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The Fengning pumped storage power station in north China’s Hebei Province, which will provide green electricity to the Beijing Winter Olympics, started operations on 31 December 2021. To achieve carbon emission reduction, China is developing new sources of energy, such as wind and solar, and adjusting the energy structure are among the priorities. China is putting efforts to expand its pumped hydro energy storage over the next decade, aiming to […]

The Fengning pumped storage power station in north China’s Hebei Province, which will provide green electricity to the Beijing Winter Olympics, started operations on 31 December 2021. To achieve carbon emission reduction, China is developing new sources of energy, such as wind and solar, and adjusting the energy structure are among the priorities. China is putting efforts to expand its pumped hydro energy storage over the next decade, aiming to […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a deep reverence for Nature while addressing the leaders’ summit of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) via a video link on Tuesday. President Xi said that people need to respect Nature, follow Nature’s laws and protect Nature, so as to build a homeland of harmonious coexistence between man and Nature. Beijing on Tuesday […]

SHANGHAI, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — A variety of unmanned vehicles, instead of farmers, are busy harvesting rice ears in a field in the outskirts of Shanghai. A 300 mu (20 hectares) rice field in Waigang Township, Jiading District, is Shanghai’s first unmanned farm pilot. Agricultural vehicles equipped with China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) shuttle between a warehouse and the field, automatically avoiding obstacles in their way to carry out […]

Introductory comments Western media commentators most commonly use annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per country to describe carbon output, but this is a very misleading way to identify the actual dynamics behind carbon emissions. As China is the most populous nation, it is no surprise that this approach lends itself to painting China as the “bad player”. Many experts believe that China, whose emissions are high in part because it […]

Part 1 – Afforestation vs. Reforestation A key finding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) new special report is that it is likely that some degree of “afforestation” will be needed to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Afforestation involves planting trees in areas that haven’t recently had any tree cover, in order to create a forest. The type of land planted could include areas that have turned […]

China’s forest cover has increased from 8.6% in 1949 to 23% in 2020. Reforestation efforts have resulted in a 32% increase in China’s tree cover since 1990. Globally, NASA estimated that China’s programs to conserve and expand its forests contributed about 42% of the total global greening trend it observed in a 2019 study of satellite data. Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, with over 4.7 million hectares – […]

Centuries before sugar planting spread across the Atlantic, tea and trees were in widespread cultivation in China. China is often left out of the story of the age of plantations, yet it deserves to be included. Long before sugar planting spread across the Atlantic, tea and mulberry trees were in widespread cultivation in China, the progenitors of the plantation economy. Within the last thousand years, pine, camphor, bamboo, tung, tallow-tree, […]

At the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September last year, China announced that it would aim to achieve peak CO2 emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. This is a major strategic decision made by the Communist Party of China to achieve sustainable development for the Chinese nation and build a community of a shared future for mankind. It demonstrates China’s […]

“The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature….Human beings can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by religion or anything else you like. They themselves begin to distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they begin to produce their means of […]