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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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History of mathematics is being revised to be fair to Han contributions
It’s becoming increasingly clear that many key developments in the history of mathematics were made in China, centuries or millennia before they were found by Europeans. The puzzle over how China suddenly became a global leader in Artificial Intelligence has a simple, widely overlooked answer: mathematics. AI and other Big…
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China now leads the world in natural science papers
The attached Japanese news report from August 2020 shows that China had surpassed the US as the world’s leading producer of natural science papers. In June 2021 China Environment News reported that over the past 5 years China led the world in the number of research papers published on technologies…