The country is planning to build a national parks system to promote ecological harmony, as Liu Wei and Li Mengxin report from Changchun for Xinhua Features.
“We must have both gold mountains and green mountains. Clean water and green mountains are as valuable as the mountain of gold and silver.” “A sound eco-environment is the fairest public product, and represents the most inclusive welfare to the general public” “To protect the environment is to preserve our productivity and to improve the environment is to develop our productivity.” “On issues of ecological and environmental protection, people should not cross the line or they will get punished” “We should give higher priority to eco-environmental protection, and protect the environment like we protect our eyes and treat the environment like it is our lives.” “Building a new China in the new epoch of ecological civilization is a major element of realizing the Chinese Dream for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation.”
China, the hosting country of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 15), and the convention's se...
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Heavy snowfall last week pushed down temperatures in Jinyuan village in Qinghai province to a bonechilling -17 C.
Luckily, patches of morel mushrooms planted in...
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project has delivered both socio-economic as well as environmental benefits, said Wang Yisen, a leading engineer of the mega project.
Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta officially inaugurated a 54.66MW solar plant in Kenya's Garissa town on Friday. The 206,272 solar panel plant sitting on 200 acres was financed by the Chine...
Beijing is considering further restrictions on automobile emissions and strengthening inspections of vehicles to further curb environmental pollution, a top official of the capital's legi...
SHANGHAI - East China's metropolis of Shanghai has seen 90 percent of housing estates compliant with the mandatory garbage sorting regulation in effect since July 2019, said Ying Yong, ma...
A diver frees a fish entangled by fishing nets at an ocean ranch near Wuzhizhou island in Sanya, Hainan province, on Sunday. Artificial reefs, coral transplantation and planned ...
The BASIC bloc－Brazil, South Africa, India and China－urged developed countries to close "substantial" gaps in support committed to the Third World as they wrapped up a two-day conference ahead of this year's United Nations climate conf...
