China, US work more closely on climate change

Environmental cooperation between China and the US has grown closer in recent months. The two major economies are finding ways to cooperate for common interest.

Clean energy and climate change have been high on the agenda of some  top US officials who visited China this year.

China and US have been seeing closer cooperation on environmental protection since the Obama Administration. They are finding more things in common than differences in dealing with climate change.

The Obama administration has brought a change in attitude, aimed at taking concrete action. And China has set a goal to focus more on new energy, and use it as a driving force for economic recovery.

Clean energy and climate change have been high on the agenda of some top US officials who visited China this year.