BRI, BRICS, & Global South~
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Phnom Pen: China funds and builds modern hospital for Cambodia
Cambodia inaugurated a China-aided modern medical building on 21 March 2022 at the Cambodia-China Friendship Preah Kossamak Hospital in the capital Phnom Penh. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian presided over the inauguration ceremony, which was attended by approximately 1,000 people. The 11-storey building, which includes a… Continue reading
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Hungary-Serbia railway section opened: a Balkans Belt and Road Initiative
The Belgrade-Novi Sad section of the 350-km Belgrade-Budapest railway was inaugurated on Saturday in Serbia’s Novi Sad. Once finished, trains will run at a speed up to 200 km/h between Belgrade and Budapest, bringing the Balkans closer to central Europe. China is financing parts of a high-speed train route from Budapest, through Serbia and North… Continue reading
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China’s BRI an opportunity the world can’t afford to miss
China will work with the international community to continue advancing high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, making the initiative a “belt of development” for the benefit of the world and a “road to happiness” for the people of all countries. This was the key message delivered by Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi at… Continue reading
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Chinese company helps build Italian offshore wind farm – first in Mediterranean Sea
A Chinese company has supplied the turbines to help build the first offshore wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea. The wind power plant is based in the southern Italian city of Taranto, once known for environmental woes tied to one of Europe’s largest steel smelters. The “Taranto Off-Shore Project,” includes 10 turbines producing 3 megawatts… Continue reading
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China’s Belt and Road fosters faith in economic cooperation
China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), the world’s largest international cooperation platform with an increasing number of members, is expected to make more contributions to global economic recovery. China’s unwavering efforts to promote joint construction of the BRI will convey more confidence and strength to the international community on global economic cooperation despite rising external… Continue reading
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BRI cooperation with China “transformational” for Pakistan
Cooperation with China under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) “has transformed Pakistan’s economic landscape,” Pakistani Ambassador to China Moin ul Haque said. In a recent interview with Xinhua, Haque spoke highly of the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship BRI project, saying it is “transformational” for his entire… Continue reading
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Brazil’s vegetation coverage rises despite new Belt & Road hydropower project
Spanning from the Amazon area in Brazil’s northwest to Rio de Janeiro in the southeast, the 2,543-km-long Belo Monte-Rio de Janeiro 800kV power transmission line is the world’s longest. The super project covers the Amazon rainforest, the Cerrado savanna and the Atlantic coastal mountains, where many rare plants grow. When the project was finished, the… Continue reading
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Tanzania recommends adoption of Chinese Juncao technology to promote sustainable agriculture
Shared by China-Environment-News.com on Facebook DAR ES SALAAM, March 9 (Xinhua) — The government of Tanzania recommended the adoption of the Chinese Juncao technology to promote sustainable agriculture and the livestock industry in the east African nation. Juncao, which literally means “mushroom” and “grass,” can be used, as its name suggests, to grow edible mushrooms, as… Continue reading
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Chinese-built Croatian wind farm a “milestone” in green cooperation
Watch video: https://youtu.be/hUmRtqIG850 A major Chinese investment in Croatia – a wind farm with an installed capacity of 156 megawatts (MW) and estimated value of 230 million euro ($258 million) – has started operation in a trial mode, the Croatian government said in December 2021. The Senj wind farm is the largest such facility in Croatia… Continue reading
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative: United Arab Emirates builds world’s largest integrated solar power project
The latest stage of world’s largest integrated solar power generation project has been connected to the national grid of the United Arab Emirates for power generation in the city of Dubai, converting solar energy into electricity for locals around the clock. It is being built by a Chinese enterprise. The first phase of the Mohammed… Continue reading
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Laos sees its renewable energy capacity as the ‘battery of South East Asia’
Upgrading infrastructure is a key part of Lao PDR’s strategy to transform the land-locked and from ‘Least Developed Country’ status, a milestone which policymakers hope to achieve by the mid-2020s. Lao PDR’s national plans envision it becoming the Battery of Southeast Asia by exporting electricity to the region. While Lao PDR is a landlocked country,… Continue reading
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Pakistan’s ‘Ten Billion Tree Tsunami’ planting for a greener environment: learning from China
On September 2, 2018 Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, launched 10 Billions Trees Afforestation Project to plant 10 billion trees in the country including additional one billion seedlings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by 2023. The Billions Trees Afforestation Project (BTAP) of the Pakistani government is the world’s 4th biggest plantation project successfully implemented by Pakistan after… Continue reading
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To eradicate global poverty and cut global carbon emissions, rich nations must change their consumption patterns
Sometimes the aching injustice of human-caused climate change hits you square between the eyes. A new fact rears up that is potent, emotive and incontrovertible. That is how Carbon Brief introduced an article this week on the massive global inequality in Green House Gas emissions between people in rich and poor countries – an issue… Continue reading
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Argentina: world’s southern-most hydroelectric project on path of green progress
Argentina officially joined the global Belt and Road Initiative on 6 Feb 2022, but China has been providing bilateral support and investment for over 9 years before the historical BRI agreement. One such project is the Santa Cruz Hydroelectric Project, which consists of the two mega dams apart along the Santa Cruz River. China offered… Continue reading
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China and Papua New Guinea deepen Belt and Road cooperation
Papua New Guinea formally joined the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018, and was the second Pacific island nation to sign up to the initiative after East Timor. China has expressed its willingness to expand cooperation with Papua New Guinea in such fields as infrastructure, energy resources, agriculture, forestry and fishery, and welcomes more high-quality… Continue reading
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Understanding China’s latest guidelines for greening the Belt and Road
The latest guidelines are another important milestone towards greening China’s overseas projects and investments. They are – to our knowledge – the most comprehensive document by any country regulator to guide environmental management of overseas projects by either public or private companies. This January, less than six months after publishing the “Green development guidelines for overseas investment… Continue reading
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Chinese group awarded $2.8bn first phase of Philippines’ Bicol rail scheme
The Philippines’ Department of Transportation (DOTr) has awarded a $2.8bn contract to a Chinese consortium to build the first phase of the 565km Bicol rail scheme on the country’s main island of Luzon. Philippine National Railways (PNR) is planning to build the link between Metro Manila and the southeastern tip of Luzon, with the first phase to… Continue reading
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Along the Belt and Road: Breaking the Cycle of Underdevelopment in Latin America
By Carlos Martinez – Feb 10, 2022 The last few months have seen a significant expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although this region of the world is not the most obvious fit for an undertaking that was originally modelled on the Silk Road – a network of… Continue reading
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ASEAN nations using Laos-China Railway for ‘green’, low-carbon freight
Business operators from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar are now using the Laos-China Railway to import and export goods to and from China and beyond. Over 100,000 tonnes of cross-border goods have been shipped via the railway since it became operational in December, 2021. In early December 2021, Laos inaugurated the Boten-Vientiane railway, a 414-kilometer… Continue reading
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Forget ‘BRI debt trap’ – US controlled World Bank / IMF is the REAL debt trap
Forget the fake Western claims about China’s Belt & Road Initiative: the US controlled World Bank and International Monetary Fund have been bankrupting and enslaving developing nations with crippling debt, “austerity” and financial colonialism for 70 years. While supposedly an “international organisation”, all appointments to the Board of the World Bank World must be approved… Continue reading
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The Green Belt and Road Initiative
A China-led effort, greening of the Belt and Road Initiative involves development projects aligned with the 2030 UNSDG goals that also present climate action-positive investment opportunities. Since it was first proposed in 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has taken on many forms. A clear-eyed strategy to connect Asia with Africa and Europe via… Continue reading
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The New Vision for Belt and Road
With over 150 countries and international organizations participating in the Belt and Road, the initiative will be built into a more open and innovative one. Compared with nine years ago, when the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first proposed, the current international landscape has greatly changed with both favorable and unfavorable factors popping up for cooperation… Continue reading
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China and Argentina sign nuclear power project deal
Nucleoeléctrica Argentina and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) have signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the development of the Atucha 3 nuclear power plant. World Nuclear News, 2 Feb 2022 reports: “The nuclear power plant, to be sited near Lima, about 100 kilometres north west of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, will use China’s… Continue reading
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Argentina officially joins BRI in major boost for China-Latin America cooperation
Argentina has officially joined the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on the 50th anniversary of China-Argentina diplomatic ties, with top leaders from both countries expressing their willingness to further deepen bilateral cooperation as well as cooperation between China and Latin America. Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Argentine President Alberto Fernandez in Beijing on… Continue reading
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China, South-South Cooperation and Small Island Developing States
In recent years China has increasingly emerged as a champion of “south-south” cooperation as a new model for developing countries to move towards increasing living standards in line with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In January 2021, China issued a white paper titled China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era. It emphasized… Continue reading
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Why capitalism needs imperialism to drain wealth from the Global South
We need to be clear on the impacts of colonial wealth transfers on the Global North, not just the Global South, because it was a two way thing. What was taken from the South is something without which the North would not be what it is today – in fact there would not be an… Continue reading
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Stop blaming China for the climate crisis
Video explainer In this excellent brief presentation for the Friends of Socialist China YouTube channel, Carlos Martinez gives a comprehensive explanation of why the US and its allies’ attempts to push responsibility for the climate crisis onto China are hypocritical and ridiculous, and why cooperation on climate change is essential. China Environment has published many… Continue reading
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Tonga eruption may damage environment for years – China sends more disaster assistance
Ecological damage The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said it was extremely concerned about the potential impact the massive volcanic eruption in Tonga will have on agriculture and fisheries in the area. The FAO noted that around 86 percent of Tonga residents are engaged in some form of agriculture, whether it is through crops,… Continue reading
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Belt and Road: China to help Nicaragua build housing for thousands poor and working families
China has signed an agreement with Nicaragua to build thousands of homes for poor and working families, expanding an existing public housing program in the Central American nation. Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government has signed a 3 year agreement with China to build thousands of homes for poor and working families, expanding the already existing Bismarck… Continue reading
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Global South Economic Alliance: China launches challenge to US hegemony
China is leading an international effort to develop alliances to counter U.S. hegemony. A new grouping of nations has been formed to promote China’s Global Development Initiative (GDI), and will complement China’s massive international infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative. In March 2021, 17 nations—many led by anti-imperialist and progressive governments, including Cuba, Venezuela,… Continue reading
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Can the US seriously blame China for climate change?
At UN COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow, the U.S. attempted to displace blame onto China for climate change, which was caused disproportionately by the advanced capitalist powers. While the U.S. media often calls China the biggest carbon emitter, this tends to leave out both per-capita emissions and the fact that these same countries have outsourced… Continue reading
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China urges Green philosophy in BRI projects
In a move seen as important to further Greening of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese authorities have updated guidance on environmental protection for overseas operations, requiring Chinese companies to adopt environmentally friendly approaches through the entire life cycle of their projects. In the last few days, the Communist Party of China’s powerful Central Committee… Continue reading
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FAO and China agree to implement Phase 3 of South-South Cooperation
The agreement marks the official launch of Phase III of the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme after China’s announcement of an additional $50 million in funding The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed an agreement with the Chinese Government officially launching Phase III of the FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Programme. The… Continue reading
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Tarea Vida (‘Life Task’) – Cuba’s action plan on climate change
Cuba is taking serious action on the threats posed by climate change. In April 2021, the Cuban News Agency (ACN) reported that the use of renewable energy sources in Cuba during 2020 reached an installed power potential of 298 Megawatts (MW), which is expected to increase in tune with athe national energy strategy aimed at… Continue reading
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‘Panda Bonds’ to help fund Africa’s energy transition: China-Africa Cooperation Forum
China’s commitment to supporting Africa’s green and low-carbon energy transition was a highlight of the 8th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which concluded on 30 November 2021 with a climate joint declaration. The Declaration on China-Africa Cooperation on Combatting Climate Change provides the shape of future partnership in the energy sector. On coal, it reaffirms President Xi… Continue reading
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