China is using an artificial intelligence-driven fish identification system to conduct round-the-clock tracking of species passing along a fishway on a dam on Tibet’s largest river. Monitoring the route once relied on labour-intensive manual counts, but it now uses an AI-based “fish facial recognition” system to identify species unique to China’s Tibet autonomous region. Using sonar… Continue reading

Under India’s 2026 BRICS Chairmanship, officials from 10 BRICS member countries – Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and India -participated in a meeting. in New Delhi on August 17, 2026. The meeting discussed key environmental priorities, climate change and sustainable development. The Secretary of India’s Ministry of… Continue reading

August 17, 2026 marked the 10th anniversary of the first Symposium on Advancing the Development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) held in China. Over the past decade, four successive national-level symposiums have established phased strategic priorities, guiding the BRI from an ambitious vision into a mature, institution-based framework for global cooperation. Over that period the… Continue reading

The Chinese government has delivered a second donation of 5,000 photovoltaic systems to Cuba to electrify isolated rural homes and support essential services, including health centres, emergency medical facilities, day-care centres, homes for children without parental care, and bank branches. The equipment will be distributed across the country’s 169 municipalities. The new batch follows the… Continue reading

China’s Mega Water Project Delivers 90 Billion Cubic Meters of Water – Benefits 195 Million People Water resources are fundamental to China’s agricultural production and food security. Mega water infrastructure projects play a critical role in addressing regional water allocation imbalances and meeting agricultural water demands.  The eastern and middle routes of China’s South-to-North Water… Continue reading

On 23 July 2026, China’s National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration issued a joint 2026-2030 blueprint that sets a renewable consumption target of about 1.8 billion tonnes of standard coal equivalent. The plan defines concrete, enforceable medium- and long-term benchmarks with 2030 as the key milestone, featuring four binding quantitative targets:… Continue reading

Recent data from China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) shows that 40 percent of the country’s total electricity generated in the first half of 2026 was created by renewable resources. The NEA’s report shows China generated 2 trillion kilowatt-hours of clean energy, about 9 percent more than the same period last year, and accounting for 41.2… Continue reading

Western media called it “Eco-Authoritarian!” The rabidly neo-liberal, anti-China UK-based publication, The Economist, calls China’s amazing efforts to restore the ecological health of the mighty Yangtze River “eco-authoritarian”. This is a term whose entire function is to make successful environmental protection sound sinister. The entire approach is an examplar of the way most Western media… Continue reading

The ongoing El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean is gaining strength and is likely to intensify further to become the strongest in 150 years, according to the National Climate Centre (NCC) of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA). Climate experts warn that this could lead to amplified risks of prolonged heat waves, heavier rainfall and stronger typhoons… Continue reading

China’s International Mangrove Center officially began operations on 25 July 2026, with its inaugural council meeting in Shenzhen, marking its transition from a global initiative to a permanent international organization focused on mangrove conservation and cooperation. The launch coincided with the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem. China first proposed the International… Continue reading

China’s 15th Five Year Plan set a target in March 2026 to build 100 national level zero-carbon industrial parks – zones for industrial production with net-zero or close to zero carbon emissions. This move marked an upgrade to what had previously been a series of pilot projects around the country and catapulted such zones to a national priority.… Continue reading

Hainan province has set a 2030 deadline for banning the sale of new fuel-powered vehicles, making it China’s first provincial-level region to adopt such a policy. The mandate is part of a plan by the province for the construction of the national ecological civilization pilot zone, which aims for new energy vehicles to account for… Continue reading

“Rising ocean heat drives extreme weather, global sea-level rise, amplifies heatwaves, and intensifies atmospheric instability.” An international scientific analysis (published in January 2026) has found that the world’s oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any year since the start of modern measurements. The 2025 heat gain totalled 23 zetta joules—equivalent to roughly 37… Continue reading

Demand for electric ships is surging in China, driven by both policies to replace aging vessels and the pursuit of low-carbon growth. A shipbuilding company in east China’s Shandong Province is using intelligent equipment to achieve a fully modular construction system. In creating successively larger parts from smaller ones, the company has reduced the shipbuilding… Continue reading

 “I remember the first time I encountered a bamboo forest. It wasn’t a manicured garden or a tourist-trodden path; it was a wild, untamed expanse that swallowed me whole. The sheer scale of it was breathtaking – towering stalks, impossibly straight and uniformly green, reaching for the sky like emerald pillars.” The allure of the… Continue reading

Mangrove area has increased by about 44% since 2000  China’s mangrove forests now cover 31,700 hectares (78,300 acres), marking steady progress in the country’s efforts to restore and protect these ecosystems. The figure was released by China’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) on July 26, the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem.… Continue reading

China is seizing the opportunity presented by the flood season in its largest desert for drone assisted ecological restoration. During the flood season, abundant water from the Yurungkax River created ideal conditions for ecological restoration in the surrounding desert in northwest China. Seizing this opportunity, China channelled flood waters and used a drone to sow… Continue reading

China has achieved a world first in meteorological observation of a typhoon during landfall. This involved deploying a coordinated array of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to record the first full-process, three-dimensional typhoon monitoring to capture real-time temperature, humidity, wind, and turbulence data. The China Meteorological Administration conducted the experiment at the Low-Alt Economy UAV Weather… Continue reading

Chinese researchers have recently developed a novel perovskite-organic tandem solar cell that has set a new world record of 28.04 percent for steady-state photoelectric conversion efficiency, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The cell, developed by the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), features a wide-bandgap perovskite top… Continue reading

Photo shows a wind farm in Xing’an league, north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region. (Photo/Wang Zheng) The World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2026 recently published by the United Nations describes the current turmoil in global energy markets as “among the largest in modern history.” As multiple international institutions lower their forecasts for global… Continue reading

Future of solar power at 50°C in Gobi Desert Deep in the vast Gobi Desert near Turpan, NW China’s Xinjiang, a massive “blue sea of solar panels” with a total installed capacity of one million kilowatts is rapidly expanding across the landscape. Here China has introduced intelligent robots to handle the highly repetitive installation of… Continue reading

China has set its first nationwide targets to accelerate the green, low-carbon transformation of the heavy truck sector. It aims to ensure that electric trucks account for at least 40 per cent of new heavy-goods vehicle sales by 2030, as part of a broader effort to reduce carbon emissions in its vast transport sector. That… Continue reading

Transition to World’s First Major Electro-State Energy is an important foundation and driver of human progress. Building an “electro-state” with clean energy as the mainstay is not only an important achievement of Chinese modernization, but also a historic exploration bearing on humanity’s sustainable development. Since the Industrial Revolution, the large-scale development and use of fossil… Continue reading

As cities face more frequent floods, rising temperatures and water stress, many are rethinking how urban infrastructure should work. In China, one answer is being found, not in concrete alone but in nature – which is increasingly being designed, not simply as an amenity but as infrastructure, helping cities become more resilient, more livable and… Continue reading

Zambia has just signed contracts with a consortium of Chinese firms to build a two-megawatt solar plant, with battery storage, in every one of its 156 constituencies. That’s 312 megawatts of decentralised clean power, wired into the national grid, in a single nationwide programme. Once completed, the Presidential Constituency Energy Initiative is expected to become… Continue reading

World’s first Forest City China’s Liuzhou Forest City is an innovative urban planning project that aims to combat air pollution and redefine the relationship with nature in a sustainable way. “The scale of greenery planned is genuinely enormous. Liuzhou Forest City is expected to include around 40,000 trees and close to a million plants spread… Continue reading

China’s Ministry of Natural Resources has reported significant achievements in ecological conservation and resource management, which is integral to China’s objectives of spurring economic growth while facilitating a transition toward more environmentally sustainable practices across all sectors of economic and social development. China has the largest area of man-made forests and grasslands globally, according to… Continue reading

It’s common to see ignorant comments on social media, almost all originating in the USA, saying things like “I will believe what China says about the growth in its use of renewables when they come clean on coal.” No doubt many of these “social media commentators” are bots but many others are in the mainstream… Continue reading

China’s Kubuqi Desert is being reshaped into one of the most striking energy projects on Earth. Located in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,  a giant “Solar Great Wall” is under construction. The structure is so large it can be seen from space, it will consist of a band of solar panels that will run 400… Continue reading

Reshaping global scientific leadership A quiet but powerful shift is reshaping global scientific leadership: thousands of Chinese scientists are leaving the U.S. and returning home, transforming Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) research, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology worldwide. Historically, the United States has been a beacon for scientific talent, drawing in researchers from around the globe,… Continue reading

China on 9 July 2026 released its action plan for carbon peak during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period (2026-2030), outlining a roadmap to achieve its goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 while accelerating the transition to a cleaner energy mix. The plan sets a target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions per unit of… Continue reading

China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) has built a battery storage system powered by its own thermal management — the waste heat from charging makes the next discharge cycle more efficient, creating a self-improving energy loop. Battery thermal management — maintaining lithium-ion cells within optimal temperature ranges during both charging and discharging — typically consumes… Continue reading

New biochar technology to sustainably boost crop yields and cut greenhouse as emissions. After more than a decade of research, Chinese scientists at the Institute of Environment under the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center have developed a breakthrough technology for the efficient large-scale production of biochar from agricultural and forestry biomass. The technology enables the… Continue reading

Trees growing much faster than natural forests China’s Great Green Wall project has planted around 66 billion trees since 1978 to help slow the expansion of the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts, reduce soil erosion, and restore degraded land. It is set to expand even further – plans are underway to plant 34 billion more trees… Continue reading

China’s northernmost solar thermal power plant is now online – in a frigid high‑latitude region! China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) announced on 29 June 2026 that its Jixi 100-megaWatts (MW) solar thermal power plant, the country’s northernmost and the first of its kind in Northeast China, was connected to the grid and began generating… Continue reading