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Re-tested blood samples still point to COVID-19 in Italy 2 months before China

July 24, 2021 CEN_com 0

On 4 June 2021, China Environment News (CEN) carried a post on Facebook reporting that the World Health Organization (WHO) had requested re-testing of results where antibodies to COVID-19 were found in blood collected in Italy, October 2019, during a lung-cancer screening trial (see links at end of this article). Those blood samples have now been re-tested by a WHO approved virology laboratory at Erasmus University in the Netherlands – […]

Program seeks to popularize science among Chinese girls

July 24, 2021 CEN_com 0

China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, All-China Women’s Federation and 11 other governmental departments recently launched a series of measures to encourage women to play a greater role in science and technology innovation. “I’m thrilled to take the opportunity because it’s been my biggest wish to popularize science among students. They can broaden their horizons and hopefully some of them will devote themselves to the field of neuroscience,” Yang says. […]

Three questions for the U.S. to address regarding furtive Fort Detrick

July 21, 2021 CEN_com 0

By John Lee (ECNS) — More than four million Chinese netizens have signed a joint letter as of 3 p.m. Wednesday, demanding the World Health Organization (WHO) to send virologists, laboratory safety experts and biochemical specialists independent of geopolitics influence of the U.S. to investigate the Fort Detrick biowarfare laboratory. The joint signing points to unanswered questions of wide concern. In July 2019, an unexplained respiratory disease appeared in northern […]

China builds world’s largest floating solar farm

July 16, 2021 CEN_com 0

A massive civil engineering experiment is underway 150 km south of Shanghai and is causing an international wave in more ways than one. Floating technology could potentially be capable of providing 50% of the world’s ongoing energy needs** the clean and green technology being tested at China’s Hangzhou Fengling Electricity Science Technology Solar Park will also provide jobs and nutritious food from aquaculture for local people. So what are the […]

The Lancet: Sinovac vaccine 83.5% effective against symptomatic COVID-19

July 15, 2021 CEN_com 0

Two doses of the CoronaVac vaccine developed by Chinese drug maker Sinovac offer 83.5 percent protection against symptomatic COVID-19, according to a new study published in the top medical journal The Lancet on Thursday. A large-scale randomized controlled phase-3 trial of the inactivated vaccine, involving more than 10,000 participants aged 18-59, was conducted in Turkey between September 2020 and January 2021. The participants were given two doses of CoronaVac 14 days apart. […]

Community seedbanks are protecting China’s crops

July 11, 2021 CEN_com 0

China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs found that of 11,590 grain crop varieties planted in the country in 1956, only 3,271 varieties remained in 2014. In an effort to combat dwindling crop diversity across China, the government has bolstered its system of national genebanks, plus issued recent policy recommendations. These are making positive steps towards large-scale conservation; however, there has been relatively little attention given to the role of […]

China’s oil industry is undergoing a serious makeover

July 8, 2021 CEN_com 0

China’s establishment of a national pipeline network, PipeChina, last October is creating a shift in China’s oil and gas industry, which aims to create greater competition and encourage new players in the sector. The move is also a step towards optimize the industry’s energy consumption structure to enable more use of electricity generated from renewable sources through market trading. PipeChina acquired the oil and gas pipeline assets, storage facilities, and import […]

China takes “hugely important” steps for fighting climate change: U.S. expert

July 4, 2021 CEN_com 0

“In the Chinese government there is complete acceptance of the basic science of climate change, no lack of belief in science“ WASHINGTON, June 9 (Xinhua) — From clean energy technologies to emissions trading program, the Chinese government is taking some steps that are “hugely important” for fighting climate change, a leading U.S. expert has said. “Those include its renewable energy policy which leads the world. The deployment of renewable power […]

Chinese electric battery giant to build ‘gigafactories’ in England, France

July 3, 2021 CEN_com 0

Plans were announced this week for two new electric car battery plants in France and Britain involving Envision, the Shanghai-based company that has quietly built a global renewable energy empire. CGTN has reports: Nissan has launched plans for a vast battery plant, known as a gigafactory, in northeastern England, where it will manufacture new electric vehicles as companies and governments accelerate away from fossil-fuel cars. Chinese battery supplier Envision AESC […]

China eliminates malaria

July 2, 2021 CEN_com 0

The World Health Organization (WHO) on 29 June 2021 certified China as free of malaria, after a decades long effort that saw an estimated annual toll of 30 million cases in the 1940s, including 300,000 deaths, to zero in 2017. Along the way, China developed new surveillance techniques, medicines, and technologies to break the cycle of transmission between the Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria parasites and humans. After maintaining zero indigenous cases […]