December 2021
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China’s largest agricultural germplasm resources survey makes progress
China’s largest survey of agricultural germplasm resources, launched in March this year, has made progress, with some endangered resources rediscovered, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Tuesday. The survey will spend three years completing a comprehensive survey of crops, livestock, poultry and aquatic resources to identify the types, quantity, distribution and traits of Continue reading
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Guinea-Bissau joins Belt and Road Initiative
China and African nation Guinea-Bissau, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), making the African nation the latest member of BRI, according to the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planner. The MOU was signed on Nov. 22 by Chinese Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau Guo Ce and Continue reading
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China’s Hong Kong SAR: all new cars may be electric by 2030
All new cars in Hong Kong could be electric by as early as 2030 – five years ahead of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government’s target. Transport contributed some 17 per cent of the Hong Kong SAR’s carbon dioxide emissions last year. The SAR government is stepping up policy support to lift the take-up Continue reading
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Fukushima radiation to affect entire Pacific Ocean in 10 years
Chinese scientists from Tsinghua University have mapped out the potential global effects of Fukushima radioactive discharge, suggesting that if the contaminated water is discharged to the ocean, it is expected to sprawl across the entire Pacific Ocean within 10 years. The Japanese government announced in April that it would start dumping contaminated water from around the spring Continue reading
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Maldives power grids to be transformed into a hybrid renewable energy system by China
🔴 A Chinese renewable energy firm has signed an agreement with the Maldives to provide a hybrid solar-diesel power system in the inhabited islands of an atoll south of capital Male. Sino Soar Hybrid (Beijing) Technology Co. Ltd has won the bid for the mini-grid project in August 2021. The Maldives environment minister Shauna Aminath Continue reading
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Eritrea Joins Belt And Road Initiative
The north-east African country Eritrea has signed an MoU with China to join the Belt And Road Initiative. The MOU was signed on November 25, 2021 by the Chinese Ambassador Cai Ge and Eritrea’s Foreign Minister Osman Saleh. Eritrea is strategically important as it has access to the Red Sea, the Suez Canal and to Continue reading
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Vietnam: China delivers 1.56 GW wind power projects
Vietnam’s wind power market is the most mature in Southeast Asia. Vietnam has abundant wind resources. The coastline of more than 3000 kilometers in the coastal area ensures good wind speed. Energy consumption in Vietnam will continue to grow at an average annual rate of 8% until 2030. Wind energy and other renewable energy sources Continue reading
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China’s production of ‘green hydrogen’ from offshore wind to help Japan’s net-zero transition
Japan’s Green Growth Strategy signals a commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – and hydrogen produced from renewable energy can play an important role in this shift. A team of researchers from Shandong University, China University of Petroleum Beijing and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Harvard University in the US, have Continue reading
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BRI skeptics won’t prevail
BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — Recently, a New Delhi-based “think tank” Observer Research Foundation (ORF) groundlessly questioned the win-win nature of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), indulging in an unwarranted smear that it only exports carbon emissions to BRI nations, and brings China a “double win.” Considering what has truly happened along the Belt Continue reading
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China has over 700 Przewalski’s horses due to conservation efforts
The Przewalski’s horse species became extinct in the wild in China in the early 1980s, and the Chinese government started to re-introduce the horse breed in 1984. In 1986, the Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding and Research Center was set up for breeding and rewilding of Przewalski’s horses and, after years’ efforts, it has made breakthroughs Continue reading
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China, Africa pledge to strengthen cooperation on tackling climate change
DAKAR, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — China and African nations have issued a declaration on climate change cooperation, recognizing that climate change has become a major challenge to the natural ecological environment and social and economic development of China and Africa. The Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was held on 29-30 November, Continue reading
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China to shelter 8,000 critically endangered Yangtze alligators ahead of winter season
More than 8,000 Yangtze alligators in the Chinese city of Xuancheng will be moved indoors ahead of the winter season. The Anhui Chinese Alligator National Nature Reserve, the world’s largest breeding and research centre for the species, will be sheltering the alligators to help them through the cold winter months. Yangtze alligators, also known as Continue reading
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The United States is stealing Australia’s trade with China
Shared from The Pen Research at the University of Technology in Sydney has found that over the last 18 months, Australian trade with China is being stolen, and mostly by the United States. The research shows that Australia’s portion of trade fell by $17.3 billion in the first nine months lading to 2020, U.S. exports Continue reading
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