In recent years, China has focused on ecological projects. Forest coverage rate in China stands at 23.04 percent of the country's total surface and the forest stock volume is over 17.5 billion cubic meters. Every billion cubic meters of forest stock volume allows about 1.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide to be captured by forests. It is estimated that over 40 million hectares of land in China can be turned into forests in the future.
China used a Long March 6 carrier rocket to deploy a science satellite on Friday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., the country's leading space contractor. The State-owned company said in a brief statement that the rocket blasted off at 10:19 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province and later placed the Wide-Eye Geoscience Satellite into its preset orbit.
The Victoria 'Dreamer,' a new species of Victoria water lily cultivated in southwest China's Yunnan province, was recently approved by an international authority as a new variety. The cultivation of this new variety started in 2018. Seeds of the Victoria amazonica were utilized for the process of inducing mutations.
In May 2019, scientists found an Asian black-webbed treefrog (Rhacophorus kio) resting at the canopy of a 62-meter-tall Parashorea chinensis tree in Mengla area of Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Five months later, another Asian black-webbed treefrog was found on an epiphyte (Microsorum punctatum) at the crown of a smaller Parashorea chinensis tree in the same region.
Dr. Anton Zeilinger, has been Einstein Chair Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) since 2016. He has long been engaged in the talent cultivation and the international scientific research cooperation between China and Austria. He devotes great efforts to the development and future of young scholars. In addition, he has cultivated a group of outstanding young Chinese scienticts.
Prof. Dale Sanders, Director of John Innes Centre and Board Member of the CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence in Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS) won the 2020 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of China. Dale Sanders, British botanist and director of the John Innes Centre, a world-leading plant and microbial research institute, said his collaborative research projects with Chinese colleagues had the potential to benefit global health and food security.
In the words of Richard Corlett, a world-renowned British conservation biologist, it was China's sincere commitment to biodiversity conservation that brought him to the country's Yunnan province in July 2012. Before then, Corlett had studied tropical plants for over three decades in Southeast Asia. After receiving an invitation from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he happily packed his bags and embarked on a new research journey.
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