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How China will protect one-quarter of its land
▻http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01563-2

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China’s dramatic growth has brought staggering air and water #pollution. So some people are surprised to learn of a major initiative to protect more than one-quarter of the Chinese mainland — an area almost the size of France, Spain, Turkey, Germany and Italy combined, totalling more than 2.4 million square kilometres.

Called the China Ecological Conservation Red Line (ECRL), the initiative began in 2011, building on ten years of local practice and drawing on economic, population, ecological and other government and academic data. The ECRL implements strategies I developed in 2010 to identify and protect important ecological systems. Plans are already in place for 15 provinces, including Beijing and the Yangtze River economic area. The rest will be completed by the end of the year.

#Chine #environnement

Paradise Lost: Solomon Islands under threat from logging | Global Witness
▻https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/forests/paradise-lost

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Our new investigation, using detailed research, satellite imagery, drone photography and trade data, conclusively shows that tropical timber across the Solomon Islands is being harvested on an unsustainable scale, and that much of the activity driving this environmental destruction is at high risk of being illegal.

We mapped all the logging roads in the country and found that they cover a distance twice the length of China’s Yangtze River, despite the Solomon Islands being 338 times smaller than China.

Seven maps that explain logging in the Solomon Islands
▻https://www.maphubs.com/single-post/2018/11/06/Seven-maps-that-explain-logging-in-the-Solomon-Islands

#bois #forêt #déforestation #cartographie #îles_Solomon

Long March - Timeline
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1931: Unofficial founding of the Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet by Mao Zedong and Zhu De.
1931: December, Zhou Enlai arrived in Ruijin and replaced Mao as leader of the CCP.
1932: October, at the Ningdu Conference, the majority of CCP military leaders criticized Mao’s tactics; Mao was demoted to figurehead status.
1933: Bo Gu and Otto Braun arrived from the USSR, reorganized the Red Army; and took control of Party affairs. They defeated four encirclement campaigns.
1933: September 25, the Fifth Encirclement Campaign started. Bo and Braun were eventually defeated.
1934 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek encircled the Communists in Jiangxi.
1934: October 16, 130,000 soldiers and civilians, led by Bo Gu and Otto Braun, began the Long March.
1934: November 25 – December 3, Battle of Xiang River.
1935: January 15–17, Zunyi Conference. The leadership of Bo and Braun was denounced. Zhou became the most powerful person in the Party; Mao became Zhou’s assistant.
1935: June–July, troops under Zhou and Mao met with Zhang Guotao’s troops. The two forces disagreed on strategy, and separated.
1935: April 29 – May 8, crossing of the Jinsha River, the upper stream of the Yangtze River.
1935: May 22, Yihai Alliance, the red army allied with the Yi people.
1935: May 29, CCP forces captured Luding Bridge.
1935: July, CCP forces crossed the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains.
1935: August, CCP forces crossed the Zoigê Marsh.
1935: September 16, CCP forces crossed the Lazikou Pass.
1935: October 22, three Red Army fronts met in Shaanxi. The Long March ended.
1935: November, Mao became the leader of the CCP. Zhou became Mao’s assistant.

#histoire #Chine

BBC - Future - The Chinese are obsessed with building giant dams

▻http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151014-the-chinese-are-obsessed-with-building-giant-dams

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If anyone doubts that the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is as much about national prestige as flood control and hydroelectric power, they should pay it a visit. A tour bus will take you 40km (25 miles) from the gritty river city of Yichang and through military checkpoints guarding the visitors’ centre. You get the state-approved experience this way: ferried by electric buggy between vantage points showcasing the phenomenal engineering of the project, with chunks of the immense construction machinery displayed like historic artifacts.

#chine #barrages #eau #trois_gorges

modified bicycle across the Hanjiang River - Ideas of Jugaad
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Lei Zhiqian rides a modified bicycle across the Hanjiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in Wuhan, on June 16, 2010. The bicycle, equipped with eight empty water containers at the bottom, was modified by Lei’s instructor Li Weiguo, who hopes to put his invention into the market. (Reuters/China Daily) - Raffa

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