A clean green sheet on the Silk Road

By Wang Yuke | HK EDITION | Updated: 2023-08-18 13:12
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The world's biggest single-site solar power plant in Abu Dhabi, built with Chinese equipment and expertise, underlines the United Arab Emirates' commitment to deal with climate change and attain its decarbonization goals. Wang Yuke reports from Hong Kong.

The neatly installed photovoltaic solar panels expected to provide 160,000 households in Abu Dhabi with clean electricity, form a stark contrast to the desert. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)

In an unbounded desert some 50 kilometers from downtown Abu Dhabi, there is nothing but neatly arranged rows of solar panels, surrounded by lattice towers, with some sophisticated utilities at the far end of the infinite environment, as well as undulating dunes.

You are left stunned by the isolation, the immensity of Mother Nature, amid the sprawling 21-square-kilometer stretch of terra firma.

However, unlike barren deserts, this vast land, equivalent to 2,800 soccer fields in area and more than an hour's drive from the United Arab Emirates capital, radiates vitality.

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