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Fluid movement Typhoon to bring lots of Pupils are amazed at a wind, rain to East China ferrofluid device at a sci­ ence fair in Mianyang, Sichuan province, on By LI HONGYANG Thursday. Attached to a [email protected] microphone, the ferrofluid — a liquid with magnetic Typhoon Lingling is approach­ Damage caused by properties — flows in ing the southern part of the East an autumn typhoon rhythm to the sound of a China Sea and reached speeds voice. The 7th China up to 216 kilometers per hour on is relatively great, (Mianyang) Science and Thursday, according to the Chi­ and people in its Technology City Interna­ na Meteorological Administra­ tional High­Tech Expo tion. path should be began on Thursday and As it moves northward, it will cautious.” runs through Sunday in affect the Yellow Sea and then Ai Wanxiu, a chief forecaster the city, with 28 countries Liaoning province from Saturday, with the National Climate and regions involved. the administration said. Center XIAO YUYANG / FOR CHINA DAILY On Friday, strong winds will affect the northern part of the East China Sea, the coastal areas of the Ai Wanxiu, a chief forecaster northeastern parts of Fujian prov­ with the National Climate Center, ince and Zhejiang province and said that autumn is prone to the Yangtze River Estuary. strong typhoons caused by season­ The typhoon will bring heavy al changes and fluctuations in sea rainfall and strong winds to a temperature. wide swath of China, the adminis­ “The landing area of an autumn tration said. typhoon is usually in the south, From Friday to Sunday, rain and the intensity is stronger than Pig farm develops ways to turn and wind will come to seas in East those in other seasons,” she said. China, the south of the Yangtze “Therefore, damage caused by River and Northeast China. an autumn typhoon is relatively The typhoon will lead to some great, and people in its path economic losses. In Heilongjiang should be cautious.” waste into fertilizers and power province of Northeast China, the According to the administra­ precipitation will be greater than tion, four typhoons have made normal, which could hinder crop landfall in China this year — Mun, maturity. Wipha, Lekima and Bailu — less Country working with German experts and technologies on greenhouse gas also reduce emissions while improv­ In addition, it is estimated that than the number in the same peri­ reduction at three pilot farms in Chi­ ing production.” about three tropical cyclones will od at any time in recent history. to improve production, management na, said Yang Hongjie, division chief Lin Chunjian, CEO of Tianjin affect the southern coastal areas, Lekima, which landed in Zhe­ for animal industry development at Aoqun Animal Husbandry, a sheep which may affect agricultural and jiang last month, resulted in huge By WANG XIAODONG the Chinese ministry’s National Ani­ breeding company in Tianjin, has fishery production. economic losses in East China. in Hebi, Henan province mal Husbandry Services. been trying to breed animals with [email protected] The knowledge and After the project is completed, the higher growth rates and better dis­ results will be evaluated and the les­ ease resistance. Soon, once a new Increasingly strict environmental experiences to be sons learned may be spread to other facility is completed, breeding will standards in recent years have gained in Chinese livestock farms in China, he said. also focus on reducing the animals’ prompted Ding Dagan, deputy gen­ At Henan Yifa Animal Husband­ emissions of greenhouse gases, such eral manager of a pig breeding com­ farms through the ry, a pilot of the cooperation project, as methane and carbon dioxide. pany in Henan province, to improve cooperation can also recycling systems were built to turn The facility, being built with sub­ waste treatment at his farms, pig waste into methane, which is sidies from the Ministry of Agricul­ including upgrading the recycling be used in Germany then turned into electricity. ture and Rural Affairs, will include facilities that turn pig waste into and other countries to Previously, the company’s 60,000 labs to test the performance of dif­ farmland fertilizers and methane pigs could generate about 1.2 mil­ ferent breeds of sheep, including for fuel. help them reduce lion kilowatt­hours of electricity a their productivity, growth rate, feed His latest proposal, made during greenhouse gas year, meeting half its demand for consumption and gas emissions, to a visit to the company by a group of power, Ding said. help select the best traits. German experts late last month, emissions in The number of pigs has plummet­ In addition to reducing their envi­ was to fit all its pig houses with livestock raising.” ed this year due to African swine ronmental impact, promoting waste gas treatment facilities. fever, but Ding said production may sheep with less greenhouse gas Police help a fisherman fix his boat at a dock in Zhoushan, Zhe­ Hindri Kuipers, a senior hus­ “There are no mandatory regula­ be restored next year. emissions may also bring economic jiang province, on Wednesday. Lingling, the 13th typhoon this bandry adviser from Germany tions on the treatment of waste “We will also work with the Ger­ benefits as such breeds usually year, is expected to cause stormy weather on the East China Sea, gases emitted from pigs in China at man experts to build waste gas require less food to grow. where the city is located. ZOU XUNYONG / FOR CHINA DAILY present, but I think in five or 10 emissions in China in recent years. treatment facilities on our farm,” he Zhu, from CASS, said although years such regulations are very Home to one of the world’s largest said. sheep emit less greenhouse gases likely to come,” said Ding, from livestock industries — as the world’s “It may become a model, so other than other animals, such as cattle, Henan Yifa Animal Husbandry in top producer of pork and mutton pig farms in the area will also build there are an estimated 300 million Hebi. “We must make preparations and the third­largest producer of such facilities to reduce their envi­ sheep in China, among the most in Younger netizens most in advance.” beef — the country has also joined ronmental impact.” the world, and that means promot­ In addition to greenhouse gases the effort to reduce the contribution Zhu Zhiping, a professor at the ing low­emission sheep could make such as carbon dioxide and meth­ of livestock to global warming. Chinese Academy of Agricultural a significant contribution to reduc­ generous online donors ane, odorous gases such as hydro­ An ongoing cooperation program Sciences’ Institute of Environment ing the agricultural sector’s green­ gen sulfide produced in pig farms between China and Germany has and Sustainable Development in house gas emissions. By LI LEI Percentage of donations cause serious environmental pollu­ been searching for innovative solu­ Agriculture, estimated that live­ Hindri Kuipers, a senior hus­ [email protected] made online, by era tion and could be a source of com­ tions to gas emissions from live­ stock raising, especially raising bandry adviser from Germany Birth 1990s 1980s 1970s plaints from nearby residents, Ding stock, ranging from developing new ruminants such as cattle, sheep and involved in the cooperation pro­ Netizens in their 20s and 30s said. feeds and new waste treatment goats, produce about 400 million gram, said he had been impressed are leading an online donation Number of “As far as I know, no pig farms in technologies to promoting superior metric tons of greenhouse gases by the size of some livestock farms boom in China, according to the donations 48 35 9 China have been equipped with breeds that emit less gas. every year, accounting for about 5 in China, which could house tens of Ministry of Civil Affairs. Money waste gas treatment systems,” he The program, the result of a deal percent of all greenhouse gas emis­ thousands of animals. The ministry said in a news donated 26 45 21 said. between the Ministry of Agriculture sions in China. Considering the size of the live­ release recently that it has seen 1.8 CHINA DAILY “We do not have experience build­ and Rural Affairs and Germany’s Globally, the percentage is even stock industry in China, carrying out billion yuan ($252 million) donat­ ing such systems, and I hope we can Federal Ministry of Food and Agri­ higher, he said. emission reduction measures in the ed via designated charity websites in Hebei province last month, get assistance from the German culture, has been carried out since With increasing demand from the industry would contribute to global in the first half of 2019. Wang Aiwen, vice­minister of civil experts.” 2011, covering a wide range of areas, market for meat, implementing emission reduction efforts, he said. Some 1,400 charities posted affairs, said internet­powered Henrik Delfs, an agricultural including improving production, emission reduction measures is nec­ “In most parts of the world, there 17,000 fundraising announce­ donation platforms play a unique adviser for a Sino­German animal pig farm management and environ­ essary to help cut greenhouse gas is a lack of regulations on green­ ments on 20 such websites during role in nurturing the public’s phi­ breeding and husbandry coopera­ mental protection. emissions, he said. house gas emissions in the livestock the first six months and received lanthropist interests, serving as tion program, said waste gas treat­ In April, the two sides decided to “The livestock industry in China industry,” Kuipers said. more than 5 billion clicks, accord­ the crossroads for capital, infor­ ment systems — capable of extend the cooperation to reduce has been carrying out emission “The knowledge and experiences ing to the ministry. mation and public opinion. removing up to 80 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the reduction measures over the past to be gained in Chinese farms The number of online donations “They’re powerful and have waste gases produced — must be livestock industry. few years, including improved feed­ through the cooperation can also be is expected to hit new highs by the great potential for further growth,” installed in all new pig farms in Through the new project, which ing methods that increase feed con­ used in Germany and other coun­ end of the year, as the upcoming he said. Germany. will run until the end of the year, sci­ version efficiency and reduce tries to help them reduce green­ “99 Charity Day”, a popular annual Over the past few years, China The government has stepped up entists from China and Germany methane emissions,” he said. house gas emissions in livestock charity event that will be held on has ramped up scrutiny over char­ efforts to cut greenhouse gas will develop innovative methods “Promoting superior breeds can raising.” Monday — the ninth day of the ity scams and misconduct. ninth month — could bring in In 2016, China enacted the land­ massive cyber­based donations for mark Charity Law, which limited the second half of the year. fundraising qualification to a The event, launched by Tencent small number of charities with Social media app removed over alleged plagiarism Foundation in 2015, raked in 830 perfect credit records, while at the million yuan through on­screen same time making it compulsory By CAO YIN app to help it become better. saging and social media apps in the clicks last year, figures provided by to disclose how they plan to spend [email protected] The operator admitted the app country. the ministry show. That accounts the money. logo designers used public patterns Xie Kuangshi, a photographer, for more than 25 percent of last Under the law, online fundrais­ A social networking app designed and materials online as a reference was among the first crop of users to year’s online donations — 3.17 bil­ ing activities are allowed only on by Sina Weibo, Chinese largest Twit­ at first, such as those of a sun, desert download Oasis. He said he noticed lion yuan. websites designated by the Minis­ ter­like platform, has been removed and cactus, saying such elements the app, not only because he likes Behind the surging online dona­ try of Civil Affairs in a bid to con­ from the market on suspicion of pla­ coincided with the app’s design idea. trying new things but also because tions are the increasingly younger tain risks. giarism, just two days after it was “In today’s social network, every­ the app is a picture­dominated donors born and raised in the Last year, the National Develop­ put online. one is like a cactus in a desert, feel­ social platform. internet era. ment and Reform Commission, On Wednesday, the operator of Above: Design ing lonely and full of thorns. We “The app is more like Instagram According to Ant Financial, which is the top economic planner, the app, called Oasis, posted a state­ by Korean stu­ need an oasis,” the operator with clean and clear pages, and we which received 600 million yuan along with the central bank, the ment via its Weibo account, saying it dio fnt in 2015; explained in the statement, illustrat­ can follow and watch content such via the Alipay platform — or one­ Ministry of Civil Affairs and doz­ had taken the app off the shelves of Left: Logo of ing the app logo and the Korean as those on travel, food and sports in third of the country’s online dona­ ens of other departments, created Apple’s App Store temporarily after the app Oasis design. accordance with our hobbies,” he tions in the first half of this year — a credit system that subject non­ a netizen pointed out the app logo PROVIDED TO CHINA Seen from the illustration, the app said, adding some functions are also 45 percent of the money was given complying organizations to joint allegedly copied the pattern of the DAILY logo is highly similar to the one like Xiaohongshu, a social shopping by people born in the 1980s, fol­ punishments, including barring Ulju Mountain Film Festival, which designed by the Korean studio, and app in China. lowed by those born in the 1990s them from tax breaks and govern­ was designed by Korean studio fnt released in the statement. the logo is still applied to the app’s Oasis is not the first app to be (26 percent) and 1970s (21 percent). ment contracts. in 2015. “Oasis is in a test phase, so our accounts on Weibo and WeChat at mired in controversy this week. On In terms of the number of dona­ More than 5,200 organizations A review of the logo design has preparation for the app design isn’t present. Tuesday, the Ministry of Industry tions, those born in the 1990s have been blacklisted for various been launched, and the operator is sufficient, and the app’s functions The app’s previous post showed and Information Technology sum­ made 48 percent of the donations levels of breaches by the end of resolving the copyright­related and services are going to be that Oasis had ranked first in a free moned social networking firm via the Alipay platform, followed August, according to a report problem, according to the post. improved,” the operator said in the social app download list on the App Momo Inc, as its face­swapping app, by those born in the 1980s (35 per­ released by China Philanthropy Details about the review and statement, welcoming the public to Store on Tuesday, ahead of WeChat ZAO, was accused of excessively col­ cent) and 1970s (9 percent). Research Institute, affiliated to the when the app will return were not keep following and monitoring the and QQ, two popular instant mes­ lecting personal information. While speaking at a conference Beijing Normal University.