In a desert region of northwestern China, Liu Li speaks proudly of how the once barren sands have been transformed in recent years into rolling vineyards, helping the region become one of the heartlands of the country’s domestic wine industry. “We have turned a yellow sand area into a golden one,” says Liu, workshop director … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping put the national focus on cultural and environmental protection as part of a four-day trip to a historic heartland in the northwest. During his inspection tour of Gansu province from Tuesday to Friday, Xi called for improved conservation and management of the region’s landscape, from mountain and forest areas, to farmland … Read more
After decades of planning, construction has begun on a massive new dam on China’s Yellow River in the latest water management project aimed at controlling increasing sediment in the world’s muddiest river. The Guxian Water Conservancy Project, which is located midstream on the river between the central provinces of Shaanxi and Shanxi, officially began construction … Read more
According to the Ministry of Water Resources, China’s major rivers and lakes can flag “numbered floods” when their water levels reach the warning level or register a flood of “once in two to five years” magnitude. By 9am on Sunday, the water level at the local measuring station in Guangdong’s Yingde county, which lies along … Read more
