September 2021
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Philosophy of green growth has taken root in China
China’s central authorities plan to ramp up economic compensation to areas where development is strictly prohibited due to environmental protection under a red line system, a recent guideline said. The country will introduce a differentiated compensation mechanism to reform its reward policy for key areas in ecological conservation, according to the guideline, which was issued Continue reading
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China makes breakthrough in high-level radioactive waste disposal technique
China’s first high-level radioactive liquid waste disposal equipment, capable of melting waste into glass, has been officially put into use in Guangyuan, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on Saturday, making China one of the few countries in the world to have acquired such a technique. Chinese experts believed that the technique could have been a better Continue reading
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China to develop new ultra-high-speed trains and commercial airplanes
China vowed on Monday to strengthen research and development into cutting-edge and disruptive technologies in the transport sector, and carry out studies of new types of vehicles such as ultra-high-speed trains and commercial airplanes. The plan was put forward in a guideline issued jointly by the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Science and Continue reading
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China shows willingness in cooperating with US on climate issue
US realizes cooperation with China indispensable: Analysts US climate envoy John Kerry on 1-2 September 2021 made his second visit to China inside five months under China’s invitation, at a time when the bilateral relationship has hit a nadir not seen in decades. China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced on Tuesday that Kerry would visit China Continue reading
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China prepares to test thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor
Shared by The Red Enviromentalist to China Environment on FB from Nature, 10 Sept 2021. Original Nature article shared here. If China’s experimental reactor is a success it could lead to commercialization and help the nation (and the world) meet its climate goals. Scientists are excited about an experimental nuclear reactor using thorium as fuel, Continue reading
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China adds 268 wild plant species to its protected list
Another 268 plants have been added to China’s List of Wild Plants under State Priority Conservation, highlighting the central authorities’ resolve to protect the country’s biodiversity. The list, released by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Wednesday, now covers 455 wild plants. Fifty-four species, including Pinus squamata (Qiaojia Continue reading
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Southeast Asia’s Most Ambitious Project: Kunming-Singapore Railway
The new Kunming-Singapore railway, a massive network of railways that is under-construction. The huge rail network will connect China, Singapore, and the rest of the mainland countries of Southeast Asia. Note, according to ASEAN Today : “Plans to build a multi-billion-dollar high-speed railway linking Singapore and Kuala Lumpur have been officially canceled, according to a Continue reading
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China triples year-on-year New Energy Vehicle sales
New energy vehicle (NEV) ownership exceeds 6 million in China. The number of newly registered new energy vehicles in the first half of the year was a record high of 1.103 million, an increase of 774,000 units or 234.92 percent compared with the same period last year. Compared with the first half of 2019 the Continue reading
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First satellite tracking of wild snow leopards in China yields results
Chinese researchers say they have made “breakthrough” findings of the behavior of rare snow leopards after months of tracking them in northwest China using satellite technology. After gaining prior approval from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Qilian Mountain National Nature Reserve together with the Wildlife Research Institute of Beijing Forestry University launched satellite Continue reading
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China: solar panels turn desert into sheep grazing land
As China accelerates its shift toward clean energy, a photovoltaic power generation park has been built in the northwest of China’s Qinghai Province. Desertification used to mean animal husbandry was unsustainable in this part of China a decade ago. But now, people and their animals are returning. Some of the world’s largest solar farms, located Continue reading
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Famous Japanese scientist relocates research team to Shanghai
Pioneering Discoveries for a Cleaner Planet – Professor Akira Fujishima Japanese mainstream media “Mainichi Shimbun” on September 2 reported that a leading figure in the field of “photocatalysis”, Japanese scientist Professor Akira Fujishima, had led his research team to join full-time the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Professor Fujishima has been nominated for Continue reading
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China’s “Green Roof” Revolution
High on the rooftops of Beijing are hundreds of thousands of plants. But these are no ordinary gardens. This vegetation is designed to lower the temperature of the city, reduce flooding and lower energy consumption. This is China’s Green Roof Revolution. The first green roofs were created in China in the 1960s. But in recent Continue reading
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Villager plants ‘floating rice’ in Guizhou fishpond
Science and technology of agriculture is becoming more and more interesting. China has a large water area. The cultivation of floating rice combined with fish aquaculture is being promoted. This new agricultural model is showing the potential to bring great value to the increase in food production and income for farmers. (ECNS) — Lu Xiangrong, Continue reading
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China’s “Green Roof” Revolution
Published 2021/09/08 High on the rooftops of Beijing are hundreds of thousands of plants. But these are no ordinary gardens. This vegetation is designed to lower the temperature of the city, reduce flooding and lower energy consumption. This is China’s Green Roof Revolution. The first green roofs were created in China in the 1960s. But Continue reading
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China’s Hainan gibbon conservation success for biodiversity preservation: IUCN
The Hainan gibbon is the most endangered of all gibbons and the world’s rarest primate. It is endemic to the southern Chinese island of Hainan. Its population has increased from as few as 7 to 9 in the 1980s to 35 today, according to a report released at the WCC held both online and in-person Continue reading
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Archaeologists find evidence of drinking beer 9,000 years ago in southern China
HANGZHOU, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — People in southern China learnt to brew beer from crops and plants about 9,000 years ago, according to findings during an excavation at the Qiaotou site in Yiwu City, known as the world’s supermarket, in east China’s Zhejiang Province. The findings come from work by Chinese archaeologists Leping Jiang and Continue reading
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Bamboo called green solution for industry
Source: China Daily 2021-09-07 By YANG WANLI Popular plant can capture more carbon while helping decrease use of plastics China is calling for joint efforts from countries worldwide to promote sustainable development by boosting the bamboo industry and further contributing to the global fight against climate change. Known for its biodegradable, non-polluting qualities, bamboo represents Continue reading
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China source of half new sub-Saharan renewable capacity
Attempts by the United States and its allies to dismantle the solar-energy industry in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region over allegations of so-called forced labor carry huge implications for cutting global carbon emissions and energy connectivity in developing countries. China is the world’s largest producer of solar energy products, and Xinjiang has taken the lead Continue reading
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A third of global wildlife and tree species on a glidepath to ‘mass extinction’: scientific experts
Nearly 30 percent of the 138,374 species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List are at risk of extinction, the global conservation body reported last Saturday. A separate report published by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BCGI) on Wednesday said that a third of the world’s tree species were also Continue reading
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China’s top-down actions dispel carbon peak doubts
TAIYUAN, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) — Orderly and steady progress has been made in China’s green and low-carbon transition, as the world’s largest energy producer and consumer has vowed to reach its carbon dioxide emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. On Friday, north China’s coal-rich Shanxi Province hosted the Taiyuan Energy Low Continue reading
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From blueprint to reality, China-Africa cooperation bearing rich fruit
From the operation of Kribi deep sea port in Cameroon, to the building of Africa’s “Great Green Wall”, the grand blueprint for China-Africa cooperation is turning into reality, bearing rich fruit across the African continent. BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — At a landmark summit three years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping and African leaders drew Continue reading
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Sinopec Plans to Spend $4.6 Billion on Hydrogen Energy by 2025
China’s oil giants are shifting from oil to gas and renewable energy sources, with Sinopec focusing on green hydrogen as a fuel for transport, while CNOOC launches a carbon capture and storage project in the South China Sea China‘s oil giants are going green – with Sinopec announcing plans to boost investment in green hydrogen Continue reading
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Decarbonising China’s energy system
China’s carbon neutrality commitment will speed up decarbonisation in its power system. Energy storage, digitalisation and the retirement of polluting assets will all be key to this complex transition. At the Leaders’ Summit on Climate hosted in April by US President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping said the country is to place strict controls on Continue reading
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China’s Juncao technology spreads agricultural benefits to developing nations
Juncao technology, a method that uses chopped grass as substrate for growing edible and medicinal mushrooms and as forage for livestock, is a unique Chinese invention that uses agricultural resources of light, heat and water in a holistic way. The technology of Juncao－jun translates as “mushroom” and cao as “grass”－enables circular production involving plants, animals Continue reading
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China announces massive greening plan to achieve carbon goals
China plans to plant 500 million mu (about 33.33 million hectares) of forests and grasslands in the next five years — 100 million mu per year — to help achieve its carbon emission reduction goals, according to the country’s forestry authorities. The task includes planting 54 million mu of trees and 46 million mu of Continue reading
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China’s Coast: Guarding Mangroves
China’s coastline stretches over 18,000 kilometers and is home to abundant marine life, such as Bryde’s whales, Chinese white dolphins and sea turtles. This series focuses on the species living along the Chinese coastline and the survival challenges they face, tells the stories of frontline conservationists, and discusses feasible measures for biodiversity and ecological protection. Continue reading
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What are China’s ecological redlines?
Ecological conservation redlines demarcate areas that provide important ecological services with the aim of protecting them. These include shallow coastal waters, wetlands, glaciers and forests. China’s ecological redlines policy is creating new protections and a model for sustainable land-use planning that has important lessons for any country wishing to meet the objectives of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and Continue reading
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Laos-China Railway to be Green, Low-Carbon Railway
The external power grid project along the Laos-China railway has been completed and is now ready to supply power to the railway, which is scheduled to officially open in early December this year. The China Southern Power Grid Company has completed the installation of electricity transmission poles along the Laos-China Railway, saying the railway will Continue reading
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About China Environment …
Global environmental crisis is the product of centuries of Western exploitation of the land, natural resources and labour of the Global South. Seriously tackling the global ecological crisis must involve a global redistribution of power and wealth from the West to the Global South. We unequivocally acknowledge that in China this has required the building of socialism Continue reading
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Details of plot to harm Hong Kong revealed
By GRENVILLE CROSS 31 August 2021 About the author: Grenville Cross is a senior counsel, law professor and criminal justice analyst, and was previously director of public prosecutions of the Hong Kong SAR. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Standard, the South China Morning Post, and China Daily. This piece was printed simultaneously Continue reading
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