Month: December 2021

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China’s largest agricultural germplasm resources survey makes progress

December 5, 2021 CEN_com 0

China’s largest survey of agricultural germplasm resources, launched in March this year, has made progress, with some endangered resources rediscovered, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Tuesday. The survey will spend three years completing a comprehensive survey of crops, livestock, poultry and aquatic resources to identify the types, quantity, distribution and traits of resources, and rescue, collect and protect a number of rare, endangered and unique resources. “Up […]

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Guinea-Bissau joins Belt and Road Initiative

December 5, 2021 CEN_com 0

China and African nation Guinea-Bissau, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), making the African nation the latest member of BRI, according to the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planner. The MOU was signed on Nov. 22 by Chinese Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau Guo Ce and Suzi Carla Barbosa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea-Bissau, the commission said in a statement. […]

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China’s Hong Kong SAR: all new cars may be electric by 2030

December 5, 2021 CEN_com 0

All new cars in Hong Kong could be electric by as early as 2030 – five years ahead of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government’s target. Transport contributed some 17 per cent of the Hong Kong SAR’s carbon dioxide emissions last year. The SAR government is stepping up policy support to lift the take-up of emission-free vehicles, including subsidies for electric car purchases and private charging infrastructure according to […]

Fukushima radiation to affect entire Pacific Ocean in 10 years

December 4, 2021 CEN_com 0

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 water from around the spring of 2023. China and other countries have expressed serious concerns about Japan’s decision to discharge […]

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Maldives power grids to be transformed into a hybrid renewable energy system by China

December 4, 2021 CEN_com 0

🔴 A Chinese renewable energy firm has signed an agreement with the Maldives to provide a hybrid solar-diesel power system in the inhabited islands of an atoll south of capital Male. Sino Soar Hybrid (Beijing) Technology Co. Ltd has won the bid for the mini-grid project in August 2021. The Maldives environment minister Shauna Aminath and the company’s project manager signed the agreement on Monday. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) […]

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Eritrea Joins Belt And Road Initiative

December 3, 2021 CEN_com 0

The north-east African country Eritrea has signed an MoU with China to join the Belt And Road Initiative. The MOU was signed on November 25, 2021 by the Chinese Ambassador Cai Ge and Eritrea’s Foreign Minister Osman Saleh. Eritrea is strategically important as it has access to the Red Sea, the Suez Canal and to Europe, as well as to waters in the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea and […]

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Vietnam: China delivers 1.56 GW wind power projects

December 3, 2021 CEN_com 0

Vietnam’s wind power market is the most mature in Southeast Asia. Vietnam has abundant wind resources. The coastline of more than 3000 kilometers in the coastal area ensures good wind speed. Energy consumption in Vietnam will continue to grow at an average annual rate of 8% until 2030. Wind energy and other renewable energy sources will become an important way to meet socialist Vietnam’s growing energy needs. Prior to the […]

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China’s production of ‘green hydrogen’ from offshore wind to help Japan’s net-zero transition

December 3, 2021 CEN_com 0

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 University in the US, have explored the possibility of producing hydrogen by electrolysis using power generated from offshore wind in […]

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BRI skeptics won’t prevail

December 2, 2021 CEN_com 0

BEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — Recently, a New Delhi-based “think tank” Observer Research Foundation (ORF) groundlessly questioned the win-win nature of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), indulging in an unwarranted smear that it only exports carbon emissions to BRI nations, and brings China a “double win.” Considering what has truly happened along the Belt and Road, those observers must have come to their green-eyed conclusion through a colored lense. […]

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China has over 700 Przewalski’s horses due to conservation efforts

December 2, 2021 CEN_com 0

The Przewalski’s horse species became extinct in the wild in China in the early 1980s, and the Chinese government started to re-introduce the horse breed in 1984. In 1986, the Xinjiang Wild Horse Breeding and Research Center was set up for breeding and rewilding of Przewalski’s horses and, after years’ efforts, it has made breakthroughs in releasing them into the wild. The population of the Przewalski’s horses in China has […]