The first national big data lab was founded at the end of last month in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province. Serving as a cross-regional cooperation platform, it is expected to attract global researchers, managers and decision makers in the big data industry.
A mountainous province in Southwest China, Guizhou is renowned for its cultural diversity and pristine natural beauty. The province is trying to highlight characteristics unique to the province to boost its eco-tourism industry.
At the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, China vowed to cut its carbon emissions per GDP by 40 to 45 percent and raise the percentage of its total energy mix supplied by clean energy to 15 percent by 2020.
In July 2013, when President Xi Jinping met with his then Swiss counterpart, Ueli Maurer, in Beijing, Xi said that the natural conditions of China's Guizhou province were similar to those of Switzerland and that he hoped the two could cooperate on ecological and economic development. Today, Switzerland and Guizhou are well on their way to a cooperative partnership.
China's greenhouse gas emissions could peak in the next five to 10 years, earlier than previously expected, which would contribute to efforts to curb global warming, according to a report jointly published by two institutes at the London School of Economics in early June.
For the past 34 years, Tian Renyi has patrolled Juchi Mountain in Guizhou province with an ax and a wooden stick in case he has to fend off a wild animal like a bear or cougar.
Forest cover will take up more than half of the total land area of Guizhou province by the end of 2017, according to a three-year plan by the provincial government.
China is experiencing growing pains as urbanization progresses, said Wu Jiang, vice-president of Tongji University of China in Shanghai. "Green urban planning can help ease that pain."
The Beijing government is asking the public to recommend role models in Beijing who perform good deeds, starting from May and continuing through September.
Bai Yunlong has the chubby, genial look of an American chef in his uniform that puts diners at Frost, his eatery in Beijing, at ease. But the 48-year-old, whose birth name is Jeffrey Powell, is also adept at making his Chinese neighbors comfortable, especially when he offers them free lessons in English.
Hao Diangui first started climbing a nearby mountain to improve his own health but, years later, he has also contributed greatly to the environmental health of Cuiwei Mountain.
Chinese people love hosting feasts, and feel embarrassed, or "lose face", if guests eat all of the dishes. Xu Zhijun has tried to change this mindset, and he won support from many celebrities, media outlets and the government.
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