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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
“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 […]
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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