

(230724) -- TAIYUAN, July 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 27, 2023 shows machinery in operation at a coalbed methane mining base in Qinshui County, north China's Shanxi Province. TO GO WITH "China's coal-rich province achieves record unconventional natural gas output in H1" (Xinhua/Wang Feihang)
Taiyuan – A província chinesa de Shanxi, rica em carvão, extraiu 1,99 bilhão de metros cúbicos de metano nos dois primeiros meses de 2024, um aumento anual de 13,6%, representando cerca de 79% do total do país, conforme o departamento provincial de estatísticas.
A utilização de metano de jazidas de carvão, um subproduto do carvão, pode reduzir os riscos na mineração, cortar as emissões de gases de efeito estufa e aliviar a escassez de gases.
Shanxi é uma das várias regiões chinesas com abundantes recursos de metano de carvão. A província abriga cerca de um terço das reservas estimadas de metano de jazidas de carvão da China.
Até o final de 2022, as reservas comprovadas desse recurso na província ultrapassaram 760 bilhões de metros cúbicos.
(260709) -- SHANGHAI, July 9, 2026 (Xinhua) -- A staff member works at a testing workshop of a chips testing service platform at the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech 895 Incubator in Pudong New Area, east China's Shanghai, on July 8, 2026. Located in Shanghai's Pudong New Area, the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech 895 Incubator, a specialized entrepreneurship service platform, has incubated more than 1,600 innovative enterprises since its establishment in 2015. Equipped with advanced testing facilities, including a 4,000-square-meter clean test workshop, the incubator provides one-stop public testing services and shared office space for startups. Its testing platform supports the development of high-performance computing chips, large-scale System-on-a-Chip (SoC), memory chips, sensor chips and mixed-signal chips, helping technology startups reduce costs and accelerate innovation. (Xinhua/Chen Shuo)