China has the most obese population in the world

According to a 2015 survey of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, there were about 107.7 million obese children worldwide and about 603.7 million adults. The obesity rates for children and adults were 5% and 12%. The highest...

Bayer and CAS SIBS partner to improve wheat yields

Within a 2 year research agreement of Bayer with the CAS Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (ZHU Xinquang), a model for photosynthesis in wheat which grows in a canopy that prevents light from penetrating to the lower leaves will be established and...

China will probe plant life on the moon

According to ZHANG Yuanxun, an engineering researcher at the Center of Space Exploration at Chongqing University, China’s Chang’e 4 lunar probe scheduled for 2018 will carry a 3-kilogram “moon-surface mini ecosphere” of 16 cm diameter and 18 cm height....

Biomass to energy: slow advances in China

In 2015, China’s energy generation from renewables was 12 %, of which only 8 % came from biomass. According to the biomass energy development 135 plan” of the National Energy Board just released, by 2020, at the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan, biomass will...