Environmental benefits of China’s hybrid solar-fishery projects

December 22, 2024 CEN_com 0

In China, fishery-solar hybrid systems have grown dramatically in recent years. These hybrid system are straightforward: a solar array is installed above the fish pond’s water surface, and the water area beneath the solar array is used for fish and shrimp farming. Fishery-solar hybrid systems come with several environmental and economic advantages, including the ability of the floating photovoltaic power station to effectively reduce the water temperature on hot summer days and shelter […]

China’s Yellow River strategy tackles one of the most persistent environmental challenges in history

December 6, 2024 CEN_com 0

This video takes a look into China’s groundbreaking efforts to manage the Yellow River—one of the most significant engineering feats in the world. Recently, the river’s water transfer project achieved incredible success, removing over 300,000 tons of silt and lowering the riverbed by 5.1 meters, leaving experts astounded. The Yellow River, also known as China’s “Mother River” has long been a source of both life and destruction due to its frequent floods. […]

Can China’s ‘ecological redlines’ help other countries hit conservation goals?

November 30, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s experience of drawing up protected areas and satellite cooperation with Brazil can boost progress towards 2030 targets, scientist Gao Jixi tells Dialogue Earth Around the world, differing financial capabilities and a lack of regional cooperation mean that the availability of biodiversity data varies wildly between countries. Many developing nations are unable to assess the state of biodiversity on their territory, or monitor changes and the impacts of destructive activity, which makes […]

Việt Nam & China to boost energy & rail infrastructure cooperation

November 9, 2024 CEN_com 0

Việt Nam’s Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính is on a four-day trip to China, during which he held talks with leading Chinese companies in infrastructure and energy fields. Prime Minister Chính is seeking increased Chinese investment in energy in ViệtNam, especially wind power, solarpower, LNG power, pump–storage hydropower and transport infrastructure developments. He also urged CRCC to participation in other major infrastructure projects in Việt Nam such as Hà Nội […]

Hot Oceans, Rising Climate Concerns: Chinese scientists raise the alarm

October 14, 2024 CEN_com 0

In 2023, the world’s oceans hit their hottest temperatures ever recorded, a silent yet significant milestone that speaks volumes about the state of our planet. On January 11, 2024, a startling report was published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences by an international research team of 34 scientists from 16 institutions worldwide, led by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The global average sea surface temperature in 2023 rose by […]

Canada-China trade dispute comes amid West’s paralysis of international trade governance

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

Policy complexity of Canada escalating the trade war with China In late August, Canada announced a 100 per cent surtax on electric vehicles manufactured in China, and a 25 per cent surtax on Chinese steel and aluminum products. The move was seen as a deeply hostile protectionist move, and an irresponsible and misinformed violation of World Trade Organization policy.  Reports from China have criticized the announcement, saying that it shows […]

EU’s tariffs on Chinese EVs take away consumers’ choices and block green transition

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

European Union members have voted to impose tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs). Daryl Guppy, former national board member of the Australia China Business Council and Australian representative of the Silk Road International Chamber of Commerce, noted that these tariffs take away European consumers’ choice to buy EVs at a variety of price levels, and will also impact on the achievement or the ability to achieve green economy goals. In […]

China and West are driving in opposite directions on electric cars

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

Top German carmaker VW has reported a 26% year-to-date rise in fully-electric car sales in China—offset by a fall in sales, also of 26%, of the same products in the United States. Sales in Europe also fell, by 14%. The gap is widening, third quarter figures reveal. VW, maker of luxury brands Porsche and Audi, saw fully electric vehicle Q3 sales grow in China by 5.2% – compared to a […]

Ongoing US nuclear contamination of the Pacific Islands

October 13, 2024 CEN_com 0

Forget China: the U.S. is Its own worst enemy Pacific Island countries see U.S. treatment of the Marshall Islands as fundamentally unjust – not only in the past, but in the present – and it has severely damaged their perceptions of the United States. The United States is competing with China for influence and access in the Pacific Islands, a region that could play a crucial role in winning a war in […]