China’s Long March-8 Y1 rocket was vertically transported to the launching area of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province on Wednesday. Next, the rocket will be filled with propellant and readied for launch in late December.
As Trump hails launch of COVID19 vaccines, makers of dry ice and related machines in China working in full swing to respond to soaring demand for cold chain, with some firms’ orders from US up 10-20 times y-o-y.
The ultra-cold temperatures required for storing the Covid-19 vaccine developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and Germany-based BioNTech has driven a buying frenzy for freezers and dry ice. However, large-scale freezers units are expensive — and with hospital budgets already strained during the pandemic, dry ice has emerged as the go-to option. Thank you, Trump!
12-13-20 Bahraini government has registered a COVID19 vaccine developed by Chinese producer CNBG after reviewing its phase 3 clinical trial data that shows 86% efficacy rate, and 100% efficacy in preventing medium and severe symptoms.
CNBG, a subsidiary of Sinopharm, said Sat that it expects to produce 1 billion doses of COVID19 vaccine next year. So far, it has carried out phase III clinical trials in 10 countries and regions worldwide on 60,000 subjects.
In a speech delivered on Saturday at the Climate Ambition Summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping made three proposals:
1. to close ranks and make new advances in climate governance that features cooperation and win-win;
2. to raise ambition and foster a new architecture of climate governance where every party does its part; and
3. to boost confidence and pursue a new approach to climate governance that highlights green recovery.
China will lower its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by over 65 percent from the 2005 level, and increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 25 percent.
China will increase its forest stock volume by 6 billion cubic meters from the 2005 level, and bring its total installed capacity of wind and solar power to over 1.2 billion kilowatts
12-11-20 China Railway Construction Corporation and the Ministry of Transport of Argentina on Fri signed a contract worth $2.6 billion to improve the General San Martin Cargo Railway, the largest railway project signed by a Chinese company in Latin America.
The line is one of the South American country’s three main cargo railways, connecting western productive provinces with the eastern agricultural export region.
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez presided over the signing of the 2.6 billion-U.S. dollar contract, the biggest contract in a series of railway agreements signed Friday with Chinese companies.
Under the contract, the CRCC will provide the engineering, technology and equipment.
The agreement seeks to rehabilitate the railway corridors of the San Martin line, improve its infrastructure to boost cargo capacity from 3 million to 9 million tons, and increase train operational speed from 40 to 90 km per hour, according to the president’s office.
The project will renovate 1,813 km of the railway line, benefiting the provinces of Buenos Aires (center-east), Santa Fe (center), San Luis (west), Cordoba (center) and Mendoza (west), and eventually directly generate some 16,830 jobs.
12-11-20 The 1st batch of China-made COVID19 vaccine arrived in Cairo on Fri. Egyptian Minister of Health & Population Hala Zayed said China’s vaccine is safe and she had been one of the volunteers for clinical trials. China’s vaccine received final emergency approval from Egypt on Wed.
