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China on Monday morning held a memorial service to bid farewell to Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybrid rice,” who passed away on Saturday. Despite being a busy workday, thousands of people dressed in black showed up and laid flowers at the site in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province. The top rice scientist, who developed the first hybrid rice strain that relieved countless people of hunger, […]

The Chinese government’s new guideline on building an economic system promotes green, low-carbon and circular development. The policy will promote overall green transformation of the economy. It will also stimulate high-quality development, helping reach the goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030, said Lin Boqiang, dean of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy and also a professor at Xiamen University. The State Council, China’s Cabinet, issued a […]

Factory shows off highly automated operation to Western visitors Xinjiang Daqo, a high-purity polysilicon manufacturer in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, sought to debunk accusations of using “forced labor”, as it opened its doors to solar industry analysts from top financial institutions and journalists from English-language media. By showing off its production lines equipped with advanced robots and a small number of workers, the company proved to the guests that […]

China’s output of electricity generated by wind, solar, and nuclear power plants increased by 17.6 percent, 12.5 percent, and 9.6 percent respectively over the past two years ago. Attaching great importance to low-carbon energy development, China is actively promoting energy consumption, energy supply, technology and innovation, and institution upgrading. The country is making multi-faceted efforts to push forward energy revolution for the purpose of building a clean, low-carbon, safe and […]