“China will continuously work on striking a balance between developing its economy and promoting energy conservation and emissions reductions by rolling out more detailed plans and policies to guide targeted industries and enterprises and progressing in adopting and developing clean […]
The 2021 Dasgupta Report provides a much-needed roadmap to correct flawed economic tools by valuing Nature as an asset. A test of whether markets will follow this roadmap involves quickly expanding voluntary carbon sequestration markets. Editor’s Note: Fundamentally, the Dasgupta […]
By Pan Jiahua, Professor of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences University, with assistance from Yang Xinran. Almost every strategic study on environment and development solicited by the Chinese government refers to ‘ecological civilization’. Successive presidents have connected their names […]
At the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September last year, China announced that it would aim to achieve peak CO2 emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. This is a major […]
At Chongming Island just outside Shanghai, China’s most populous city, at a new commercial glass greenhouse harvested their first batch of produce at the site in May. The facility is one of dozens sprouting up on the outskirts of China’s […]
In September 2015, China’s President Xi Jinping attended the UN Sustainable Development Summit and joined other world leaders to adopt Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. China attaches great importance to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda […]
In a 2020 scientific paper in Science, archaeologist Dongju Zhang’s research team, of Lanzhou University, reported the first discovery of Denisovan ancient DNA found outside the Denisova Cave.** Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was gleaned not from fossils, but from the cave […]
This week, Chinese authorities have stressed the need for solid efforts to safeguard the country’s grain security. This edition of Xinhua Commentary, explains why the country’s food security matters and how it is being secured. Click link below to watch […]
The plight of sea turtles Sea turtles aren’t just the marine world’s largest reptile. They are one of the oldest surviving forms of life, having lived alongside the dinosaurs. Sea turtles return to the ocean on hatching, and spend their […]
In September last year, China released an action plan to restore the country’s 18,800 hectares of mangrove forests and plant another 9,050 hectares over the next five years. China has begun implementing an action plan to restore the country’s 18,800 […]
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