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Cambodian expressway funded under Belt and Road over 70% completed

December 13, 2021 CEN_com 0

The expressway is one of the Cambodia-China cooperation projects under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Nearly 71 percent of the construction work on the Chinese-invested Phnom Penh – Sihanoukville Expressway has been completed despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cambodian Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) said in a news release on 12 December 2021. Road Traffic Technology reports that the 190km-long Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway will be the largest […]

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China-aided rural water project in Cambodia completed

December 12, 2021 CEN_com 0

KAMPONG CHHNANG — The second phase of the China-aided rural water supply project in Cambodia has come to an end, constructing 964 pumping wells and 54 community ponds in 10 provinces, officials said here on 9 Dec 2021. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the completion of the two-year project, Cambodian Minister of Rural Development Ouk Rabun expressed his profound gratitude to the government and people of China for funding […]

Exploring China’s solar thermal power generation technology

December 12, 2021 CEN_com 0

Like sunflowers, more than 4,000 mirrors, each covering 138 square meters, are arranged in concentric circles, concentrating thousands of beams of sunlight onto the central heat absorption tower. This is a molten salt solar thermal power station, located in the Qaidam Basin in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, an area with rich solar energy resources. At the top of the 188-meter-high tower, the heat absorber accumulates energy to heat up molten […]

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China’s top regulator announces peak-emissions strategy for data centres and 5G networks to support net-zero goals

December 12, 2021 CEN_com 0

Key points: According to the SCMP outines the key points are: China will relocate non real-time data centres from eastern to Western regions to utilise abundant supply of wind and solar energy there Plan comes with a warning to local governments to prevent unchecked developments and detrimental practices in land, finance and tax matters China has revealed its plan to reduce emissions in “digital infrastructure,” such as data centers and high-speed (5G) […]

China supports progress and sovereignty in Latin America – “Great Wall against American hegemonism”

December 12, 2021 CEN_com 0

“Since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, 19 of the 33 countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region have signed up to the China-led global infrastructure development strategy. … Economic links between Latin America and the People’s Republic of China have been expanding at a dizzying rate. Bilateral trade in 2000 was just 12 billion USD (1 percent of Latin American’s total trade); now it […]

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Landmark China-built Belgrade-Budapest Railway breaks ground in Serbia 

December 11, 2021 CEN_com 0

The construction of a new section of the China-constructed Belgrade-Budapest Railway was launched in Novi Sad City, Serbia, on Monday, with high-ranking officials from Serbia, Hungary and China marking the launch with a groundbreaking ceremony. The 350-kilometer Budaphara-Serbia Railway is a landmark project of China and the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). VIDEO: https://youtu.be/5XEDer0Q9k0 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto and Chinese […]

China’s CO2 emissions see fall since post-lockdown surge

December 11, 2021 CEN_com 0

Extracts from Carbon Brief: Clean energy and electric vehicles pick up pace The effect of China’s new policies and policy expectations is showing clearly in investment in the flagship low-carbon technologies solar, nuclear, wind and electric vehicles. Accelerated deployment of these technologies will be a key component of delivering China’s carbon goals. The Figure 1 below shows that some 26 gigawatts (GW) of solar and 16GW of wind were installed in the first nine […]

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China’s Shanxi province strengthens grassland protection

December 10, 2021 CEN_com 0

Shanxi is a province in North China with a large area of grasslands. According to the census on grassland resources in the 1980s, the province’s natural grassland area is 45,520 square kilometers, accounting for 29 percent of the province’s total area. Grasslands in Shanxi are mainly distributed in the marginal areas of the Taihang and Lyuliang mountains and the central basin. There are six major types of grassland in Shanxi, […]

Unused rooftop in Shenzhen, China turned into urban recreational skypark

December 10, 2021 CEN_com 0

A good idea for rooftops everywhere: Put them to public use. Seventeen million people live in Shenzhen, China—it is the electronics workshop for the world. A giant rail terminal and depot for repairing trains were built near the bridge to Hong Kong, with a roof 1200 meters long and 50 to 60 m wide, about 15 m high. The building acted as a giant wall, cutting the residential areas off […]

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China and Pakistan work hand in hand for green CPEC

December 10, 2021 CEN_com 0

The Chinese and Pakistani governments have been supporting each other in nature conservation and practicing the idea of a green Belt and Road to promote the high-quality development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. ISLAMABAD, Dec. 9, 2021 — China and Pakistan are keeping their commitment to making the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) a green project, and enable future generations to have a green environment. Besides the green CPEC initiative, the […]