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China is expected to further step up the development of pumped-storage hydroelectricity during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), as part of the nation's broader efforts to deliver on its climate commitment of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, experts said on Friday.

Thanks to Chinese courts' increasingly greater efforts to punish polluters, the country's ecology and environment has improved over the past decade.

River cruises on the Yangtze River have seen lukewarm business this year, hampered by high temperatures in Chongqing and local COVID-19 cases in Sichuan province.

The country is exploring cloud seeding, GM crops, and a multibillion-dollar water-transfer system to address its worst water shortages on record.

Rooftop solar panel program provides local electricity, eliminates poverty by creating jobs, boosting income

Factories in China's southwest have shut down and a city imposed rolling blackouts after reservoirs to generate hydropower ran low amid a worsening drought, adding to economic strains at a time when President Xi Jinping is trying to extend his hold on power.

On Sunday, You Si-kun, "president" of the "legislative yuan" of Taiwan said the island could hit Beijing with its missiles. You also made sure to mention they wouldn’t attack the Three Gorges Dam in advance.

As June 3 marks the Dragon Boat Festival, a series of cultural activities are being held in poet Qu Yuan's hometown - Zigui county in Central China's Hubei province.

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