The value of China’s energy imports showed continuous growth in the first four months of 2022, despite the continuous drop of import volumes, as global prices soared caused by geopolitical uncertainty, according to official data on Monday.
President Xi Jinping has called for proactive and prudent steps to advance carbon emissions peaking and carbon neutrality initiatives, while also stressing the need to ensure the security of energy, food, and industrial and supply chains in reducing carbon emissions, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed fully grasping the urgency and arduousness of realizing the country’s goal of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, and he called for solid implementation of decisions and arrangements made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday.
Unit 6 of China National Nuclear Corporation’s (CNNC) Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant in Southeast China’s Fujian Province, the country’s second nuclear unit using Hualong One technology, a domestically developed third-generation reactor design, reached criticality for the first time on Saturday, marking its official entry into operation at power and an important step toward commissioning.
While the East Chinese city of Haiyang s adaptation of nuclear power plant residual steam - China s first city to do so to heat homes - has triggered certain safety concerns, experts and industry insiders have dispelled such concern in recent days, stressing that the heating process does not involve exchanging hot water or radioactive substances, and thus is ultra safe and reliable.