Cuba has officially joined the Alliance for Energy of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a project to build an international mega-platform for cooperation and exchange under the principle of shared profit. The announcement was issued by the Cuban Foreign Ministry in a statement this Monday, October 18, 2021….
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Tibet in Western media vs the real Tibet on the ground
#ChinaChat Miao Xiaojuan, host of the China Chat program on New China TV, talks with two American experts who visited Tibet – Shaun Rein (of China Market Research Group) and David Blair (of Centre for China and Globalization). Together the two visitors share their firsthand experiences on the trip, delve…
5G autopilot buses on trial in Zhengzhou, China
The Zhengzhou Bus Repair Plant was established in 1963 and today is China’s largest bus and coach manufacturer. The Yutong Bus company has a global market share of 15%, and 30% share of the China bus market. The business focuses on the production of all electric (NEV) and hybrid electric…
China issues guideline on green development in urban, rural areas
The general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council have issued a guideline underpinning green development in urban and rural areas. The guideline sets a target that by 2025 the institutional mechanisms and policy systems for green development in urban and rural areas will…
China sets 2025 efficiency goals for energy-intensive industries
BEIJING :China’s government said on Thursday energy-intensive industries like steel, aluminium, cement and oil refining should ensure that more than 30per cent of their production capacity meets tighter energy efficiency standards by 2025. The goals, published on the website of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), have been set…
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China: Energy-intensive industries efficiency goals
Published 2021/10/22 China’s government said energy-intensive industries like steel, aluminium, cement and oil refining should ensure that more than 30 per cent of their production capacity meets tighter energy efficiency standards by 2025. The goals, published on the website of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), have been set…
Conserving China’s crop biodiversity
A recent article in China Dialogue discusses the importance of conserving China’s agricultural plant biodiversity for future food security. Maintaining crop genetic diversity is a vital aspect of biodiversity in China, and around the world – hence the importance of looking after “germplasm” in China. Agricultural biological diversity (agrobiodiversity), is…
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African foundation hails China’s pledge to support biodiversity conservation
China’s financial pledge to support biodiversity conservation in developing countries illustrates its commitment to promoting planetary health, the Nairobi-based African Wildlife Foundation said in a statement. During the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, in Kunming, the capital of…
China to further improve forest coverage and biodiversity by 2025
China will take more affirmative actions to increase forest cover and boost biodiversity by 2025, China’s forest and wildlife conservation authority announced. The announcement was made at a press briefing by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration(NFGA), during which NFGA officials responded to reporters’ questions on the country’s 14th Five-Year-Plan…
China’s development of a carbon-neutral electricity system: 43% of electricity will be solar by 2060
Researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing, Nankai University in Tianjin, Renmin University of China in Beijing and Harvard University in the USA have found that solar energy could provide 43.2% of China’s electricity demands in 2060 at less than two-and-a-half U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour. For comparison, coal power tariffs in China ranged…