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Green offshore wind power unit coming up

China National Offshore Oil Corp, which is building the country's first deep-sea floating wind power turbine platform, said the platform was moved from Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong province, on Sunday, for installation in an offshore oil field 136 kilometers from Wenchang, Hainan province. With an installed capacity of 7.25 megawatts, it is expected to generate 22 million kilowatt-hours of electricity each year that will serve surrounding gas and oil extraction facilities, saving nearly 10 million cubic meters of natural gas consumption and reducing 22,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year.

Telecom revenues expand in Jan-Feb

Emerging businesses and "new infrastructure" helped expand China's telecommunication industry in the first two months of this year. Business revenues totaled 280.3 billion yuan ($40.8 billion), up nearly 8 percent year-on-year, according to official data. Emerging sectors like internet data centers, cloud computing and the internet of things saw their revenues rise around 26 percent year-on-year, enabling overall telecom business revenues to increase by 5 percentage points. The data also reveal the steady progress China has made in advancing new infrastructure construction. The country had 2.38 million 5G base stations by the end of February, 72,100 more than at the end of last year.

Xinhua - China Daily