Senior Chinese government officials have ramped up calls for the stability of power supplies, with key meetings and inspections being held, amid surging demand for electricity driven by the summer heat waves that have lasted for weeks.
US climate envoy John Kerry arrived in Beijing on Sunday to start discussions of climate issues with China. The stultifying temperature in the Chinese capital and elsewhere around the world may once again remind Kerry of how pressing it is to tackle global warming, but those warning signs are not enough to prevent Washington from hobbling climate cooperation between the two countries. Chinese observers expected that little, if any, concrete progress will yield from the talks, and slim possibility for the two to go back where they were in 2021.
Electricity generated from the world s largest solar plant built inside a salt farm, with a generating capacity of 1 million kilowatts, was connected to the grid on Saturday in North China s Tianjin Municipality.
China s longest deepwater oil and gas pipeline has entered the final stage before operation, following the completion of work on laying the submarine long-distance pipeline in waters off South China s Hainan Province on Saturday, according to China Media Group (CMG).
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