The Goupitan Hydropower Station navigation project in Yuqing County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province was opened to trial traffic on Tuesday as a 500-ton ship passed the three-stage ship lift. With a total length of 2,306 meters, it allows 500-ton ships to enter the Yangtze River in Fuling, Chongqing along the…
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As China pursues a green future, Bitcoin miners feel the squeeze
Is Bitcoin an example of the worst excesses of rampant neo-liberalism? Patrick Li’s Bitcoin mine used to be filled with the persistent hum of rows and rows of computers, all busy around the clock solving the complicated mathematical puzzles needed to keep the world’s most popular cryptocurrency operational. Li, 39,…
Chinese scientists ‘reinvent’ potatoes to help solve global food crisis
Chinese scientists have developed a generation of “pure and fertile potato lines” with genome editing technologies in a groundbreaking achievement. The experiment, led by Huang Sanwen, a researcher with the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen (AGIS) under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), used genome design to transform potato…
China launches EarthLab: first facility exploring Earth system interactions
Laboratory for the simulation of climate, environmental, ecological, Earth and space weather systems, to predict climate and environment variability, prevent and mitigate natural disasters more effectively. The virtual EarthLab was officially launched on 23 June 2021 in Beijing’s Huairou Science City on Wednesday. In partnership with Tsinghua University, the Institute…
The preservation of an abandoned village has created a living museum of decades past
Time froze in Zhiziluo Village, Yunnan Province, in 1986. Painted slogans of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong, along with his portrait, are still visible on the mottled walls. Vines, after creeping over some houses, stopped growing but remained in place, withered. A basketball court at the center of the village…
Crested ibis, once nearly extinct, now thrive due to conservation efforts
Click link to view video: http://mp42.china.com.cn/video_tide/video/2021/6/21/20216211624237765464_376.mp4 The elderly people of Yangxian County regard crested ibises as a symbol of good luck. Not only is the red color on their crests considered auspicious in Chinese culture, but they also, like cranes, are known because of their long lives as a symbol…
New Chinese study warns of risks from declining oxygen levels in large cities worldwide
BEIJING – A Chinese research team has recently revealed the emerging risks of declining oxygen levels in large cities around the world, raising concerns over people’s health and the potential for sustainable development in major cities, Xinhua reports. A research team from Lanzhou University investigated oxygen balances and related risks…
China’s Volvo invests $118 million in US to produce new EVs
Volvo is 100% owned by Geely Automobiles in China. The founder of Geely personally owns 10% of the common shares of Daimler Benz AG in Germany. Geely is the largest privately-owned automotive manufacturer in China today. Three of Geely’s people sit in the Daimler Benz AG Board of Directors. It…
Coal phase-out in the Belt and Road Initiative
An analysis of Chinese-backed coal power from 2014-2020 One constantly sees claims in the Western media that China is massively expanding coal fired power plants around the world. The facts, as always, are not quite what the handful of Western regimes claim. On 16 June 2021, the Green BRI Center…
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China now leads the world in natural science papers
The attached Japanese news report from August 2020 shows that China had surpassed the US as the world’s leading producer of natural science papers. In June 2021 China Environment News reported that over the past 5 years China led the world in the number of research papers published on technologies…