XINING, June 18 (Xinhua) -- A new study has unveiled the key mechanism for alpine grassland carbon sink on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in western China, providing scientific underpinning for ecological security. The study, conducted by researchers from the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology (NWIPB), under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been published in the journal Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
BEIJING, June 18 (Xinhua) -- China's green electricity trading volume surpassed 220 billion kilowatt-hours in the first five months of this year, marking a year-on-year increase of nearly 50 percent, according to industry data released at a forum on Wednesday. According to statistics from the China Electricity Council, with China's new energy capacity and output steadily rising, new-sources power supply is now playing an increasingly active and competitive role in the electricity market.
YINCHUAN, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Zhou Xuelin, a villager from northwest China, bid farewell to his old house, which had been blackened by coal soot, in September last year; the winter days spent choking on soot spewed from coal-heating stoves were finally behind him. The new house Zhou moved into was constructed, under unified planning, by Xingsheng Village in Pingluo County of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
BEIJING, May 29 (Xinhua) -- China has recently unveiled a guideline aimed at improving the system for market-based allocation of resources and environmental factors, amid the country's efforts to speed up the overall green transition of economic and social development. The guideline is jointly issued by the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council.
