Progress in China's geological exploration in the first half year of 2018

In the first half year of 2018,there were changes in China's economic,industrial structure and the changes in government's policy on land and mineral resources.China's geological exploration is continued to maintain a trend of the growth.The fund investment in geological exploration declined and the impetus for investment in initial exploration was insufficient.The mining market showed a good development trend and the social investment depicted a slight rise.In the first half of the year,the investments in hydrogeologic exploration,environmental geology exploration and geological disaster investigation increased on the year-onyear basis.

Status Quo in the First Half Year of 2010

The first half year of 2010 has already been one part of the history. Usually, for textile industry, we would like to give some summary words about the economic operation for the first six months: the whole textile industry saw a stable development; however, confronting with the complicated external and internal economic environment, several unstable elements would still challenge the comprehensively stable industrial development.

Characteristics of Temperature Change in China over the Last 2000 years and Spatial Patterns of Dryness/Wetness during Cold and Warm Periods

This paper presents new high-resolution proxies and paleoclimatic reconstructions for studying climate changes in China for the past 2000 years. Multi-proxy synthesized reconstructions show that temperature variation in China has exhibited significant 50–70-yr, 100–120-yr, and 200–250-yr cycles. Results also show that the amplitudes of decadal and centennial temperature variation were 1.3℃ and 0.7℃, respectively, with the latter significantly correlated with long-term changes in solar radiation, especially cold periods, which correspond approximately to sunspot minima. The most rapid warming in China occurred over AD 1870–2000, at a rate of 0.56°± 0.42℃（100 yr）^（-1）; however, temperatures recorded in the 20 th century may not be unprecedented for the last 2000 years, as data show records for the periods AD 981–1100 and AD1201–70 are comparable to the present. The ensemble means of dryness/wetness spatial patterns in eastern China across all centennial warm periods illustrate a tripole pattern： dry south of 25°N, wet from 25°–30°N, and dry to the north of 30°N. However, for all centennial cold periods, this spatial pattern also exhibits a meridional distribution. The increase in precipitation over the monsoonal regions of China associated with the 20 th century warming can primarily be attributed to a mega El Nino–Southern Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. In addition, a significant association between increasing numbers of locusts and dry/cold conditions is found in eastern China. Plague intensity also generally increases in concert with wetness in northern China, while more precipitation is likely to have a negative effect in southern China.

Assessment on Temperature Changes of China During the Past 2000 Years

The Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC(IPCC AR4)concluded that average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than that of any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and likely the highest in at least the past 1300 years.However,after evaluating Global or Northern Hemisphere temperature change series derived from ice cores,tree rings,

Reconstruction of Sub-Decadal Winter Half-Year Temperature during 1651-2010 for the North China Plain Using Records of Frost Date

We extracted 374 pieces of records of frost date from historical documents. Using these records, we reconstructed winter half-year (October to next April) temperature series, with a resolution of 5-year, for the North China Plain during 1651-2010. The results show that the temperature changes in the North China Plain were divided into four phases. With the reference period of 1951-1980, two cold phases, 1651-1700 and 1781-1900, have cold anomaly of 0.83°C and 0.60°C respectively. However, between the two cold phases, 1701-1780 was a relative warm phase with the cold anomaly of 0.36°C referring to the mean of 1951-1980. After the 1900, the climate came into a warm phase. The mean temperature of 1901-2010 was 0.11°C higher than the mean of 1951-1980. During 1651-2010, the 1996-2000 is the warmest 5-year with the warm anomaly of 1.25°C than that of the reference period of 1951-1980.

Two and a Half Thousand Years of Navigation on the Dead Sea

Today there is a single ship on the Dead Sea:a vessel that makes monthly research cruises.But in earlier periods many kinds of boats sailed the waves of the saltiest of all lakes.Stone and wooden anchors found on the newly

Tapping Renewable Energy Resources -with A Combined Capacity of 1236 MW as Target for the Year 2000

China began the research and development of renewable energy generation since 1970s, in particular in the Eighth Five-year Plan period, the State made closer attention to the research and development of renewable energy, therefore the technical level, application scale and economic, social benefits have seen greater progress. The combined capacity of renewable energy generation reached 100 MW at the end of 1994. And it is planned a combined capacity of 1236 MW will be targeted for the year 2000.

Technical Textiles: 30% Growth in the First Half Year

Cinte Techtextil China 2010 will return to Shanghai from October 19th–21st, presenting opportunities for China’s ever-growing nonwovens and technical textiles industries. What’s about the status quo of the technical textile industry in China in the first half year of

New Stage of the Northwest China 330 kV Power System Development - A Brief Introduction of System Planning in Northwest China to the Year 2000

The system planning of the Northwest China 330 kV Power System from present to the year 2000 is introduced in this paper. Some technical problems arising from the system planning, such as network configuration, system stability and reactive power compensation etc. are also briefly summarized.

Vegetation dynamics and climate variability over the past 2000 years inferred from Son Kul marsh in the western Tianshan Mountains

A pollen study was conducted on an alpine marsh sediment in the Son Kul Basin and was allowed to reconstruct changes in vegetation dynamics and climatic information in the western Tianshan Mountains during the past 2000 years.Pollen diagram reveals that regional vegetation is dominated by alpine meadow in the past 2000 years,being similar with modern vegetation components in the basin.The Artemisia/Chenopodiaceae-indicated moisture exhibits a warm-dry Roman Warm Period(RWP,~0-~500 AD),a cold-dry Dark Ages Cold Period(DACP,~500-~800 AD),a warm-wet Medieval Warm Period(MWP,~800-~1350 AD),a cold-dry Little Ice Age(LIA,~1350-~1850 AD)and a warm-dry Current Warm Period(CWP,since~1850 AD).Our pollen-based moisture reconstructions are supported by other nearby moisture records.Combined with other pollen data in the western Tianshan Mountains,we found that the vegetation was relatively stable before~1650-~1750 AD and the anthropogenic activities obviously intensified afterwards(especially at the middle-elevation sites).Further work involving more and higher-resolution palaeovegetation records would contribute to fully understand the information on the complex links between environmental,climatic and anthropogenic changes in the western Tianshan Mountains.