During the U.S.- China Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum, Chinese home appliances maker Haier Group and U.S.-based Honeywell signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the development and promotion of low-emission, high energy-efficiency products and solutions.

British retail chain operator Tesco Plc recently announced that it established a partnership with Lenovo Group to develop a green IT project in China.

Qingdao Haier, the Chinese home appliance and electronics maker, the company will build a new energy-saving refrigerator project via its wholly-owned subsidiary in Hefei.

About 100 companies from China have jointly established a security-focused Green Mobile Phone Alliance in Shanghai.

Chinese telecom operator China Unicom's Beijing branch has recently launched a promotion by providing free trials of broadband "green" accounts to help protect Chinese youth from harmful information.

Baidu Wireless, a service of Chinese search engine Baidu, has signed a proposal letter with about a hundred of mobile internet service providers in China — including Sina.com — on creating a green mobile Internet.

Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp has announced that it will launch a mobile phone product with a solar panel in China in early February 2010.

Siemens AG said it had signed a range of new orders worth about CNY2 billion with Chinese firms and its environmental business accounted for a significant proportion of those deals.

A letter of intent has been signed between Yandu District of Yancheng in Jiangsu province and the China Electronics Enterprises Association at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the building of an eco-friendly electronic industrial park in Yandu.

Global IT giant IBM has turned its eyes to China's new energy industry.

Bamboo from a forest in Jiangxi will soon be part of some of Dell's computer packaging used around the world.

China's top mobile communication services provider China Mobile has signed a commitment agreement with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to save energy.

China's first Children and Network Research Lab has been formally established in Shanghai.

In response to the "Protecting Children in Cyberspace" theme adopted by the International Telecommunication Union for this year's World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, Shanghai Telecom has launched an initiative to create a "green" online environment for teenagers.

Cisco and China's Tsinghua University have jointly set up a laboratory for green technology.