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Thousands of endangered Chinese sturgeon released into Yangtze
Agricultural authorities released 5,100 Chinese sturgeon into the Yangtze River in Yichang, Hubei province, on Saturday to restore the fish’s population and improve the river’s ecosystem. Previous releases have also occurred, including in April 2021, when a total of 10,000 captive-bred Chinese sturgeon were released into the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to help… Continue reading
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Trends in China’s renewable electricity generation technology: an industry view
Note: This video is shared for its informational content. No promotions or representations for or on behalf of the company are intended. Mr. Luan Guangfu of Chint Solar Zhejiang Company Ltd (CHINT)** gave a speech at an international marketing forum about the current situation and future trends of China’s renewable electricity generation technology. CHINT Solar… Continue reading
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China maps 2021-2035 plan on hydrogen energy development
Chinese authorities on Wednesday released a plan on the development of hydrogen energy for the 2021-2035 period as the country races toward its carbon peaking and neutrality goals. By 2025, China will put in place a relatively complete hydrogen energy industry development system, with the innovation capability significantly improved and the core technologies and manufacturing… Continue reading
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China to increase steel recycling 23% by 2025
China is the world’s top metals consumer. In 2021 China recycled 80 percent of the 600 million tons of all solid waste produced by its steel industry. In July 2021 the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said China would raise the substitution rate of renewable resources to primary resources and enhance utilisation of low-grade… Continue reading
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Groundwater levels around Beijing rise 9.64 meters in 6 years
The ecological restoration of Beijing’s rivers and lakes, combined with efforts at water conservation, have resulted in a significant rise in the groundwater level, the Beijing Water Authority said Monday. As of 2021, the groundwater depth in the plain area of Beijing had risen by 9.64 meters over a six-year period, the authority said. Meanwhile,… Continue reading
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China’s High-Speed Rail Network: Unstoppable Growth
CHINA’s railway network now exceeds 150,000km following the opening of several new lines at the end of 2021, including various high-speed lines, taking the length of the high-speed network to more than 40,000km. Two-thirds of the total high speed rail network in the entire world is in China. According to China Railway (CR), China spent… Continue reading
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China’s highest-altitude mega hydropower station is fully operational
China’s highest-altitude mega hydropower station, Lianghekou plant, went fully operational on 18 March 2022 in Sichuan Province, contributing significantly to the development of clean energy as well as setting nine world records in hydropower station construction. The project is being developed by Yalong River Basin Hydropower Development Company with a total estimated investment of $10.8… Continue reading
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The global energy landscape behind the Russia-Ukraine war
Context As the recent Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to heat up, the world energy market is experiencing huge tensions. The author points out the stark reality of the global energy landscape behind the war and the urgency for developing countries to build a united community in order to address the issues of global energy equity and… Continue reading
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How China became the world’s largest contributor to forest growth
Context China’s rapid economic development has been accompanied by environmental problems that have been the subject of much criticism. On March 12, the 44th Arbor Day in China, Liu Min and Hu Angang used detailed data to show the lesser well-known achievements of China’s forestry industry and the reasons that drove them. Key points From 1990… 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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Wealthy senior citizens in developed countries pose carbon-reduction challenge for ‘world factories’ like China, Middle East, study finds
Wealthy senior citizens in the US and Australia have the highest per capita footprint, twice the average level of western Europe and more than triple that of Japan. … Elderly people consumed about a third more meat and dairy than their middle-aged compatriots, especially in Western European countries. The higher consumption of protein-rich food translates… Continue reading
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Call for Hong Kong to establish ‘Carbon Trading Center for Asia’
Special: 2022 Two Sessions (ECNS) — A “Carbon Trading Center for Asia” should be established in Hong Kong to help develop green finance, Chen Qingxia member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, suggested in an interview with China News Service on Saturday. By establishing the “Carbon Trading… 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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China to boost forest and grass industries
China aims to boost the annual output of its forest and grass industry to 9 trillion yuan ($1.42 trillion) by 2025, according to a five-year plan released recently by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration. In the next four years, China will establish a relatively complete modern forest and grass industry and build itself into… Continue reading
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China builds photovoltaic green hydrogen plant in Xinjiang
In Dec 2021, the China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) launched China’s first 10,000-ton photovoltaic green hydrogen plant in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday, which is expected to produce of 20,000 tons of green hydrogen each year. Sinopec, the largest oil refiner of China, will carry out the world-class project in Kuqa City, Aksu… Continue reading
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Rural women plant trees and hope in south China desert
When Tao Fengjiao was struck by lightning while planting trees in south China’s Hainan Province, she emerged largely unscathed, with only a plume of black smoke rising from her hat. Her fellow planters, all women, were terrified and thought that Tao had been killed, until she slowly got to her feet. “They all said that… 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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China: a green 2021, a greener 2022
China planted 3.6 million hectares of forest and converted 380,800 hectares of farmland into forest in 2021, according to a bulletin released by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Friday. The bulletin was released a day prior to China’s Tree-planting Day which falls on March 12 every year. Wuling Mountain in Beijing./VCG The bulletin… Continue reading
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Smart logistics zone realizes carbon neutrality in NW China
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) — The “Asia No.1” smart logistics center in Xi’an, run by China’s online retailer giant JD.com, realized carbon neutrality in 2021. The 100,000 square meters of photovoltaic power generation equipment, covering the warehouse roof, supports the operation of the logistics center, according to JD.com. The green power serves the automation… 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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Chinese manufacturer unveils new generation of commercial maglev train
CHANGSHA, March 10 (Xinhua) — Chinese manufacturer CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. said Thursday that tests have been completed for its next generation of commercial maglev train. The train, with a designed speed of 200 km per hour, has achieved multiple tech breakthroughs such as unmanned driving and non-contact power supply, said Zhang Wenyue,… 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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Powering China’s energy transition
China is increasingly looking to secure its future energy needs with sustainable alternatives. In accordance with the 2016 Paris Agreement, China committed to make non-fossil fuel energy 20 percent of its energy supply by 2030 and to peak CO2 emissions by 2030. Chinese President Xi Jinping expanded on that commitment in a speech to the United Nations… 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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Regenerating farming and community agriculture in China
In China in the last 10-15 years, a new generation of young (and less young) farmers and scholars have worked together to build collaborative and cooperative small-scale Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms and hybrid forms of collective vegetable gardens for “weekend farmers” and urban Farmers’ Markets are at the basis of this movement, which is… Continue reading
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Clean organic farming brings green future in SW China
Efforts of growing organic vegetables that brings much less damage to the farmland paid off as Yunnan Province in southwest China has been trying to deliver its promise to better protect its natural recourses. In the trail field under the management of Yunling Organic Agriculture Development Co., Ltd , the organic matter in soil has… 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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Debt-for-nature swaps with China could boost Ecuador’s conservation
The following article by two Ecuadorian conservation experts asks whether debt-for-nature swap proposals could be an opportunity for China and Ecuador to reshape the two countries economic relationship, by deepening strategic cooperation with Chinese conservation researchers and supporting the development of sustainable livelihoods in collaboration with indigenous communities? Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso attended the opening… Continue reading
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China releases plan to support carbon peak, neutrality goals
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Wednesday released a strategic action plan to support scientific and technological efforts to achieve the country’s carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. The plan aims to solve core scientific and technological issues to promote an energy revolution, industrial optimization and upgrading, and a green and low-carbon technological revolution,… Continue reading
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Beijing declares success in clearing the air
“Beijing has demonstrated to the world over the past 20 years that a megacity with a rapidly increasing GDP, vehicle count, population and energy consumption can move forward to cut air pollution effectively. The PM2.5 reduction over the past few years has surpassed that of developed countries during the same period.” Yu Jianhua (Beijing Municipal… Continue reading
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China’s new power market reforms to accelerate energy transition
China’s electricity market reforms have reached an inflection point, with the potential to play an increasingly large role in accelerating the transition to clean energy, argues Anders Hove, in an article originally published by China Dialogue. Power shortages and recent energy policy announcements in China have drawn renewed focus to the topic of energy security,… Continue reading
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China starts work on final unit for largest joint China-Russia nuclear energy project
The Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant, in Lianyungang, East China’s Jiangsu Province, is the largest Chinese Russian joint venture ever, and will become the world’s largest nuclear power plant upon completion. A decade in the making, it will help China reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce cheaper and safe energy. Construction of the No.8 unit of… Continue reading
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In praise of Beijing’s Green Olympics coolest venue, Big Air Shougang
Beijing’s Green Olympics did not pretend to be in a natural wonderland. As the world gets warmer and glaciers continue to disappear, it forces us to confront an uncomfortable truth: Big Air Shougang may be the world’s first permanent Winter Olympics venue of its kind, but it won’t be the last. Haig Balian Lots of… Continue reading
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