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Environmental protection boosts flora, fauna, people

June 18, 2021 CEN_com 0

In Qinghai province, environmental protection has been prioritized, and the province aims to build two more national parks－the Qinghai Lake National Park and the Kunlun Mountains National Park. In recent years, Qinghai has established many nature reserves, forest parks, wetland parks and geoparks, which have boosted the eco-friendly tourist services provided by the province, and raised local living standards from tourism. Improvements to the local ecosystem are attracting visitors and […]

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What Is Afforestation?

June 16, 2021 CEN_com 0

Part 1 – Afforestation vs. Reforestation A key finding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new special report is that it is likely that some degree of “afforestation” will be needed to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Afforestation involves planting trees in areas that haven’t recently had any tree cover, in order to create a forest. The type of land planted could include areas that have turned […]

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China’s All-Electric Fleet Is Entering Europe

June 16, 2021 CEN_com 0

And the timing is ideal. Tesla has another rival in Europe. Days ago, BYD announced the first shipment of 100 all-electric BYD Tang SUVs had left the Port of Shanghai on June 7, bound for dealerships in Norway near the end of this summer, with 1,500 slated for delivery before 2022, according to a press release from the company. This represents a substantial step for EV manufacturers in China, as BYD […]

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China still driving ahead of world in electric smart cars

June 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

By Wang Junwei | chinadaily.com.cn, 2021-06-15 China enjoys a global first-mover advantage in electric smart cars, with its new energy vehicle production and sales volume ranking first in the world for six consecutive years, CCTV reported on Monday, citing a person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In May, China recorded a new energy vehicle market penetration rate of over 10 percent, with over 15 percent […]

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Cuba and China to develop a vaccine against new strains of the corona-virus

June 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

“All the predictions and scientific rationality indicate that unfortunately we will have to suffer new epidemics as a logical result of the increase in world population, animal production and the movement of people,” explained Dr. Gerardo Guillén, director of Biomedical Research at CIGB. Scientists from Cuba and China want to anticipate future pandemics by investigating a potential generic vaccine that protects against different types of coronavirus and possible emerging variants. The Pan-Corona project is […]

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The world has lost one-third of its forests since the last ice age.

June 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

China’s forest cover has increased from 8.6% in 1949 to 23% in 2020. Reforestation efforts have resulted in a 32% increase in China’s tree cover since 1990. Globally, NASA estimated that China’s programs to conserve and expand its forests contributed about 42% of the total global greening trend it observed in a 2019 study of satellite data. Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, with over 4.7 million hectares – […]

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Understanding China’s economic miracle

June 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

China has recorded the greatest economic growth by a major country in the whole of human history. In parallel, China has produced the most rapid increase in living standards of any major country in human history. A new book China’s Great Road collects together in English a number of analyses by John Ross on China’s economy and its relations with the world published in 2010-2021. The reasons for this economic […]

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China signs Agreements with International Renewable Energy body to advance carbon neutrality and market development

June 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, June 7, 2021 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and the National Energy Administration of the People’s Republic of China (NEA) have today agreed to work to strengthen cooperation as the world’s largest renewable energy market builds momentum towards the achievement of its carbon neutrality goals. China has pledged to peak its CO2 emissions before 2030 and committed to the achievement of carbon neutrality before 2060. Under the […]

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Climate issues are rising in importance for Russia

June 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

Russia has been slow to move on climate action – but that is about to change, with the government set to deliver a host of measures on climate change action, with a detailed plan to be published by October 2021. After seven years of sanctions and accusations of malign activities by all sides, political relations between Russia and both the US and the EU are at their worst since the […]

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The China fir and the Plantation Age – environmental history

June 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

Centuries before sugar planting spread across the Atlantic, tea and trees were in widespread cultivation in China. China is often left out of the story of the age of plantations, yet it deserves to be included. Long before sugar planting spread across the Atlantic, tea and mulberry trees were in widespread cultivation in China, the progenitors of the plantation economy. Within the last thousand years, pine, camphor, bamboo, tung, tallow-tree, […]