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New Mongolia-China cooperation might bloom in green development
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A team of 46 Mongolian media reporters visited China, to get acquainted with the green development and ecological preservation works of the People’s Republic of China between May 31 and June 6. The press and interview tour stopped by Beijing, Tianjing and Inner Mongolian cities, Ordos, Baotou (Bugat) and Hohhot.
The visit is the second shift of the journalists exchange, which was agreed on during the visit of Mr Xi Jinping, the President of People’s Republic of China, to Mongolia in August 2014. The Chinese president pledged to receive 250 Mongolian journalists in the course of five years, in order to improve understanding between the two nations through the media and press.
This year’s topic was “Let’s focus on green development!”. In the margin of this, team of reporters, cameramen, translators, authors and photographers of Mongolian media organizations visited key institutions of China that concern the green development, including Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as newly created eco-parks.
Beijing and Tianjin are the centers of China’s environmental management, administering enormous control centers and environmental pollution reporting stations.
Waste water management and the largest solar energy plant were the objects of Mongolian reporters’ interest.
In Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, forestations have been made in the areas of high concern, at the cost of 47.8 billion CNY (7.3 billion USD), where 410 hectares of area was covered with trees. As a result, desert field was reduced in size by more than 70 thousand hectares, since 2011, the start of 12th five year plan of the People’s Republic of China.
Thanks to the “10 thousand entities” initiative, in accord with the 12th five year plan, China saved energy in the amount that can equal to 16.25 million tons of coal energy.
New potential areas of cooperation between Mongolia and China might emerge in green development, energy saving, waste management and renewable energy, as well as liquid gas fuel trades and coal gasification, according to the authorities of Xinxing Group in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.
Visit progresses and interviews of Mongolian reporters were broadcasted by CCTV, Nei Mongol TV, China Daily, China Report, Xinhua and other news websites in China.
