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Industry, transport, construction, and daily life are key areas that generate carbon emissions and have a significant impact on achieving peak carbon and carbon neutrality. China has incorporated peak carbon and carbon neutrality into overall social and economic development and moved faster to establish green and low-carbon work models and lifestyles, in order to inject impetus into high-quality green development.

Earth is the only home of all humanity, and tackling climate change and promoting sustainable development are vital to our survival and future. Since the Industrial Revolution, great material wealth has come at the cost of faster depletion of natural resources and disruption to the ecological balance, intensifying the tensions between humanity and nature. In recent years, the harmful effects of climate change have grown more prominent, making a coordinated global response ever more urgent.

Businesses not built on real demands will ultimately decline. The current development of the environmental protection industry is verifying this fundamental law.

Effective November 9, the U.S. has imposed a 100% additional tariff (i.e., doubling the original tariff rate) on certain China-manufactured port equipment, including ship-to-shore cranes, container chassis, and their components. The move aims to weaken China’s competitiveness in the maritime logistics equipment sector and directly impacts Chinese export enterprises as well as the global port equipment supply chain.

Veolia, a French transnational group focusing on the environment and resource management, is poised to leverage China's AI boom to scale up investment in innovative projects, its chief executive said, highlighting the country's rising global position as one of the most dynamic centers for green innovation.

On October 1st, 2025, the "Announcement of the State Taxation Administration on Matters Concerning the Optimization of the Advance Payment Declaration of Enterprise Income Tax" (Announcement No. 17 of 2025) came into effect.

Zhang Wenyong, the founder of Sinone Co, a major green recycling company in Tianjin, recalls vividly the dangers and pollution the waste industry generated 60 years ago.

Through the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, ASEAN products — from Vietnamese and Indonesian rubber, to Cambodian rice and Thai coconuts — are steadily making their way into China.

Starting September, cross-border e-commerce export enterprises that fail to complete tax refund declaration and foreign exchange collection between the next month and April 30 of the following year shall pay supplementary value-added tax (VAT). The General Administration of Customs (GAC) has canceled overseas warehouse registration, simplified document declaration, and imposed requirements for data authenticity.

At a battery recycling facility in Hedong district of Linyi, Shandong province, the used batteries from new energy vehicles are processed into lithium, copper and aluminum powder in just over 10 minutes. This project, initiated at the end of last year, aims to transform old batteries into valuable resources.