Official statistics show that as of the end of 2024, China cultivated apples on more than 1.93 million hectares, producing ...

China has the highest afforestation rate in the world, resulting in a 9 per cent increase in forest cover over the past 30 years. This is not for reasons of altruism. Since 2000, China has emerged as ...

In parts of China's Loess Plateau, the landscape appears to be nothing more than rolling hills and quiet farmland. Yet ...

A bullet train departed Yan’an on Friday, linking the sacred revolutionary heartland to the country’s high-speed rail network ...

Spectacular scenery of terraced fields on the loess plateau in Pengyang, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, May 5, 2024. Photo: China News Service Spectacular scenery of terraced fields ...

XIAN, China, Sept. 1 (UPI) --New research suggests China's Loess Plateau, the largest dust deposit in the world, was formed by the winds blowing across the Mu Us Desert -- like a leaf blower piles ...

The ancient highland area in north-central China has been dubbed the “cradle of Chinese civilization”. The moniker owes to it being the source of the Yellow River, the country’s second longest natural ...

Land subsidence in the loess-covered mountainous area is a complex process that contemporary models could not accurately simulate. We assumed that flat-ground mining subsidence was the result of joint ...

Central China's Loess Plateau was mostly covered by grass for the past 20,000 years - not forest as popularly believed - mainland scientists say, warning that an ambitious government tree-planting ...