The state-run China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced on December 20, 2021 that at the Shidaowan Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Shandong province of east China, the world’s first High Temperature gas cooled Reactor of Pebble bed Module (HTR-PM) is now connected to the grid. It is the first fourth generation (GEN IV) NPP of High Temperature Gas cooled…
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Green Development: Singapore and China sign bilateral cooperation agreements
Singapore and China reached 14 deals at Wednesday’s (Dec 29) Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation meeting, the biggest haul in recent years from this high-level platform set up in 2004. Among them are these agreements: Urban governance Singapore’s Ministry of National Development (MND) and China’s state planner, the National Development…
Shanghai’s ‘Hanging Gardens of Babylon’ to open along creek
A new landmark shopping complex along the Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, dubbed the city’s Hanging Gardens of Babylon, will open on Wednesday. The initial phase of the “Tian An 1000 Trees” project will include restaurants, museums, art galleries and entertainment sites, along with the city’s earliest industrial heritages. Residents and…
To achieve carbon neutrality, Chinese scientists in action
China’s emission control efforts will test and develop a series of scientific conclusions, methods and technological innovations. Many Chinese researchers are now engaged in the carbon emission-related studies. On Dec. 3, 2021 Lanzhou University, based in northwest China’s Gansu Province, jointly established an institute with LONGi Green Energy Technology Co.,…
First digital mobile supervision station launched to protect ecology of Qinling Mountains
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China to build fusion energy research facility
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Richard Lewontin, eco-socialism, evolutionary biology and Marxism
Originally published by: Science for the People by Professor Erik Svensson, November 3, 2021. https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/lewontin-special-issue/richard-lewontin-dialectical-materialism-the-relationship-between-evolutionary-biology-and-marxism/ On July 4, 2021, the great population geneticist and evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin passed away at the age of 92. Lewontin left a strong political legacy in the United States in addition to his scientific one. He shared…
Chinese researchers set up global database of soil seed banks
Chinese researchers have compiled and analyzed a database to characterize global determinants and patterns of soil seed banks. Soil seed banks, which include all viable seeds on or in the soil, represent a critical but hidden stock for potential future plant diversity on Earth. They are vital for the long-term…
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China building world’s largest national park system
This autumn, without much fanfare, China established a new government initiative that could have a profound impact on the nation’s increasingly threatened biodiversity. In October, President Xi Jinping announced the formal establishment of a network of five national parks, covering a total of 230,000 square kilometers (88,800 square miles) and containing…
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,…