China targets 25% wastewater reuse by 2025

January 3, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s water-scarce cities to reach 25% wastewater reuse by 2025. During the past decades of rapid development in wastewater treatment, China has accomplished the transition of wastewater treatment from underdevelopment to an industrial powerhouse. China accounts for 21% of the world’s population but only has 6% of the world’s freshwater resource, and it also has the largest amount of sewage discharge. Rapid urbanization and industrialization have created enormous challenges to […]

China’s Solar Mega Project 2024

January 3, 2024 CEN_com 0

THE GREAT WALL OF SOLAR ENERGY China’s energy landscape has undergone a transformative decade, marked by significant advancements in wind, solar, and nuclear power. A recent study highlights the clear scalability winners in China’s low-carbon energy generation, with wind and solar emerging as the dominant forces. The country’s natural experiment in deploying these renewable energy sources has shown their substantial growth and outperformance, particularly in comparison to nuclear energy. The […]

China’s marine plastic waste initiative

January 3, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s Blue Circle environmental initiative gives new solution to marine plastic waste. If plastic waste is dumped into the sea, it will gradually break down into microplastics, exerting continuous and permanent adverse impacts on the environment. How can plastic waste be recycled and turned into useful resources? The Blue Circle environmental initiative, a marine plastic waste program launched in east China’s Zhejiang province, has given the answer to the question. […]

Eurasian Economic Union moves closer to BRICS

January 3, 2024 CEN_com 0

At the heart of the connection between the BRI and EAEU is the mutual coordination of China’s and Russia’s economic interests in Eurasia. The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) groups Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Starting from January 1, 2024, Armenia will take over from Russia the rotating EAEU chairmanship with a one-year tenure. During a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on 1 January 2024, heads of EAEU […]

Russia 2024 BRICS presidency – objectives

January 3, 2024 CEN_com 0

Russia has assumed the one-year rotating presidency of BRICS following its groundbreaking expansion in 2023. Russia holds the chairmanship of BRICS bloc, that from 1 January has expanded to ten members with the entry of Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran. Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed that Moscow will do its best to promote cooperation within the economic bloc. In a statement released by the […]

China key to Mexico’s Electric Vehicle market

January 3, 2024 CEN_com 0

China key player in Mexico’s growing Electric Vehicle market. Mexico Business News reports that Chinese automakers such as BYD, Geely, GAC, JAC, MG, and Chery are taking center stage in Mexico’s automotive industry, becoming instrumental in propelling the development of electric and hybrid vehicles. These companies are poised to dominate the market for battery-powered and hybrid vehicles in the country, according to the Mexican Association of Automotive Distributors (AMDA). China, the […]

China will easily triple renewables by 2030

January 3, 2024 CEN_com 0

China will easily triple renewables by 2030 – So why didn’t China sign the COP28 global pledge ? China Dialogue asked experts why China, despite being a world leader in renewables, has not signed the pledge to triple triple renewable power capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030. The general picture they gave is that the tripling is achievable, but the doubling is a sticking point. Energy efficiency is the size […]

Indonesia wants China water investment

December 28, 2023 CEN_com 0

Indonesia invites China to invest in its water infrastructure projects Antara News reported on 11 September 2023 that Indonesia has invited China to invest in water infrastructure projects in Indonesia and in the development of the new national capital (IKN) Nusantara. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the 18th World Water Congress held in Beijing in September 2023. Indonesia’s Minister for technology, industry, and environment, Endra Saleh Atmawidjaja, […]

China’s 21st century socialism

December 25, 2023 CEN_com 0

Chinese perspectives on 21st century socialism How to Break the Vicious Cycle of Underdevelopment in the Global South A contemporary Chinese saying goes, ‘In 1949, socialism saved China. In the twenty-first century, China will save socialism’. In a 2018 speech to incoming members of the Central Committee, Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) recalled that, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, ‘had socialism failed in China […] then global socialism […]

Russia seeks BRICS alliance on climate issues

December 16, 2023 CEN_com 0

Russia to double renewable generating capacity to 12 GW by 2030 and will seek the formation of a BRICS Alliance on Climate Goals. MENAFN news agency reports that Russia has expressed its intention to form a united front with BRICS nations on global climate issues following the conclusion of the COP28 negotiations in Dubai. The BRICS group, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, will expand in two weeks […]