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Uganda’s Entebbe-Kampala Expressway – BRI project connects major cities and international airport

December 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

Tourists and visitors traveling through Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport can save time between their destinations thanks to the 51-kilometer Kampala-Entebbe Expressway that was constructed by Chinese contractors. The recently commissioned Entebbe-Kampala Expressway gives the travel manager easy access to his destination as the expressway stretches from the outskirts of the capital and leads to the main airport, cutting a 2-hour-long journey to only around 30 minutes. Entebbe airport is Uganda’s […]

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“Ecological Bank” brings benefits to Chinese farmers – opens another door for green funding

December 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

Liangshan Bank Thanks to the local “Liangshan Bank,” green resources that were once deemed useless by farmers are now assets. The name “Liangshan Bank,” or “the bank of two mountains,” came from the “two mountains” concept of Chinese leadership, according to which “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.” Apart from being a traditional lender, Liangshan Bank acts as a platform to integrate green resources and transform them into […]

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China’s BRI – new global green investment

December 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

The immense regional as well global popularity of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has now rattled the policy makers sitting in the Washington DC and Brussels to start their own impromptu so-called global mega projects of development. The so-called the Build Back Better World (B3W) with the commitment to invest up to $40 trillion and EU sponsored the Global Gateway Strategy (GGS) with 300 billion Euros. Both global […]

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Chinese company director sentenced to prison for illegal production of ozone-destroying chemicals

December 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environmental Protection has adopted “zero tolerance” for businesses found illegally making or using CFC-11. The evidence shows that China has delivered on this commitment. In February 2021, a Chinese company and its director were convicted of illegally making CFC-11. Both the company and director were given significant fines, and the director was also sentenced to 10 months in prison. This was the country’s first prison […]

Wild yak population continues to rise at reserve in North West China

December 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

VIDEO – click to view. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orgPa3yw1fY The number of wild yaks has increased by 3,000 to reach around 12,000 over a decade at a nature reserve in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to the latest research released on in December 2021. With the development of the fourth scientific expedition at Altun Mountain National Nature Reserve in Xinjiang, the monitoring of wildlife overwintering in the protected area has also […]

Draft list of protected animals promotes human-nature harmony

December 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

The National Forestry and Grassland Administration released the draft of a new list of terrestrial wild animals with important ecological, scientific and social importance on Dec 5 to solicit public opinion. Compared with the earlier list, published in 2000, a notable change is the removal of wild boars as a protected species. The exclusion of wild boars from the list is being seen as course correction, as these animals have […]

Tibet-Kathmandu railway in focus as China vows change for landlocked Nepal

December 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

China announces it will help Nepal realise its dream of becoming a ‘land-linked country’ US$8 billion cross-border railway from south Tibet to Kathmandu is key project in Belt & Road plan in South Asia In May 2017, Nepal joined the BRI with a hope of obtaining long-term benefits through a myriad of projects. The line has already reached Xigaze (or Shigatse) in Tibet. In July 2020 the next secton of […]

China building world’s largest national park system

December 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

This autumn, without much fanfare, China established a new government initiative that could have a profound impact on the nation’s increasingly threatened biodiversity. In October, President Xi Jinping announced the formal establishment of a network of five national parks, covering a total of 230,000 square kilometers (88,800 square miles) and containing nearly 30% of the country’s key terrestrial wildlife species. China, this year’s host for the United Nations biodiversity conference, has […]

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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: $62 billion BRI plan to build Pakistan

December 14, 2021 CEN_com 0

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a mega plan that has the potential to revolutionize the Pakistan economic reality. CPEC has contributed to resolving the serious electricity shortage in Pakistan — a big hurdle to industrial development. Before the commercial operation of a number of energy projects under CPEC, Pakistan was suffering a severe power crisis, with 12-18 hours of load shedding in a day, interrupting industrial production. However, in recent years, […]

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Ecological corridors help expand giant pandas’ habitat

December 13, 2021 CEN_com 0

CHENGDU, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — The ecological corridors established in west China have connected fragmented habitats of wild giant pandas, expanding their habitat range and facilitating the hybridization among different subspecies. At least two video clips showed giant pandas in the ecological corridors earlier this month, indicating that various subspecies from different areas were moving via these corridors, making high-quality cross-breeding possible. In mid-October, China officially designated the first group […]