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The Aysha wind power project, part of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), broke ground in May 2018, with the project costing $257 million USD. China’s Dongfang Electric International Corporation, a state-owned enterprise specializing in the production of power-generating equipment, was contracted by Ethiopia to build the wind farm. The project is 85 % is funded by Exim Bank of China with the Ethiopian government funding 15%. Ethiopia signed-up […]

The China-built Redstone Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) Project in South Africa, the first-of-its-kind in sub-Saharan Africa, is due to be connected to the grid in early September 2024. CSP plants produce electricity by concentrating solar thermal energy using mirrors to reflect the sun to a receiver that collects and stores the heat energy to power a steam turbine connected to an electricity generator. CSP is used in utility-scale applications to help […]

Türkiye has formally applied to join the BRICS group, a move that underscores its ambition to enhance global influence and forge new alliances beyond traditional Western partners. Türkiye joined the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative in 2015. The launching of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI ) by China and Türkiye’s Middle Corridor (MC) have provided wider scope and greater potential for China, now the world’s second-largest economy by nominal GDP, and Türkiye, a […]

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 […]