Russia’s renewable energy potential

06/11/2023 CEN_net 0

Key BRICS country Russia has the resources to become a world leader in alternative energy. Russia is vast country that possesses huge renewable resource potential, including hydropower, solar and wind, green hydrogen and huge swathes of forest and arable land […]

China bolsters Environment Ministry

03/11/2023 CEN_net 0

Photo: Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, China. Reforms strengthen role of China’s Environment Ministry. China Dialogue reports that on 12 October, 2023 a notice was issued outlining changes to the responsibilities of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE). The central role […]

Foreign meteorological spy sites

03/11/2023 CEN_net 0

Hundreds of foreign meteorological spy sites discovered in China. Revelations regarding the illegal collection and cross-border transmission of meteorological data shows that in the era of globalization, countries are becoming more closely connected. Many aspects, including environmental climate, as well […]

Growing rice in the Dubai desert?

01/11/2023 CEN_net 0

Chinese scientists successfully grow rice in Dubai desert. Rice is a food staple of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) yet the country is almost wholly reliant on food imports and food security is a national priority. In 2018, the UAE […]

China approves GM corn and soybean

29/10/2023 CEN_net 0

China’s Food Security: Commercial use of genetically modified corn and soybeans approved. According to a report in the South China Morning Post, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has approved genetically modified (GM) varieties of corn and soybean for […]

China’s development path, 1949-2022

28/10/2023 CEN_net 0

We republish this important and extremely informative article by Professor Michael Dunford, surveying and explaining China’s development path, 1949-2022. We recommend this thoroughly researched and detailed article to readers. Abstract China’s path is conceived as a transition of an economically […]

BRI: great opportunities for Angola

28/10/2023 CEN_net 0

Angola refutes West’s allegations over so-called ‘debt issue’ as untrue and unfair. The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has generated numerous opportunities for partner countries, including Angola, as noted by João Baptista Borges, the Angolan Minister of Energy and […]

BRI transforms Bulkan railways

27/10/2023 CEN_net 0

A Decade of Transformation: The Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact on Balkan Region Railways and Infrastructure. The Beijing Times looks at the newly revamped Hungary-Serbia Railway and its transformative effects on everyday life in the Balkans. Balkan Railways Reimagined with […]

The East is red and green

21/10/2023 CEN_net 0

In a recent review of Carlos Martinez’s book The East is Still Red – Chinese socialism in the 21st century, Stefania Fusero provides a detailed summary of the chapter on China’s environmental record (China is building an ecological civilisation), including a […]

Africa adopts Chinese hybrid rice

20/10/2023 CEN_net 0

The water-saving and drought-resistant rice developed by the Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center has passed various approvals in several African countries, such as Uganda in the second half of last year, according to a researcher at the center. Kenya and other […]