.pdf">MEP Organizational Rules, translated by CELB / Squire, Sanders &amp; Dempskey L.L.P.</a></p>
<p>Note: I translated a few items differently from the CELB/SSD document. Notably:</p>
<p>政策法规司, CELB/SSB translated as &#8220;Legislation Department,&#8221; but I used &#8220;Department of Policies, Laws, and Regulations&#8221;;<br />科技标准司, CELB/SSB translated as &#8220;Scientific and Technological Standard Department,&#8221; but I used &#8220;Department of Science, Technology, and Standards.&#8221;<br />环境监察局, CELB/SSB translated as &#8220;Environmental Monitoring Bureau,&#8221; but I used &#8220;Bureau of Environmental Supervision / Monitoring.&#8221;</p>
<p>Comments on this?</p>
<p>For reference, the old, outdated org chart is <a href="http://english.mep.gov.cn/About_SEPA/Institutional_structure/200707/P020080318428876879466.pdf">here</a>.</p>
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