Month: February 2022

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China plans regional caps to conserve water

February 12, 2022 CEN_com 0

The country’s per capita water resources are less than one-third of the global average. China plans to develop a stricter water conservation framework by introducing regional usage caps and water rights trading schemes amid depleting resources, according to the Ministry of Water Resources. In a notice Tuesday, the ministry said that specifying regional water availability caps would be high on its agenda, and be used as a basis to define initial water access rights […]

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China set to further low-carbon push

February 12, 2022 CEN_com 0

New measures in pipeline to boost non-fossil energy’s role in promoting green transition China’s nonfossil energy will not only meet the country’s incremental energy demand but also replace fossil fuel stocks on a large scale by 2030, authorities said on Thursday. A statement jointly released by the National Energy Administration and the National Development and Reform Commission on Thursday said China will come up with an integrated institution and policy […]

The end of US neo-liberalism – the meaning of Biden’s change in US economic policy

February 12, 2022 CEN_com 0

In the US President Biden is carrying out a revolution in economic policy which, without openly acknowledging it, in fact admits the failure of US the neo-liberal economic policies pursued during the last 40 years. Entirely abandoning the neo-liberal goal of “small government” Biden has unleashed the greatest increase in peacetime government spending in US history. This scale of increase in US government spending today entirely dwarfs previous peacetime US […]

US calls for China to adopt policy to kill millions of Chinese by Covid in name of “human rights”

February 11, 2022 CEN_com 0

The following article was published by John Ross in Learning From China. It was orginally appeared in Chinese at Guancha.cn on 29 January 2022.https://www.learningfromchina.net/us-calls-for-china-to-adopt-policy-to-kill-millions-of-chinese-by-covid-in-name-of-human-rights/ ******* Few issues show more clearly the real difference between the pro-human oriented policies of socialism in China and pro-capital oriented policies of the U.S. than the two countries response to the Covid pandemic. The U.S., while verbally proclaiming support for “human rights”, is actively campaigning for a […]

China is winning the battle against air pollution

February 11, 2022 CEN_com 0

National air pollution action plans devised by China have seen significant reductions in pollution levels and associated health risks. Air pollution levels in the main Chinese cities at the beginning of the 1980s were almost exactly at the level of London at the height of the Industrial Revolution in 1890. In response to London’s Great Smog of 1952, the United Kingdom introduced the first air pollution law in the world […]

Striving for low-carbon agriculture: China’s story

February 10, 2022 CEN_com 0

The following article by agricultural scientists, Professors Pan Genxing and Cheng Kun, of the Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture at Nanjing Agricultural University, China, is republished from China Dialogue. Based on the changes discussed in the following article, they are confident that green agriculture in China has a bright future, and calculate that: Increasing carbon in the soil, reducing fertiliser use and using straw for biochar and […]

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China to build thousands more ecological farms by 2025

February 10, 2022 CEN_com 0

BEIJING, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) — China plans to build more ecological farms in the coming years to advance modernization and green development in the agricultural sector, said a guideline published Wednesday by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. China aims to build 1,000 national ecological farms and 10,000 local ones nationwide by 2025. They will be agriculture production and operation entities, targeting maximum sustainable output while seeking to match […]

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China’s top economic planner issues notice on urban environmental infrastructure construction

February 10, 2022 CEN_com 0

China will promote further construction of urban environmental infrastructure to support green development. China will establish a comprehensive, efficient, intelligent, green and safe modern environmental infrastructure system by 2030, according to guidelines issued by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and three other government bodies. By 2025, they said China would build an environmental infrastructure system integrating sewage, garbage, solid waste, hazardous waste and medical waste treatment facilities as […]

The New Vision for Belt and Road

February 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

With over 150 countries and international organizations participating in the Belt and Road, the initiative will be built into a more open and innovative one.  Compared with nine years ago, when the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first proposed, the current international landscape has greatly changed with both favorable and unfavorable factors popping up for cooperation on the initiative. More and more countries are now supporting and embracing the vision. It […]

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China’s response to climate change encourages others

February 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

Climate change is a real challenge facing all nations alike now. The temperature is rising in cities and various adverse effects including untimely rainfall, heatwaves, droughts, storms, floods, wildfires, and crop failures are being observed across the world. It is really distressing that during the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from October 31 to November 13, 2021, held in […]