Norwegian Minister for Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoere Monday applauded China's scientific research efforts in the Arctic. "Developments in the Arctic have global effects...China can make a valuable contribution," Stoere said in a speech delivered at the China Institute of International Studies in Beijing.
In the exhibition area of the World-Wide Fund for Nature in the International Organization Joint Pavilion of the World Expo in Shanghai, there are two national treasures of China—pandas and Pere David's deer (usually called milu in Chinese)—both among the rarest 10 species in the world.
The Chinese consume millions of tons of genetically modified (GM) soybean oil every year without fuss despite the fact that attitudes toward GM food remain as divergent in the nation as they are in the rest of the world. China needs to step up agricultural innovation, including development of its own GM varieties, in response to climate change and to reduce reliance on foreign technologies, top agricultural expert...
An emperor penguin couple hatched their first chick in an ocean park in northeast China, a long way from their previous home in the Antarctic. The hatching at Dalian's Laohutan Ocean Park in Liaoning Province was the first successful one in China.
Recalling the nightmare early on Wednesday, Yang Guihua did not want to believe it was true. The mudslide destroyed the 34-year-old's house in Migu village, Puladi township of Gongshan Derung-Nu autonomous county in Southwest China's Yunnan province, leaving her 9-year-old son missing.
Science is rising in the east. China's strategies for economic development, which are centred on creating a world-beating science base, don't sound like much. They go by odd names: the 863 Programme and Project 211, for instance, and the Torch and Spark programmes. But they are proving to be more powerful than even the Chinese government could have hoped.
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