Articles by CEN_com

China backs African modernization

September 3, 2023 CEN_com 0

China will allocate more resources for Africa’s industrialisation and agricultural modernization – as well as train thousands of African students in vocational skills, Chinese President Xi Jinping promised African leaders during his visit to South Africa for the BRICS Summit. Meeting African leaders for the China-Africa Leaders’ Roundtable Dialogue at the end of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, Xi said China would launch an initiative to support Africa’s industrialisation. Through the new proposal, the […]

Climate change & China’s croplands

September 2, 2023 CEN_com 0

China experienced both extreme heat and “devastating” floods this summer, which had an impact” on food supplies and rice crops. This Carbon Brief article on how climate change is affecting China’s cropland, looks at arable land policies and potential impacts of climate on food security. Official Chinese data shows that at least 1.9m hectares (19,000km2) or 8% of wheat land in China have been affected by a sustained spate of rains – with […]

Climate change & China’s croplands

September 2, 2023 CEN_com 0

China experienced both extreme heat and “devastating” floods this summer, which had an impact” on food supplies and rice crops. This Carbon Brief article on how climate change is affecting China’s cropland, looks at arable land policies and potential impacts of climate on food security. Official Chinese data shows that at least 1.9m hectares (19,000km2) or 8% of wheat land in China have been affected by a sustained spate of rains – with […]

New BRICS members selected

September 2, 2023 CEN_com 0

BRICS+ expansion draws together major energy and natural resources players. The BRICS block will now be home to nearly half – 46 percent to be exact – of the world’s population. Its share of global oil production will be more than doubled at 43 per cent. When you look at the top ten oil producers, the are the United States, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Canada, China, Iraq, the United Arab Emerates, […]

‘China’s economic collapse’ fantasy

August 26, 2023 CEN_com 0

Ignore Western headlines about ‘China’s economic collapse’ Once again, the Western media Establishment, and sadly some on “the left”, are talking up an impending economic disaster in China, when the truth is quite the opposite, as China-based economist John Ross shows. In the last four years, covering the period of the Covid pandemic, China’s economy has grown two-and-a-half times as fast as the US, 15 times as fast as France, […]

Fiji says no to Fukushima waste

August 26, 2023 CEN_com 0

Fijians say no to dumping Japan’s nuclear wastewater in Pacific. “Keep our Pacific nuclear-free!” Hundreds of Fijian people marched on the streets of Suva, raising their voices strongly against Japan’s dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean 

Beijing region air quality improves

August 25, 2023 CEN_com 0

Beijing Daily reports: According to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, the average number of days with good air quality in the #Beijing–#Tianjin–#Hebei region and its surrounding areas in July this year exceeded 50%.

China light-rail starts in Israel

August 23, 2023 CEN_com 0

China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), another Chinese construction giant, built the line’s east segment and several underground stations, and will also take charge of the 14-year operation and maintenance together with China’s Shenzhen Metro and the Israeli partner Tevel Metro. “It is the first time that a Chinese company has won an urban rail transit operation and maintenance project in a developed country,” said Kang Wei, general manager of […]