Month: May 2024

China’s biodiversity pledge

May 28, 2024 CEN_com 0

Cover photo: Oriental white storks fly over the Caofeidian wetland in Tangshan, north China’s Hebei Province. /Xinhua From species to ecosystem: China’s conservation commitment for biodiversity and human well-being. Jiang Zhigang is professor in Conservation Biology at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His work mainly focuses on inventory, red list assessment, and conservation of animal diversity. The following opinion piece appeared in CGTN. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment of the […]

China’s EV battery swaps speed charging

May 28, 2024 CEN_com 0

China is home to almost half the world’s electric vehicles, 85% of the world’s fast chargers and 65% of slow chargers, and leads the world in EV infrastructure. Now it’s innovating on battery swap stations: roll up, swap out the battery, and drive off. Rarely seen globally, they are already thousands of battery swap stations across China. The International Energy Agency hailed China a “leader in global battery swapping infrastructure.” IEA Battery swapping is still […]

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Xi-Putin on Environment, BRI and BRICS

May 27, 2024 CEN_com 0

Joint statement between the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation on deepening their comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era. At the invitation of President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation conducted a state visit to the People’s Republic of China from May 16 to 17, 2024. The presidents of China and Russia signed a joint statement […]

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Fishing ban revives Qinghai Lake ecology

May 27, 2024 CEN_com 0

Decade long fishing ban sees significant recovery in ecology of China’s Qinghai Lake. LARGEST SALINE LAKE IN CHINA Once a bustling site yielding up to 10,000 tons of fish annually, Qinghai Lake has seen its ten-year fishery closure initiated in 2021, reflecting a decisive step taken to combat the consequences of over-fishing and to restore its ecological balance. In the vast expanse of China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau lies Qinghai Lake, the […]

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China updates biodiversity database

May 27, 2024 CEN_com 0

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has announced that China has released the updated version of the national species database, known as the Catalogue of Life China 2024 Annual Checklist. The list recorded a total of 155,364 species and subspecies, up 6,690 from the 2023 figure. The work on this updated China database began in 2008 with the aim of illustrating the annual biodiversity conditions in the country and fostering biodiversity […]

Climate funding strings for poor nations

May 24, 2024 CEN_com 0

Climate funding: wealthy countries attach strings for developing world. Japan, France, Germany, the United States and other wealthy nations are reaping billions of dollars in financial gains as part of developed nations’ pledge to provide $100 billion a year to poorer countries to help them reduce emissions and cope with extreme weather from climate change. The promised US$100 billion a year is just a fraction of the US$1.8 trillion that […]

China’s biodiversity pledge

May 23, 2024 CEN_com 0

Cover photo: Oriental white storks fly over the Caofeidian wetland in Tangshan, north China’s Hebei Province. /Xinhua From species to ecosystem: China’s conservation commitment for biodiversity and human well-being. Jiang Zhigang is professor in Conservation Biology at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His work mainly focuses on inventory, red list assessment, and conservation of animal diversity. The following opinion piece appeared in CGTN. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment of the […]

China’s EV battery swaps speed charging

May 23, 2024 CEN_com 0

China is home to almost half the world’s electric vehicles, 85% of the world’s fast chargers and 65% of slow chargers, and leads the world in EV infrastructure. Now it’s innovating on battery swap stations: roll up, swap out the battery, and drive off. Rarely seen globally, they are already thousands of battery swap stations across China. The International Energy Agency hailed China a “leader in global battery swapping infrastructure.”  IEA Battery […]

China’s Massive Shift From US Dollar Assets

May 22, 2024 CEN_com 0

US ATTEMPTS TO RESTRICT CHINESE GREEN TECHNOLOGY China dumps record $53.3 billion of US treasury and agency bonds in the first quarter of 2024. The news of the largest ever Chinese sell-off of US dollar assets emerged following three recent key events: Over time China has significantly reduced its stake in the US treasury market, which was 14% in 2011 but had dropped to 3% by the end of 2023, […]

China’s Massive Shift From Dollar Assets

May 22, 2024 CEN_com 0

US ATTEMPTS TO RESTRICT CHINESE GREEN TECHNOLOGY China dumps record $53.3 billion of US treasury and agency bonds in the first quarter of 2024. The news of the largest ever Chinese sell-off of US dollar assets emerged following three recent key events: Over time China has significantly reduced its stake in the US treasury market, which was 14% in 2011 but had dropped to 3% by the end of 2023, […]