From Salt Flats to Rice Fields
Xinjiang’s achievement underscores a broader lesson: Reclaiming saline-affected land is rarely the result of a single technological breakthrough.
Xinjiang’s achievement underscores a broader lesson: Reclaiming saline-affected land is rarely the result of a single technological breakthrough.
Rich nations caused the climate crisis. Now they’re exporting its costs onto the nations that didn’t.
Over the past years, China has made steady progress in protecting biodiversity by adapting to new situations and seeking innovations.
Urumqi is becoming one of the engines behind China’s clean energy transition, while still holding onto a cultural identity defined by centuries at the crossroads of China and Central Asia.
Across Inner Mongolia, solar panels are appearing alongside new vegetation, turning stretches of desert into hubs of both energy and growth.
Over the past 75 years, Xizang has not only undergone a historic social transformation but has also ushered in a remarkable chapter in ecological civilization on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.
China’s innovative assessment mechanism, using strict internal evaluation to ensure the fulfillment of emission reduction commitments, demonstrates the country’s strategic determination to pursue green and low-carbon development, steadily reduce carbon emission intensity and continuously enhance ecological carbon sink capacity.
China’s rapid clean energy transition, long-term policy framework, and structural decoupling of growth from carbon intensity position it as an emerging global climate leader.
The reason the economics work so well, and the reason the green transition is now genuinely affordable for developing countries that once could not imagine it, is largely due to China.
China is advancing a national strategy to develop net-zero carbon factories, driving the greening of key industries.
As the new legislation further balances economic development and environmental protection, China will accelerate its progress in turning the vision of a Beautiful China defined by clear waters, green mountains and clean air, into reality.
‘Locking’ of the Taklimakan desert’s edge is a beginning. The challenge now is not only to hold the line but to widen it, to make it yield economic benefits, and to ensure its long-term ecological and social viability.