Efforts of growing organic vegetables that brings much less damage to the farmland paid off as Yunnan Province in southwest China has been trying to deliver its promise to better protect its natural recourses. In the trail field under the management of Yunling Organic Agriculture Development Co., Ltd , the organic matter in soil has been improved whereas content of some heavy metals has been reduced ever since the organic […]
On September 2, 2018 Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, launched 10 Billions Trees Afforestation Project to plant 10 billion trees in the country including additional one billion seedlings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by 2023. The Billions Trees Afforestation Project (BTAP) of the Pakistani government is the world’s 4th biggest plantation project successfully implemented by Pakistan after China, India and Ethiopia. On March 1, 2022 Pakistan’s Forest Department said it has expedited […]
The following article by two Ecuadorian conservation experts asks whether debt-for-nature swap proposals could be an opportunity for China and Ecuador to reshape the two countries economic relationship, by deepening strategic cooperation with Chinese conservation researchers and supporting the development of sustainable livelihoods in collaboration with indigenous communities? Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and had […]
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Wednesday released a strategic action plan to support scientific and technological efforts to achieve the country’s carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. The plan aims to solve core scientific and technological issues to promote an energy revolution, industrial optimization and upgrading, and a green and low-carbon technological revolution, thus providing strong scientific and technological support for the country’s carbon targets. By 2025, the […]
“Beijing has demonstrated to the world over the past 20 years that a megacity with a rapidly increasing GDP, vehicle count, population and energy consumption can move forward to cut air pollution effectively. The PM2.5 reduction over the past few years has surpassed that of developed countries during the same period.” Yu Jianhua (Beijing Municipal Ecology & Environment Bureau) Joint efforts bring environmental improvements to Chinese capital In addition to […]
China’s electricity market reforms have reached an inflection point, with the potential to play an increasingly large role in accelerating the transition to clean energy, argues Anders Hove, in an article originally published by China Dialogue. Power shortages and recent energy policy announcements in China have drawn renewed focus to the topic of energy security, particularly to the supply of coal and coal-fired electricity. The recent scramble to boost coal supply and […]
The Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant, in Lianyungang, East China’s Jiangsu Province, is the largest Chinese Russian joint venture ever, and will become the world’s largest nuclear power plant upon completion. A decade in the making, it will help China reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce cheaper and safe energy. Construction of the No.8 unit of the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant, the last reactor unit of China and Russia’s largest nuclear […]
Beijing’s Green Olympics did not pretend to be in a natural wonderland. As the world gets warmer and glaciers continue to disappear, it forces us to confront an uncomfortable truth: Big Air Shougang may be the world’s first permanent Winter Olympics venue of its kind, but it won’t be the last. Haig Balian Lots of snarky comments were directed at the site of the big air competition during the Olympics. […]
Context The Central Document No. 1, released on 22 February proposed promoting green development of rural agriculture and further implementing the five-year action plan to improve the rural living environment by 2025. Participation of the peasants determines the effectiveness of these goals. However, according to Wang Xiaoli and He Jianying, at present, peasants have a low level of participation in and low motivation for environmental governance. Summary The authors summarize […]
It’s perhaps a sad story for those trying to lose weight. The giant panda stays a rotund figure despite being almost a vegetarian. Now, Chinese zoologists have found out why. The study published on Wednesday in the journal, Cell Reports, revealed that changes in the gut microbiota, the bacteria living in the gut, may play a part. The colony of a kind of probiotics expands in the season when nutritious […]
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