Beijing's central Xicheng and Dongcheng districts have phased out coal-fired heating stoves, with over 29 thousand households now equipped with electric heaters. The move aims to reduce emissions each year by an estimated 3 thousand ...
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In China's financial hub Shanghai, kitchen stoves now use a new energy source: shale gas, a clean energy that travels more than 1,600 kilometers to the city's homes via a series of pipelines. China has recently made breakthroughs in shale ...
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China's largest rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Corp. has developed a new generation of super graphene capacitors that can power electric buses with higher efficiency and for a longer period. The train maker has produced two types of ...
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Chinese scientists have found that sediment transport in Yellow River was reduced mainly due to anthropogenic changes. The Yellow River was once the world's largest carrier of fluvial sediment, with 90 percent coming from the Loess ...
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Customs staff in Shanghai have seized more than 80,000 pieces of smuggled mink fur and detained 13 suspects. The fur was packed in 671 boxes of fiber, customs said on Thursday. The suspects confessed that they had illegally transport ...
The General Administration of Customs (GAC) said Thursday it has intensified crackdown on smuggling of rare animals and plants through 2015. Customs authorities nationwide discovered 160 smuggling cases from January to November, seizing ...
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Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has produced more than 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas this year, ranking second in the country following Shaanxi Province. According to the latest statistics from the region's ...
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Zoomlion, China's leading construction machinery producer, on Wednesday said it had signed an official agreement to buy a 57 percent stake in Italy's waste-disposal company Ladurner. Zoomlion said it had teamed-up with Mandarin Capital to ...
Telensa, which provides end-to-end smart city solutions using its low power Ultra Narrow Band (UNB) wireless technology, has announced that work has begun on a major new deployment which will cover 55,000 LED streetlights over approximately ...
A weak crude complex which has seen futures values drop to multi-year lows is only adding to an already depressed Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp spot propane market, where demand has failed to benefit from any increase in end-user heating ...
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The order comprises 36 boiler feed pumps, 24 condensate pumps and 8 cooling water pumps as well as 132 process pumps. The boiler feed pumps cover flow rates of up to 500 cubic metres per hour and heads of 2000 metres and above. These pump ...
The global market for functional and barrier coatings for paper and board packaging is expected to reach over $7.1 billion by 2020, according to a new report. Published by packaging industry researcher Smithers Pira, the report found that ...
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Pork prices have jumped around Australia, but a question mark surrounds the course of the latest pork price rise. There is speculation as to whether rise is an opportunistic flow-on by butchers and processors in response to previously ...
Emami Paper Mills is reportedly planning to invest roughly Rs10bn ($149.3m) to increase paper board making capacity at its facility at Balasore in the Indian state of Odisha. The Balasore facility, which was set up at a cost of around ...
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The French parliament has passed a law which will see the implementation of plain packaging for cigarettes, in a move to reduce the number of smoking related deaths in the country. Starting May 2016, the new packaging will come into ...
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