Month: September 2024

Protecting one of the world’s last truly wild frontiers – The Qinghai-Xizang Plateau ecosystem. One year on, China’s law on Qinghai-Xizang Plateau ecosystem protection bears fruit. In late August, a forest security team ventured deep into the rugged wilderness of Hoh Xil, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site in northwest China’s Qinghai Province. Often called a “forbidden zone for human life,” this patrol marked yet another step forward in protecting one of […]

China’s Energy Transition, a White Paper that documents the country’s changing energy mix, was released on Thursday, 29 August, 2024. Major shifts have taken place, according to the National Energy Administration. By the end of 2023, more than half of the increase in electricity consumption across China had come from new, clean energy sources. The proportion of clean energy consumption in total energy consumption had risen from around 15.5 percent […]

Seven new biodiversity zones have been established by PetroChina, China’s largest oil and gas producer, Xinhua reports. The areas are located in the Changqing Oilfield in northern China‘s Ordos Basin, the Tarim Oilfield in Xinjiang, and Kunlun Energy’s LNG storage facility in Hainan, explained PetroChina. They fall into the category of Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures. OECMs, as defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), are areas […]

Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with scholars from several renowned Chinese universities, discovered an unidentified mineral crystal enriched with water molecules on the moon from the Chang’e-5 lunar samples, a breakthrough that indicates that for the first time, molecular water was found in lunar soil, the Xinhua News Agency reported in July. With a newly discovered method to produce water on the moon, it […]

“The world is in for another China shock”. On China’s top current affairs show, prestigious China scholar Zhang Weiwei explored how the four pillars of Western hegemony—economic, technological, military, and ideological—are deeply shaken today. Zhang Weiwei is Professor of Political Science and Director of the China Institute, at Fudan University. Professor Zhang Weiwei’s full commentary is below. At a technological level, the rise of the non-Western world, particularly China, is striking. During […]