BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- China has seen increasingly vibrant innovation in green and low-carbon technologies during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), with 53,000 invention patents granted in this sector in 2024 alone, said a senior intellectual property (IP) official on Thursday. The 2024 figure, which doubled that of 2020, reflects an average annual growth rate of 19.
BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have developed an innovative electrified catalysis strategy that removes more greenhouse gases than it generates, achieving net-negative emissions, according to a research article published in the journal Science Advances on Saturday. Carbon dioxide and methane are the two major greenhouse gases caused by human beings.
NANJING, July 9 (Xinhua) -- On the rooftops of Shuangjing Village in the city of Xuzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, rows of gleaming solar panels shimmer under the summer sun, resembling a vast azure sea from a distance. The installation is part of a village-wide distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation initiative led by the State Grid Xuzhou Power Supply Company.
BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday issued a document to support the development of zero-carbon industrial parks, aiming to accelerate the country's green transition. The document, released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and two other government departments, encourages localities to build zero-carbon industrial parks that can reduce carbon dioxide emissions to "near zero" through advanced planning, design, technology and management, and eventually achieve net zero emissions.
