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THIS WEEK SOCIETY
Setting the Sights High
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2022. The highway is scheduled for completion in mid-2023.
National Park System
China has selected 49 candidate
areas for building national parks
to better protect wildlife species
and their habitats, according to a
spatial layout plan for the coun-
try’s national park system made
public on December 29, 2022.
The 49 candidate sites,
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1.1 million square km. These sites
include 44 land areas, three sea
areas, and two land-sea areas.
They were selected based on
their ecological importance,
unique natural landscapes
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the plan, jointly issued by the
National Forestry and Grassland
Administration, the Ministry of
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Finance, the Ministry of Natural
Resources and the Ministry of
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If all 49 candidate parks are
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largest national park system in
the world in terms of protected
areas, according to the plan.
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brate species and 29,000 types
of higher plants inhabit these
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of China’s strictly protected
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Mental Health Rehab
China has issued a circular on
starting a three-year campaign
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nationwide, Xinhua News Agency
reported on January 4.
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Issued by the Ministry of
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Commission and two other
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plans to establish an information
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ties, community rehabilitation
centers and patients with mental
disorders across the country.
The circular requires all
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to set up community psychiatric
rehabilitation centers with as-
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It also stresses that staff of these
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training.
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ties jointly issued a guideline,
planning to make community
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by 2025.
Water and Soil
Conservation
China has released a guideline
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of water and soil to promote the
construction of an ecological
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News Agency reported on
January 3.
The guideline, jointly re-
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the Communist Party of China
Central Committee and the State
Council, details China’s targets
to strengthen water and soil
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By 2025, China aims to im-
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of soil and water, enhance
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key regions, with 73 percent
of the nation’s territory being
without soil erosion by that date,
per the guideline.
By 2035, a systematic,
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be formed, human-induced soil
erosion will be fully controlled
and soil erosion in key areas will
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Areas without soil erosion should
account for 75 percent of the
nation’s territory by that date,
according to the document.
Wind Power Project
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onshore wind power project con-
nect to the state grid and enter
operation on December 31, 2022.
The 400,000-kilowatt wind
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billion kilowatt-hours of clean
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satisfy a whole year’s power
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demand for nearly 600,000
households.
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345,000 tons of standard coal
and reduce carbon dioxide
emissions by 912,000 tons
annually, according to the
northeast branch of the State
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constructor.
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 producing regions.
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turbines, each with a capacity
of 5 megawatts, in addition to a
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energy project completed by the
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 coal transportation, ensuring
The company plans to
build more new-energy bases in
Liaoning and neighboring Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region
and increase its installed capac-
ity of clean energy to 6 million
kilowatts before the end of the
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Coal Channel
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103 million tons in 2022, which
means China has upgraded an-
other energy transport corridor
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million tons of coal annually,
according to China Railway
Taiyuan Bureau Group Co. Ltd.,
Xinhua reported on January 3.
The railway, which begins
in Watang Township in Shanxi
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transportation channel con-
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railway saw its annual transport
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million tons last year.
The channel is also a major
route for China’s west-to-east
the country meets its energy
consumption demand.
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Flights
Entering the new year, China
Eastern Airlines has increased the
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for the C919 large passenger
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large jetliner.
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People are seen at a cafe in a large commercial complex transformed
from an old thermal power plant in Tianjin Municipality on January 1.
The Tianjin No.1 Thermal Power Plant, founded in 1937, closed in 2011.
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to Beijing Daxing International the training of nine pilots, 24
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Shanghai. On January 2, it tenance personnel for the C919
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including dispatch and release, ing the jetliner’s commercial
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Party Planning
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NEV Sales
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reported a robust sales increase
in 2022 thanks to fast market
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data showed.
BYD Co. Ltd., the country’s
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million units in 2022.
Startup carmakers like Li
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same period, an annual increase
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of 34 percent.
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of GAC Group, sold some
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general manager, said GAC
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500,000 units this year.
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ing to the China Association of
Automobile Manufacturers.
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likely hit 9 million, a year-on-
year increase of 35 percent.
Authorization Reform
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canceled registration require-
ments for businesses engaged
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from December 30, 2022, fol-
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Trade Law, the Ministry of
Commerce said.
Authorities will no longer
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foreign trade operator registra-
tion materials when applying for
import and export licenses, regis-
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import and export contracts,
quotas, state-owned trade
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documents.
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China’s Comprehensive Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI)
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opening up, the ministry said.
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Shanghai Port remained the
world’s busiest container port for
the 13th straight year in 2022,
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port data showed on January 2.
The port’s container through-
put exceeded 47.3 million twenty-
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2022, according to Shanghai
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Ltd., the port’s operator.
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year, the port guaranteed the
stable operation of the Shanghai
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in the second quarter, the port
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