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China’s Coast: Guarding Mangroves

September 2, 2021 CEN_com 0

China’s coastline stretches over 18,000 kilometers and is home to abundant marine life, such as Bryde’s whales, Chinese white dolphins and sea turtles. This series focuses on the species living along the Chinese coastline and the survival challenges they face, tells the stories of frontline conservationists, and discusses feasible measures for biodiversity and ecological protection. In 1990, the National Shankou Mangrove Ecological Nature Reserve was established in Shankou Town, Beihai […]

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What are China’s ecological redlines?

September 2, 2021 CEN_com 0

Ecological conservation redlines demarcate areas that provide important ecological services with the aim of protecting them. These include shallow coastal waters, wetlands, glaciers and forests. China’s ecological redlines policy is creating new protections and a model for sustainable land-use planning that has important lessons for any country wishing to meet the objectives of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. In 1998, catastrophic floods hit the Yangtze River valley, […]

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Laos-China Railway to be Green, Low-Carbon Railway

September 2, 2021 CEN_com 0

The external power grid project along the Laos-China railway has been completed and is now ready to supply power to the railway, which is scheduled to officially open in early December this year. The China Southern Power Grid Company has completed the installation of electricity transmission poles along the Laos-China Railway, saying the railway will be a green, low-carbon electrified railway. The project includes 2,220 transmission poles with a total […]

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About China Environment …

September 1, 2021 CEN_com 0

Global environmental crisis is the product of centuries of Western exploitation of the land, natural resources and labour of the Global South.  Seriously tackling the global ecological crisis must involve a global redistribution of power and wealth from the West to the Global South. We unequivocally acknowledge that in China this has required the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Similarly, in other countries there is no doubt that successfully tackling environmental […]

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Details of plot to harm Hong Kong revealed

September 1, 2021 CEN_com 0

By GRENVILLE CROSS 31 August 2021 About the author: Grenville Cross is a senior counsel, law professor and criminal justice analyst, and was previously director of public prosecutions of the Hong Kong SAR. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Standard, the South China Morning Post, and China Daily. This piece was printed simultaneously with China Daily Hong Kong. Anti-China group secretly financed “independent” inquiry which it then pointed […]

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China and African nations push for new global fund to secure biodiversity accord

August 31, 2021 CEN_com 0

China and African nations are pushing for the establishment of a multi-billion-dollar “global biodiversity fund” to help developing countries meet goals agreed in the UN Convention on Biodiversity being negotiated to protect nature, U.N. officials and observers said. About 195 countries are expected to finalise a new accord to safeguard the planet’s plants, animals and ecosystems at a two-part U.N. summit due to culminate in May next year in the […]

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White Man’s Media: vilification of China and ‘colonisation of the mind’

August 31, 2021 CEN_com 0

Most political colonies have come to an end. But a colonial mind set continues in the Australian media. That colonial media mind set in turn promotes a ‘colonisation of the mind’. By John Menadue, the publisher of Pearls & Irritations. The US Department of Defence maintains, in its own words ‘full spectrum dominance’ throughout the world.  Legacy media in the US and the UK has the same dominance . It […]

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Ocean surface climates may disappear by 2100: study

August 30, 2021 CEN_com 0

Up to 95 percent of Earth’s ocean surface will have changed by the end of the century – oceans will be hotter, more acidic and less hospitable to life unless humanity reins in its carbon emissions, according to research published Thursday.  Ocean surface climates, defined by surface water temperature, acidity and the concentration of the mineral aragonite, which many marine animals use to form bones and shell, support the vast […]

History of mathematics is being revised to be fair to Han contributions

August 30, 2021 CEN_com 0

It’s becoming increasingly clear that many key developments in the history of mathematics were made in China, centuries or millennia before they were found by Europeans. The puzzle over how China suddenly became a global leader in Artificial Intelligence has a simple, widely overlooked answer: mathematics. AI and other Big Data handling techniques are rooted in processes developed thousands of years ago by Chinese scholars. Numeracy has always remained high […]