Month: August 2022

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BRI and Indonesia’s Global Maritime Fulcrum: 60% trade growth

August 21, 2022 CEN_com 0

Editor’s Note (GT): While the global situation has been under the shadow of the pandemic and the geopolitical conflicts, current bilateral relations, trade and investment cooperation between China and Indonesia is bucking the trend, with China consolidating its position as Indonesia’s largest trading partner for nine consecutive years, and bilateral trade volume in 2021 increasing by nearly 60 percent year-on-year. China’s investment in various fields in Indonesia have seen a […]

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Emerging technologies to hasten China’s renewable power revolution

August 20, 2022 CEN_com 0

Electricity generation remains China’s major source of CO2 emissions. China Daily reports: Digital technology will play an important role in Chinese power generation enterprises’ transition to a low carbon world by enabling emissions reductions, according to a recently released report. Digitalization tools, including the internet of things, 5G, smart grids and distributed energy resources, along with the electrification of end uses, will play a vital role in the power sector’s […]

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Historic droughts trigger power shortages in China’s Yangtze basin

August 19, 2022 CEN_com 0

Since mid-June, China has been facing the most intense and enduring heat waves since records began in 1961, according to the National Climate Centre. In the past week, the middle and lower Yangtze River basin has experienced exceptionally hot and dry spells in what is supposed to be the flood season, forcing provinces to suspend or restrict power to businesses to ensure supply for households. The Poyang and Dongting lakes, […]

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Iran joining BRICS ‘will add value’

August 19, 2022 CEN_com 0

The 14th BRICS summit took place on 23rd and 24th June 2022 by video conference hosted by China. Iran has applied to become a member of BRICS, and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi was invited by Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the summit. President Raisi gave a speech, elaborating on Iran’s viewpoints on the most important international issues and expansion of cooperation with other countries. According to a report by […]

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Washington’s sanctions on Chinese solar panels: US domestic deployment falls by 50% – global prices up by 30-40%

August 17, 2022 CEN_com 0

The US publication pv magazine reported on 16 August 2022 that a large quantity of Chinese solar panels had been seized by US customs authorities. The seizure were carried out under US anti-China legislation, the so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act” (UFLPA). The legislation is one of many US government actions designed to wage economic warfare against China and to undermine adoption of affordable renewable energy. The US is both […]

Sanctions on Chinese solar – US domestic deployment drops 50%

August 17, 2022 CEN_com 0

Washington’s sanctions on Chinese solar panels: US domestic deployment falls by 50% – global prices up by 30-40% The US publication pv magazine reported on 16 August 2022 that a large quantity of Chinese solar panels had been seized by US customs authorities. The seizure were carried out under US anti-China legislation, the so-called “Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act” (UFLPA). The legislation is one of many US government actions designed […]

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Environmental noise affects mate choice in animals: Chinese study

August 16, 2022 CEN_com 0

Chinese researchers have discovered that noise influences mate choice based on visual information in animals via cross-sensory interference, according to the Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Animal communication is often hampered by noise interference, while little is known about its cross-modal effect and how animals weigh unimodal and multimodal courtship cues in noisy environments. Using tree frogs as experimental objects, researchers from the institute presented […]

China commissions first phase of 200 MW ‘vanadium flow battery’ – scale dwarfs anything else in the world

August 12, 2022 CEN_com 0

Energy Storage News reports that China has commissioned a 100MW/400MWh vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage system in Dalian City’s Shahekou District, which is in Liaoning Province in northeastern China. A vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) is a type of rechargeable flow battery is a type of electrochemical cell where chemical energy is provided by two chemical components dissolved in liquids, that are pumped through the system on separate sides of a membrane. Because of their relative bulkiness, […]

BRI projects bring significant benefits Papua New Guinea

August 12, 2022 CEN_com 0

BRI boosts local living standard, creates jobs, and nurtures skills in PNG Papua New Guinea was the first country in the South Pacific to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on the construction of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Projects undertaken by Chinese enterprises under the BRI have led to fruitful benefits for local people – higher living standards, more jobs and skilled training. China and PNG signed the […]

China vows to honor commitments on climate change – says US must stop finding excuses for its own inaction

August 11, 2022 CEN_com 0

China reiterates commitment to international cooperation on climate change and will honor the promises it has made China refutes U.S. claim that the suspension of climate talks “punishing the whole world Washington can’t speak for world US must stop finding excuses for its inaction on climate change China remains committed to international cooperation on climate change and honors the promises it has made, the top Chinese envoy in Washington said […]