Urban encroachment has been halted, bringing new vitality to a natural habitat in Hong Kong's New Territories, as Honey Tsang reports. The valley is home to many Yellow-breasted buntings. [Roy Liu/China Daily] Concerns about landslides and flash floods have prompted ongoing efforts to tame Hong Kong's wild rivers and streams that have resulted in many riverbeds and their banks being encased in concrete that rises far above flood levels. While the result has been a sharp reduction in the city's wetland and natural habitats, the restoration of Long Valley in the New Territories represents a new approach to saving the city's wetlands. The Beas River, the lifeline of Long Valley, winds through the fertile land of the northern New Territories. The creep of urban sprawl, the demand for housing, the building of high-rises and the preservation of agricultural land have gradually eroded Long Valley's freshwater wetland. custom wristbands ukdebossed wristbandfidget spinner braceletslap wristbandswide rubber bands
JIUQUAN - China launched Venezuela's remote sensing satellite, VRSS-2, into a preset orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi desert at 12:13 on Monday. The VRSS-2 was the third satellite jointly launched by China and Venezuela, and also the later's second remote sensing satellite. It will be primarily used by Venezuela for land resources inspection, environmental protection, disaster monitoring and management, crop yield estimation and city planning. The satellite was launched by a Chinese Long March-2D carrier rocket which was designed by Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology. This was the 252nd flight mission for the Long March rocket family. In 2008, China launched Venezuela's first satellite -- the Venesat-1, or "Simon Bolivar" -- which carried communications facilities. In 2012, Venezuela's first remote sensing satellite, the VRSS-1, was launched into space from China.
