Shared by The Red Enviromentalist to China Environment on FB from Nature, 10 Sept 2021. Original Nature article shared here. If China’s experimental reactor is a success it could lead to commercialization and help the nation (and the world) meet its climate goals. Scientists are excited about an experimental nuclear reactor using thorium as fuel, which is about to begin tests in China. Although this radioactive element has been trialled […]
It is impossible to understand China’s efforts to create an “ecological civilization” without understanding the context of its economic and cultural modernization . To understand China today it is essential to understand the struggle by the Communist Party of China to rapidly modernize that country – just as it is not possible to genuinely understand China’s efforts to create an “ecological civilization” without understanding the context of the economic modernization. […]
Another 268 plants have been added to China’s List of Wild Plants under State Priority Conservation, highlighting the central authorities’ resolve to protect the country’s biodiversity. The list, released by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Wednesday, now covers 455 wild plants. Fifty-four species, including Pinus squamata (Qiaojia pine) and Taxus, are under top-level protection, with the other 401, including Fritillaria and Danxiaorchis (Danxia orchid), under second-level […]
The new Kunming-Singapore railway, a massive network of railways that is under-construction. The huge rail network will connect China, Singapore, and the rest of the mainland countries of Southeast Asia. Note, according to ASEAN Today : “Plans to build a multi-billion-dollar high-speed railway linking Singapore and Kuala Lumpur have been officially canceled, according to a joint statement from both governments released on January 1, 2021. The two governments were reportedly […]
New energy vehicle (NEV) ownership exceeds 6 million in China. The number of newly registered new energy vehicles in the first half of the year was a record high of 1.103 million, an increase of 774,000 units or 234.92 percent compared with the same period last year. Compared with the first half of 2019 the figure increased by 473,000 units, or 74.94 percent. China’s New Energy Vehicle Industrial Development Plan […]
Chinese researchers say they have made “breakthrough” findings of the behavior of rare snow leopards after months of tracking them in northwest China using satellite technology. After gaining prior approval from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Qilian Mountain National Nature Reserve together with the Wildlife Research Institute of Beijing Forestry University launched satellite tracking of snow leopards for the first time, starting from early this year. The researchers […]
As China accelerates its shift toward clean energy, a photovoltaic power generation park has been built in the northwest of China’s Qinghai Province. Desertification used to mean animal husbandry was unsustainable in this part of China a decade ago. But now, people and their animals are returning. Some of the world’s largest solar farms, located in the desert in Qinghai Province in north-western China, have embraced an age-old method of […]
Pioneering Discoveries for a Cleaner Planet – Professor Akira Fujishima Japanese mainstream media “Mainichi Shimbun” on September 2 reported that a leading figure in the field of “photocatalysis”, Japanese scientist Professor Akira Fujishima, had led his research team to join full-time the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Professor Fujishima has been nominated for several Nobel Prizes, and is a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Fujishima […]
High on the rooftops of Beijing are hundreds of thousands of plants. But these are no ordinary gardens. This vegetation is designed to lower the temperature of the city, reduce flooding and lower energy consumption. This is China’s Green Roof Revolution. The first green roofs were created in China in the 1960s. But in recent years, the number of green roofs have…. Well….gone through the roof, thanks in part to […]
Science and technology of agriculture is becoming more and more interesting. China has a large water area. The cultivation of floating rice combined with fish aquaculture is being promoted. This new agricultural model is showing the potential to bring great value to the increase in food production and income for farmers. (ECNS) — Lu Xiangrong, a Chongyi villager, contracted a 20-mu (about 1.34 hectares) pond to breed freshwater fish in […]
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