US media staff on board reporting while Philippine vessel intrudes into waters of China's Xianbin Jiao

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US media staff on board reporting while Philippine vessel intrudes into waters of China's Xianbin Jiao

2024-08-20 16:28 Last Updated At：21:57

U.S. media staff were seen conducting reporting and filming work aboard Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel 4411 on Monday while the vessel was illegally intruding into the adjacent waters of the Xianbin Jiao (Xianbin Reef) of the Nansha Qundao (Nansha Islands) without the permission of the Chinese government, according to a footage released by Yuyuantantian, a social media account affiliated with the China Media Group, on Tuesday.

The American ABC News confirmed in a news report on Monday that there were U.S. media staff on board the vessel and they had taken videos. "Video and photographs, including the ones taken by journalists from a U.S. TV network who were on board one of the Philippine coast guard ships..." ABC News wrote in its report.

On Monday, in disregard of the Chinese side's repeated dissuasions and warnings, PCG vessels 4410 and 4411 illegally entered the waters near the Xianbin Jiao. PCG vessel 4410 deliberately collided with a China Coast Guard (CCG) ship that was carrying out a normal law enforcement operation, and then intruded into the waters off China's Ren'ai Jiao, CCG spokesman Gan Yu said on the day.

China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha Qundao, including the Xianbin Jiao, and the adjacent waters. The CCG will continue to carry out rights protection and law enforcement activities in waters under China's jurisdiction, and resolutely safeguard national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights, the spokesman said.

China makes low-carbon progress through improving energy consumption structure

2024-11-07 06:03 Last Updated At：08:27

China's energy consumption structure has made further progress in low-carbon development, according to Chinese Policy and Action for Climate Change Report 2024.

The latest report was released by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment at a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday.

In 2023, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption in the country's total energy consumption increased by 0.3 percentage points compared to the previous year, according to the report.

It added that the country saw its installed renewable energy capacity exceeded 1.5 billion kilowatts, accounting for over 50 percent of its total installed power generation capacity.

In the past decade, China has reduced its emissions of sulfur dioxide by 85 percent and nitrogen oxide by 60 percent. Also, the country's carbon intensity has achieved a decrease of over 34 percent, according to the report.