New energy sources NEW-ENERGY sources now make up more than 50% of the installed power-generation capacity in Northwest China, according to the Northwest Branch of State Grid. On Sunday, the Yichen photovoltaic power station in Shaanxi Province, with 250,000 kilowatts of photovoltaic modules, was connected to the grid, taking the installed new-energy capacity of China’s northwestern region to 210 million kilowatts. Portal for expat SHANGHAI’S government unveiled a new online portal for expatriate services yesterday, introducing the beta version of its English website (english.shanghai.gov.cn) alongside social media accounts on Facebook, X, and WeChat, to better serve the city’s large and growing international population. The portal aims to become a user-friendly, one-stop hub with multilingual information, resources, and services for foreigners traveling to Shanghai, settling in, or residing in the metropolis. Classes resumed OVER 60,000 students in the quake-hit Bonan-Dongxiang-Salar Autonomous County of Jishishan, Northwest China’s Gansu Province, have all resumed classes, said the provincial education department Saturday. As of Friday, a total of 1,165 prefabricated houses had been built for class resumption after the earthquake and a smooth transition for the spring semester, according to the department. | 