LANZHOU, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 57-year-old Long Ruijun, a professor at Lanzhou University in northwest China's Gansu Province, turned to online lectures to help old friends in Pakistan fight energy and food shortages. Long used to routinely visit the country from 2016 to 2019 to share agricultural techniques and skills with experts and farmers there. "The landscape and climate in Gansu are similar to that in Pakistan, especially in the northern region," he said. "So t...
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LANZHOU, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The global cryosphere shrank by around 87,000 square kilometers per year on average during the 1979-2016 period as a result of global warming, showed the latest study by Lanzhou University. The study highlights the importance of assessing the cryosphere as a whole, and provides a way to quantitatively estimate its overall changes, said Zhang Tingjun, a professor with the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Lanzhou University. It also pioneers the world in ...
Long Ruijun, a professor at Lanzhou University's School of Life Sciences, was a senior ecologist with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) from 2016 to 2019. While working in Pakistan, he shared techniques used in China's Gansu Province in the fields of biomass energy, solar energy and sustainable agriculture development practices. According to Long, these techniques can be widely applied to agricultural practices in Pakistan and other countries which have long b...
chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-07-13 13:15 The Institute of the Yellow River National Culture Park, jointly established by the publicity department of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and Lanzhou University, was officially inaugurated on July 12. The unveilingceremony of the Institute of the Yellow River National Culture Parkis held in Lanzhou University on July 12. [Photo by Gao Shiyao/for chinadaily.com.cn] The opening ceremony of the Institute of the Yellow River National Culture Park ...
By ZOU SHUO | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-06-28 09:18 Undergraduates from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology celebrate at their commencement on June 21. REN YONG/FOR CHINA DAILY Expanding access to learning, building world-class universities part of plan to become global education hub by midcentury Editor's note: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, China Daily is publishing a series of stories on the changes and developments in vario...
Source: Xinhua | 2021-06-21 16:30:11 | Editor: huaxia BEIJING, June 21 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese research team has recently revealed the emerging risks of declining oxygen levels in large cities around the world, raising concerns over people's health and the potential for sustainable development in major cities. A research team from Lanzhou University investigated oxygen balances and related risks in 391 cities worldwide with a population of more than 1 million. They studied the oxygen index, the ra...
Source: Xinhua | 2021-06-08 17:02:13 | Editor: huaxia LANZHOU, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have recently revealed why Caragana species, a genus of flowering plants, are widely distributed in deserts, semideserts and loesses with great drought tolerance. Researchers at the School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University have found that the leaves of Caragana species provide great efficiency and safety in hydraulic conductance, which allow them to grow and survive in arid and semiarid areas...
Two Rwandan students are studying dry-land farming technologies in northwest China's Gansu, aiming to help develop their country's agriculture after graduation. Produced by Xinhua Global Service https://xhnewsapi.xinhuaxmt.com/share/news?id=570020021669888showType=3008utdId=null...
Source: Xinhua | 2021-04-19 13:41:14 | Editor: huaxia by Xinhua writers Hu Tao, Zhang Wenjing LANZHOU, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists are using the latest technology to understand the lives of an ancient ancestor of human beings, based on a jawbone fossil found on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. By studying the fossil and sediments from the Baishiya Karst Cave in which the fossil was discovered, researchers have identified the jawbone as belonging to an extinct species of archaic human n...
Source: Xinhua|2021-03-11 23:39:07|Editor: huaxia LANZHOU, March 11 (Xinhua) -- A fluvial incision caused irreversible environmental degradation, such as desertification, of ancient cities in China. So says a recent study by researchers from northwest China's Lanzhou University. After surveying over 100 Chinese ancient Chinese cities, the research team took Sanchahe, an over 800-year-old city, on a terrace beside the Wuding River in northwest China's Mu Us Desert as the object of study. Based on...
