YINCHUAN -- Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, is aiming to make its entire city bus fleet go green in the next three years, local authorities said Saturday.Wang Tianshan, an official with Yinchuan's transport bureau, said that the city plans to put 2,000 electric buses on roads and set up 3,800 bus charging facilities by the end of 2020.Last year, Yinchuan purchased 600 electric buses, 230 of which are currently running. To ensure their smooth operation, the city has built 80 bus charging facilities, and more are in the pipeline.According to the city's bus operator, the electric buses can save operating costs and reduce exhaust emissions compared with natural gas-powered buses.For an average daily trip of 180 kilometers, an electric bus can save operating costs by 25,000 yuan ($4,000) and eliminate around seven tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually compared with the gas-powered bus.Currently, many Chinese cities are encouraging clean energy transport as part of the country's efforts to protect the environment.Shenzhen in southern China has put more than 16,000 purely electric buses on its roads so far.Taiyuan in North China's Shanxi province has made all of its cabs electric, and the city plans to add 1,000 electric buses in 2018. custom bar braceletcustom sports braceletscustom logo wristbandsde securite pour personne ageeembossed wristbandscolorfilled wristbandsembossed printed wristbandsdual layer wristbands
Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen speaks during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, China, Jan 5, 2019. [Photo/Agencies] Showing she has closed her mind to the island's reunification with the motherland in any form, Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen has called for her administration to counter Beijing's one country, two systems formula for reunification. Speaking at a security meeting she convened on Monday, she called on her officials to come up with measures to counter what she described as a serious challenge to the island's security and to prevent the mainland from interfering in the island's political, economic and social development, which she claimed was the biggest risk to the island. Once again touting the threat from the mainland, which is her default recourse, she elaborated on the different political systems on either side of the Straits, trying to present a prominent picture of political incompatibility. But while she may choose to turn a blind eye to the fact that until she took office cross-Straits relations had developed smoothly for under her predecessor despite the different political systems, most people on the island do not suffer from such willful amnesia. The majority of Taiwan compatriots know that the island's economic development and social progress have been facilitated by friendly cross-Straits relations. For instance, the large number of tourists from the mainland who visit the island has long been an important source of revenue for the island. But it appears that in Tsai's political calculations, the worse the relations across the Straits are, the easier it will be for her and her administration to fool people into believing her political platitudes about the island's independence. But one thing she has missed in her reckoning is the fact that she and her government will never be able to change the resolve of the mainland to not allow the island to become a separate country. She has also disregarded the fact that the island's independence is not the choice the majority of Taiwan people will make. The road map Tsai seems to have in her mind for the island's secession from the motherland leads to a dead end. For while there is a vast space for peaceful reunification, there is no room for any sort of Taiwan separatist activities. Nobody can change the fact that Taiwan is part of China. Despite the differences in political systems, there is enough leeway to develop good cross-Straits relations, which are in the interests of the people on both sides of the Straits. And with good relations established, a consensus will accumulate for the island's final reunification with the motherland as people on both sides of the Straits belong to the same family, and family differences can be resolved.
