Due to a greater pressure from safety production and environmental protection, rising costs, tepid domestic and foreign demands, and prohibition of and restrictions on highly toxic pesticides, the industry has been running with lower product prices. Overall, the pesticide enterprises now make meager profits or barely break even.
Category: Nanjing, China
China’s first vertical forest is rising in Nanjing
Stefano Boeri Architetti is bringing the vertical forest concept popularized in Milan to Nanjing, China with the Nanjing Towers . The two green towers could provide the city with a breath of fresh air, producing around 132 pounds of oxygen every day as they absorb carbon dioxide.
China boycotts Japan hotel chain over massacre denials
DECEMBER 12: General view of the monument commemorating victims who died in the Nanjing Massacre of1937; during rehearsals for a ceremony due to take place to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, at the ‘Memorial Hall for Compatriot Victims of the Japanese Military’s Nanking Massacre’ on December 12, 2007 in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. Japanese troops occupied the former captial city of Nanjing on December 13, 1937 and launched a six-week long massacre of over 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians.
Recombinant type-5 vector-based ebola vaccine safe
For healthy adults from Sierra Leon, the recombinant type-5 vector-based Ebola vaccine is safe and immunogenic, according to a study published online Dec. 21 in The Lancet . Feng-Cai Zhu, from the Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Nanjing, China, and colleagues recruited healthy HIV-negative adults aged 18 to 50 years, with no history of Ebola virus infection and no previous immunization with other Ebola candidate vaccines.