THE CEO of Shenhua Energy takes an interview with PBS Frontline:

When people talk about China and coal, they think of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. What kind of plans do you have to address [that]?

It’s a good question. As a coal-based energy company, we have a lot of things to do. Not only the CO2 issue — we must make the environment better than before.

I mean, [in previous coal development here,] it was a desert — no trees or grassland. But over 10 to 20 years, we have planted a lot of trees, grassland, so that the forestation now has been increased to 70 percent. In our underground coal mines, we have a system to reuse the waters so we can save more than 85 to 90 percent of total waters. …

And in the western region, we have power plants’ cooling systems [using] wind, the air, so that we can save a lot of water. I invite you to pay visit to our coal mines. Seeing is believing…

So let me ask you this. When do you expect — cost aside — when could you capture and store all the carbon dioxide that your thousands of power plants are generating?

I cannot give you that prediction. The first thing is, it’s not a major business model. And globally, there is no successful large commercial example. So it’s not only us…

“There are debates in China, and sometimes they’re very fierce debates… One of the first deputies ever to vote no in a People’s Congress was Wu Qing.

“I twice voted no. I remember a man behind me who said in a very loud voice, ‘that’s the woman who cast dissenting votes.’ I didn’t look around. I thought he was a brat. Many people shook my hand when I left, saying ‘Wu Qing, you really make me feel democracy in China.’ ‘So why didn’t you vote against?’ I asked. ‘Well,’ they said, ‘it’s a long story.’”

A documentary looks at the party’s shaky but tight grip on power:

“Although there are hundreds of millions of workers and peasants, they don’t count. You can ignore them. You can also rob and exploit them. It’s not a problem. The most important thing is to get the powerful on your side.” — Kang Xiaoguang, Professor of Regional Economics and Politics

It isn’t easy, running China, with its 1.3 billion people and 56 officially recognized ethnic nationalities. It’s a vast mix of languages, living standards, beliefs and customs. Run it successfully, and you have a prosperous, innovative, powerful empire to rival any the world has seen. Make mistakes, and the chaos will be vast and terrible.

Travel guide Burt Wolf hears from Taiwan’s Luo Dexiu about the internal martial arts:

“A bigger circle is like one integration with everything, like your body movement, your power, your mind. And sometimes you’ll find your body rhythm becomes very peaceful and organized together. So this one can train you to become really the one, and trick out your body potential, some kind of spirit, some kind of energy… In every kind of thing, including martial arts, we always try to combine the tao… ‘Stick your hands’ is one of the Baguazhangde, a high level training way. They use the body to ring the temple, circle the temple, and to come out of your body the way the hand moves with, and train you sensitive. So two way, one use the arm, the sensitive way, in a circle, find out the opening, the weaker point, what point you can push him that he lose the balance. And another thing is that, sometimes, you have non-movement, the body movement find a balance, so hold of circle become the one. So this is the weak holder; small circle equal the bigger circle.”

A sneak peek at a segment on rapper Wang Xiaolei, featured on PBS’s Frontline documentary “Young & Restless in China.”

“Seen from the streets, the new China is an unforgiving place. Rapper Wang Xiaolei uses his music to express a dark view of China’s new boomtimes.”

A sneak-peek of PBS’s Frontline documentary “Young & Restless in China”