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China rolls out independently built typhoon-resistant offshore wind turbine

February 23, 2022 CEN_com 0

Shared by China-Environment-News.com on Facebook The 13-megawatt typhoon-resistant offshore wind turbine independently developed by Dongfang Electric Corporation rolls off the production line in East China’s Fujian province on Feb 22, 2022. A 13-megawatt typhoon-resistant offshore wind turbine independently developed by Dongfang Electric Corporation rolled off the production line in East China’s Fujian province on Tuesday. The wind turbine has the largest single-unit capacity and the largest impeller diameter in Asia among […]

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China outlines tasks to advance rural vitalization in 2022

February 23, 2022 CEN_com 0

China unveiled its “No. 1 central document” for 2022 on Tuesday, outlining key tasks to comprehensively push forward rural vitalization this year. As the first policy statement released by China’s central authorities each year, the document is seen as an indicator of policy priorities. Work on agriculture and rural areas has been high on the agenda for 19 consecutive years since 2004. The document called for efforts to stabilize and […]

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‘Seawater rice’ could feed 80 million Chinese

February 20, 2022 CEN_com 0

New salt-tolerant rice strains have been developed by Chinese scientists in the hope of ensuring food security that’s been threatened by rising sea levels. Test fields in Tianjin recorded a yield of 4.6 metric tons per acre last year, higher than the national average for production of standard rice varieties. Jinghai district in northern China is hardly a rice-growing paradise. Located along the coast of the Bohai Sea, over half […]

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Omicron variant: New York City spike also infected wild deer population

February 16, 2022 CEN_com 0

China Environment has previously reported that COVID-19 was rife among populations of wild white-tailed deer in the United States and that the virus had established ‘reservoirs’ in the wild deer population. See Corona virus rife in common US deer and Coronavirus infections increase among deer in US, new study shows. Update: Delta variant in imported hampsters sparks out break in Hong Kong Genomic analysis of viral samples from the hampsters (Syrian […]

Worst drought in 60 years hits China’s Guangdong province: influenced by climate change

February 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

Guangdong province receives plenty of rainfall, but rapid economic growth and climate change are nevertheless causing an emerging problem. In late December last year (2021) the Chinese news outlet Caixin reported that multiple major Guangdong cities had issued warnings to residents that they may face a water shortage as the southern province has been struck with its biggest drought since 1979. Technology hub Shenzhen has mobilized emergency response resources to […]

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Reducing surface layer ozone pollution could significantly increase wheat yield in East Asia: study

February 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) — Chinese researchers have discovered that halving the ground level ozone pollution dose could increase wheat yields by more than 20 percent, the Science and Technology Daily reported Thursday. The climbing concentration of surface ozone pollution hinders crop growth and reduces yields, according to the report. The researchers from the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology worked in cooperation with nine other institutions to assess […]

The New Vision for Belt and Road

February 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

With over 150 countries and international organizations participating in the Belt and Road, the initiative will be built into a more open and innovative one.  Compared with nine years ago, when the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first proposed, the current international landscape has greatly changed with both favorable and unfavorable factors popping up for cooperation on the initiative. More and more countries are now supporting and embracing the vision. It […]

China questions US biowarfare labs

February 9, 2022 CEN_com 0

China questions purpose of US bio-warfare labs in 30 overseas countries Published 2022/03/09 According to data published by the U.S., America has 26 bio-labs in Ukraine, which are under absolute control of the U.S. Department of Defense. The United States should receive multilateral check for its biological militarization activities and make a relevant clarification, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on 8 February 2022. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made […]

China and Argentina sign nuclear power project deal

February 7, 2022 CEN_com 0

Nucleoeléctrica Argentina and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) have signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the development of the Atucha 3 nuclear power plant. World Nuclear News, 2 Feb 2022 reports: “The nuclear power plant, to be sited near Lima, about 100 kilometres north west of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, will use China’s Hualong One technology – the HPR1000 reactor, which will use enriched uranium as fuel and […]

Fact-checking Western media reports on Beijing Winter Olympics

February 1, 2022 CEN_com 0

With Beijing 2022 approaching, the Western media oligarchies are spreading rumors, speculation and false claims about the green nature of the games, and health and safety. The claims are just more of the politically motivated American racist rubbish typical of the US media oligarchs. Xinhua takes a closer look at the facts reveals that there is no truth behind those claims. ******* BEIJING, Jan. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) — With roughly […]