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Phase one of the 15th UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-15) took place in Kunming, Yunnan Province, from Oct 11 to 15. The conference has set the stage for adopting an effective global biodiversity framework after 2020, with discussions set to resume…

The Capital Charity Awards and Beijing Charity Cultural Creation Conference were recently held at the Beijing Zhengda Center. The events were hosted by the Capital Charity Foundation under the guidance of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee’s Social Work Committee and…

Heavy rain has caused severe flooding in some regions of Shanxi Province. From Oct 2 to 7, precipitation in the region was between 15.4 and 285.2 millimeters and 18 townships were hit by 200 millimeters of rainfall. By Oct 10,…

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A new initiative to offer disabled people employment was launched in Nanjing on Sept 28. The “Dream-Building Restaurant” (Zhu Meng Can Ting) program was created by the Disabled Persons’ Federation of the city’s Jiangning District and the food delivery platform…

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Children from a community in Fenggang County, Guizhou Province, celebrated this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival together at a local children’s home. But it was not a normal celebration with families coming together to enjoy the festivities: the children’s parents were not…

The Global Child Law Fellowship 2021-22, co-sponsored by Beijing Children’s Legal Aid Research Center and the Child Law International Alliance (CLIA), was launched in September in Burundi, Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, India and the Philippines. Twelve lawyers from the…

On World Car-Free Day earlier this year, Greenpeace released a report titled “Zero Carbon Countdown: Comparison of major automakers’ carbon emission levels and compliance in China, the EU and the USA”. The report gathered the most recent statistics on the…

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A foodbank has opened its own store on Chinese e-commerce website Taobao. The shop, which went online on Sept 16, aims to provide food close to its sell-by date to those who can’t afford to meet their daily calorie needs.…

The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer formally came into force in China on Sept 15. China joined the Montreal Protocol in 1991 to phase out the production and usage of ozone-depleting chemicals.…

In the early hours of September 16, a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Luxian County, Sichuan Province, killing three people and leaving 100 injured. By 4 p.m., it was reported that 1,400 houses had collapsed and 6,400 were severely damaged, affecting more…

During the recent floods in Henan Province, a new phenomenon quickly emerged in the disaster relief efforts: charitable foundations providing support to rescue teams. And it’s thought that this model might now become more common during future disasters. On Aug…

“This desolate area where green wheatgrass seeds were sown just three months ago is now alive with color. You can hardly imagine my pride, wrote Chen Juanling, general manager of public relations and communications for Garan Group, on WeChat. Last…

In the past couple of years, the government has increasingly put forward new documents and favourable policies to encourage the development of the social work sector, with an emphasis on creating space for social workers to become more engaged in…

The National Press and Publication Administration has announced new rules limiting the amount of time children can play games online. The notice, issued on Aug 30, quickly became the subject of intense public debate. Tech giants including Tencent and NetEase…