Stora tråden om Kina

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Erik Solheim, a former chief of the United Nations Environment Programme, said it is absurd that some Western media criticize China for not contributing its fair share to the global fight against climate change.

"I think it is completely crazy that Western media are running around looking for everything that can be criticized about China," said Solheim.

"The historical per capita carbon emissions of the United States are eight times that of China, and 25 times that of India. But Western media criticize China and India as if they were to blame for carbon emissions," said Solheim in an exclusive interview with China Daily, citing numbers released by United Kingdom-based website Carbon Brief.

He dismissed some media outlets' claims that China is not doing enough to fight climate change.

Solheim said he believed that China is now a world leader in green transition, such as in the application of renewable energy and electric cars.

"Last year, 82 percent of all solar panels were made in China, and 80 percent of the world's new hydropower capacity installed in 2021 was in China, and 98 percent of the world's electric buses are running on Chinese roads," said Solheim, who is also a former UN under-secretary-general.

"China is acting much more determinedly than any other country" in terms of pushing ahead with low-carbon development, he said.

"The complete focus of economic growth in the early days of Chinese modernization has been replaced by a focus on sustainable development," he added.

Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) co-founder, is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday during his visit to China, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

The meeting will mark Xi's first meeting with a foreign private entrepreneur in recent years. The people said the encounter may be a one-on-one meeting. A third source confirmed they would meet, without providing details.
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The last reported meeting between Xi and Gates was in 2015, when they met on the sidelines of the Boao forum in Hainan province. In early 2020, Xi wrote a letter to Gates thanking him, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for pledging assistance to China including $5 million for the country's fight against COVID-19.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday announced that it has renewed collaboration with the Beijing Municipal Government and Tsinghua University on innovative therapies for infectious diseases prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, pledging a donation of $50 million for the joint endeavor.

The announcement was made as Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, visits China for the first since 2019. In a speech on Thursday, Gates highlighted Chinese innovators' "important role" and China's "invaluable experience" in tackling issues such as health and poverty reduction.

"It's been a long time since I was in China - four years. The world looked very different then," Gates said in a speech delivered at the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI) in Beijing, pointing to rising challenges facing the world. "The need to meaningfully address these challenges has never been more urgent," Gates said, according to a transcript of his speech shared with the Global Times on Thursday.

The GHDDI was jointly founded by the Gates Foundation, Tsinghua University and the Beijing Municipal Government in 2016. It is an independent and not-for-profit research organization, the first of its kind in China, aiming to improve global health through the accelerated development of new drugs and innovative technologies to tackle diseases that disproportionately affect populations in the developing world.

To bolster the GHDDI's drug discovery capacity, the Gates Foundation will provide US$50 million to the institute, which will be matched by the Beijing Municipal Government, the foundation said in a press release sent to the Global Times on Thursday.

Tsinghua University will also continue to support the GHDDI in areas such as building and sharing research platforms, translating research discoveries and developing talent, the press release said.

"Chinese innovators have an important role to play in these global partnerships. China has invaluable experience to share from its own successes in health, agriculture, nutrition and poverty reduction," Gates said.

"I think Gates' visit to China makes clear his willingness to continue to cooperate with China," Hu Qimu, a deputy secretary-general of the digital real economies integration Forum 50, told the Global Times on Thursday, pointing to China's open arms for such cooperation as well as its rapid development.

In his speech on Thursday, Gates noted that China has made significant gains in reducing poverty and improving health outcomes. "I'm hopeful China can play an even bigger role in addressing the current challenges, particularly those facing African countries."