Energy. Transport & Climate Change~
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Cambodian expressway funded under Belt and Road over 70% completed
The expressway is one of the Cambodia-China cooperation projects under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Nearly 71 percent of the construction work on the Chinese-invested Phnom Penh – Sihanoukville Expressway has been completed despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cambodian Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) said in a news release on 12 December… Continue reading
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China-aided rural water project in Cambodia completed
KAMPONG CHHNANG — The second phase of the China-aided rural water supply project in Cambodia has come to an end, constructing 964 pumping wells and 54 community ponds in 10 provinces, officials said here on 9 Dec 2021. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the completion of the two-year project, Cambodian Minister of Rural Development… Continue reading
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Exploring China’s solar thermal power generation technology
Like sunflowers, more than 4,000 mirrors, each covering 138 square meters, are arranged in concentric circles, concentrating thousands of beams of sunlight onto the central heat absorption tower. This is a molten salt solar thermal power station, located in the Qaidam Basin in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, an area with rich solar energy resources. At… Continue reading
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China’s top regulator announces peak-emissions strategy for data centres and 5G networks to support net-zero goals
Key points: According to the SCMP outines the key points are: China will relocate non real-time data centres from eastern to Western regions to utilise abundant supply of wind and solar energy there Plan comes with a warning to local governments to prevent unchecked developments and detrimental practices in land, finance and tax matters China… Continue reading
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China supports progress and sovereignty in Latin America – “Great Wall against American hegemonism”
“Since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, 19 of the 33 countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region have signed up to the China-led global infrastructure development strategy. … Economic links between Latin America and the People’s Republic of China have been expanding at a dizzying rate. Bilateral trade in… Continue reading
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China’s CO2 emissions see fall since post-lockdown surge
Extracts from Carbon Brief: Clean energy and electric vehicles pick up pace The effect of China’s new policies and policy expectations is showing clearly in investment in the flagship low-carbon technologies solar, nuclear, wind and electric vehicles. Accelerated deployment of these technologies will be a key component of delivering China’s carbon goals. The Figure 1 below shows… Continue reading
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China’s Shanxi province strengthens grassland protection
Shanxi is a province in North China with a large area of grasslands. According to the census on grassland resources in the 1980s, the province’s natural grassland area is 45,520 square kilometers, accounting for 29 percent of the province’s total area. Grasslands in Shanxi are mainly distributed in the marginal areas of the Taihang and… Continue reading
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Unused rooftop in Shenzhen, China turned into urban recreational skypark
A good idea for rooftops everywhere: Put them to public use. Seventeen million people live in Shenzhen, China—it is the electronics workshop for the world. A giant rail terminal and depot for repairing trains were built near the bridge to Hong Kong, with a roof 1200 meters long and 50 to 60 m wide, about… Continue reading
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China and Pakistan work hand in hand for green CPEC
The Chinese and Pakistani governments have been supporting each other in nature conservation and practicing the idea of a green Belt and Road to promote the high-quality development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. ISLAMABAD, Dec. 9, 2021 — China and Pakistan are keeping their commitment to making the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) a green project,… Continue reading
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China to open ‘green lanes’ for African agricultural exports as China-Africa trade sees massive growth
China plans to open ‘green lanes’ for African agricultural exports to China and work to reach $300 billion in total imports from Africa in the next three years. From January to October this year, China-Africa trade and the Asian giant’s direct investment in Africa both bucked the trend, reaching over $207 billion and $2.6 billion… Continue reading
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How can China help South Africa achieve a ‘just energy transition’ ?
Africa is looking at China’s presence in energy on the continent with hope for a just energy transition from coal to renewables. On 22 September, speaking at the UN General Assembly, China’s president, Xi Jinping, announced China would provide strong support for green transitions in developing nations and stop building coal power overseas. On 30 November,… Continue reading
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Beijing to see end of heavy air pollution by 2025
BEIJING, Dec. 8, 2021 (Xinhua) — Beijing will basically see no heavy pollution days by 2025, with other environmental quality indicators to be steadily improved, said an ecological environment protection plan released on Wednesday. The capital will strive to keep the average PM2.5 concentration within 35 micrograms per cubic meter by 2025, according to the… Continue reading
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China-built Moscow metro stations open to traffic: “landmark for Sino-Russian friendship”
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday via video link launched a new section of the Moscow Metro, part of which was built by China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC). CRCC constructed a 5.4-km line, which consists of three stations and nine tunnels, as part of the 70-km Third Interchange Circuit of the Moscow Metro. It… Continue reading
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Across China: A “zero-carbon” winter with nuclear heating
JINAN, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) — Despite the winter chill gaining pace in Haiyang City of east China’s Shandong Province, Li Jianmin is unworried thanks to the green heating plants at his home. “The temperature inside is quite stable, and the heating bill is low,” said Li, a local resident. On Nov. 9 this year, the… Continue reading
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North Korea increases green energy – fosters energy partnership with China
In 2017 North Korea generated 55 percent of its total electricity from hydroelectric plants (with the remaining 45 percent coming from fossil fuels). Thus the socialist country already displays a national reliance on renewable energy. The North Korean leadership wants to further develop renewable energy production sources, including wind and solar power. However, the weakness of the… Continue reading
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Cuba and China strengthen ties through the Belt and Road strategy
Cuba it should be remembered was the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with China back in 1960. Sixty-one years after that union, both nations continue to collaborate with each other in the fight against hegemonism and unilateralism, the use of force, and violation of international laws. Today, the two countries have a… Continue reading
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China’s Lenovo offers opportunities for volunteers to work from a remote island while helping environmental projects
Chinese tech brand Lenovo is launching the “Work for Humankind” project, in partnership with the NGO, Island Conservation, at a large UNESCO ecological reserve which is part of the Juan Fernandez archipelago, 600 km off the coast of Chile. SANTIAGO, Dec 7 — A paradisiacal island located off the coast of Chile is ready to… Continue reading
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Shenzhen: Chinese city with 16,000 electric buses and 22,000 electric taxis
Shared by China Environment News VIDEO 21:14 This 21 minute video episode is overflowing with positivity as it visits Shenzhen, China – a world-leading city in which the drive to go electric has resulted in 16,000 electric buses and 22,000 electric taxis. The commitment to convert city transport to a sustaninable system is simply astounding, with… Continue reading
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Chinese Experience: Helping to save the Aral Sea
The Aral Sea has a grand history in Kazakhstan and the Central Asian region and was once one of the four largest lakes in the world, covering 68,380 square kilomters with Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south. Its name means “Island Sea” as this water body is surrounded by the forbidding deserts… Continue reading
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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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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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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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Yangtze River Delta research institute aims to boost region’s sustainable development
The Yangtze River Delta Sustainable Development Research Institute has been established to serve the national Yangtze River Delta region integration strategy. It pools the resources of universities and scientific research institutions including Tongji University, the executive committee of the Yangtze River Delta Ecology and Greenery Integration Demonstration Zone, and combines talent training, scientific research and… Continue reading
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Beijing, Moscow strengthen energy security collaboration
China and Russia have been stepping up energy cooperation during the first nine months of this year with bilateral energy trade reaching a new high, and the two sides vowed to further enhance energy cooperation in sectors like oil and gas, nuclear, petrochemicals and renewables. Bilateral trade between China and Russia in the energy industry… Continue reading
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Anglo-US military pollution is the skeleton in the West’s climate closet
Western politicians wanted to emerge from the Glasgow COP26 climate summit with their “green credentials” burnished, proving that they have done everything in their power to prevent a future global temperature rise of more than 1.5C. Climate scientists and developing nations are already doubtful whether the pledges being made go far enough. But the visible activity… Continue reading
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China releases rare fish into Yangtze River
CHONGQING, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) — Chinese officials and researchers have released 450,000 rare fish into the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the latest effort to restore the river’s ecological environment. The release took place in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality and was launched by multiple departments, including the national nature reserve for the protection… Continue reading
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China-Brazil wind power project enters operation
CGN Brazil Energy Holding Co., a branch of China General Nuclear Power Group, announced its LDB wind power expansion project was completed and put into operation Thursday. The LDB wind power expansion project is located in Lagoa do Barro in northeast Brazil, with a total installed capacity of 82,800 kW. It is the first Greenland… Continue reading
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China’s renewable energy model: sharing it to developing nations
Republished by China Environment from China Dialogue under a Creative Commons licence. Having said it will stop building coal power plants overseas, could China instead export its renewable energy model to developing nations? In Yinchuan, Ningxia province, on the eastern side of the Yellow River, over four million solar panels turn to the sun. Below… Continue reading
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