Energy & Climate Change~

Ensuring a balance between environmental protection and economic development is a challenge for the world, especially for China, a country which has undergone fast-paced development. On July 1, China announced the realization of Xiaokang society, or “a moderately prosperous society in all respects,” with its GDP soaring to about $15.7 trillion last year from 67.9 billion yuan in 1952.  Meanwhile, public satisfaction with the ecological environment reached 89.5 percent, an increase […]

The Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Dongying City, east China’s Shandong Province, has become the largest breeding ground for oriental storks around the world, authorities in the province announced at a press conference on Saturday. In 2005, there were only seven oriental storks living in two nests at the reserve, but now there are 105 nests with 306 oriental storks. A total of 1,639 oriental storks have been […]

Xi Jinping to deliver COP 15 keynote speech The United Nations (UN) meeting on biodiversity takes place this week in the southwestern Chinese city Kunming. It will be the largest global gathering on the topic in a decade and is expected to provide a global roadmap for conserving and restoring biodiversity and ecosystems for the next 10 years. Chinese President Xi Jinping will on Tuesday (Oct 12) attend via video […]

China on Friday issued the country’s first white paper on biodiversity, detailing how the world’s most biodiverse country has endeavored to protect its ecosystems in pursuit of harmony between humans and nature. The white paper, titled “Biodiversity Conservation in China,” came days ahead of a key United Nations (UN) biodiversity meeting to be held in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming. The move bears great significance as the UN begins […]

LHASA — Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region spent 20.23 billion yuan (about 3.1 billion U.S. dollars) on ecological protection from 2016 to 2020, according to the local environmental authority. The amount more than doubled the spending for the previous five-year period, the region’s ecology and environment department said Wednesday in a statement. The funds were mainly used in projects targeting afforestation, wetland protection and restoration, nature reserve construction, natural forest […]