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China to boost forest and grass industries

March 15, 2022 CEN_com 0

China aims to boost the annual output of its forest and grass industry to 9 trillion yuan ($1.42 trillion) by 2025, according to a five-year plan released recently by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration. In the next four years, China will establish a relatively complete modern forest and grass industry and build itself into a leader in the international trading of forest and grass products, with annual imports and […]

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Chinese scientists explain how bats facilitate virus transmission

March 15, 2022 CEN_com 0

KUNMING, March 14 Chinese researchers have found that an immunosuppressive protein concentrated in the bat salivary glands could help the animal facilitate virus transmission. Bats are increasingly considered potential reservoirs of many viruses that cause zoonotic diseases through spillovers to other animals and humans. However, scientists have a limited understanding of the factors contributing to virus shedding from bats. According to researchers from the Kunming Institute of Zoology under the […]

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China builds photovoltaic green hydrogen plant in Xinjiang

March 15, 2022 CEN_com 0

In Dec 2021, the China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) launched China’s first 10,000-ton photovoltaic green hydrogen plant in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday, which is expected to produce of 20,000 tons of green hydrogen each year. Sinopec, the largest oil refiner of China, will carry out the world-class project in Kuqa City, Aksu Prefecture in Xinjiang with an investment of nearly three billion yuan (about 470 million U.S. […]

United States and European Union are heading for the rehabilitation of fascism

March 14, 2022 CEN_com 0

March 4, 2022 Appeal of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation        These days, trying to avoid a complete defeat, Bandera fascists are taking hundreds of thousands of residents of Ukrainian cities hostage. Threatening death, the nazi do not let civilians out of the combat zone, condemning them to the role of a human shield. Repeating the heinous tactics of Hitler’s troops […]

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Rural women plant trees and hope in south China desert

March 14, 2022 CEN_com 0

When Tao Fengjiao was struck by lightning while planting trees in south China’s Hainan Province, she emerged largely unscathed, with only a plume of black smoke rising from her hat. Her fellow planters, all women, were terrified and thought that Tao had been killed, until she slowly got to her feet. “They all said that the miracle testified to the old saying that ‘one good turn deserves another.’ It must […]

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BRI cooperation with China “transformational” for Pakistan

March 14, 2022 CEN_com 0

Cooperation with China under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) “has transformed Pakistan’s economic landscape,” Pakistani Ambassador to China Moin ul Haque said. In a recent interview with Xinhua, Haque spoke highly of the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship BRI project, saying it is “transformational” for his entire country. Besides the Gwadar Port, which he said has become the crown jewel of the […]

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Brazil’s vegetation coverage rises despite new Belt & Road hydropower project

March 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

Spanning from the Amazon area in Brazil’s northwest to Rio de Janeiro in the southeast, the 2,543-km-long Belo Monte-Rio de Janeiro 800kV power transmission line is the world’s longest. The super project covers the Amazon rainforest, the Cerrado savanna and the Atlantic coastal mountains, where many rare plants grow. When the project was finished, the vegetation coverage didn’t decrease; on the contrary, it increased. And behind that result is the […]

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China: a green 2021, a greener 2022

March 13, 2022 CEN_com 0

China planted 3.6 million hectares of forest and converted 380,800 hectares of farmland into forest in 2021, according to a bulletin released by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Friday. The bulletin was released a day prior to China’s Tree-planting Day which falls on March 12 every year. Wuling Mountain in Beijing./VCG The bulletin covered green achievement in aspects like forests, grasslands, wetlands, anti-desertification, forest fire control and popularity […]

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China domesticated geese 7000 years ago – first bird domesticated for food in the world, say scientists

March 12, 2022 CEN_com 0

New research findings suggest that the inhabitants of Tianluoshan, an ancient rice cultivation village in the lower Yangtze River valley in China, domesticated geese 7,000 years ago, making them the oldest domesticated poultry species in the world. The goose may be the oldest domesticated poultry in the world’s history, with evidence from China suggesting that the birds may have existed among humans thousands of years ago, according to a new […]