The salt fields are also being used for aquaculture – in this case, to breed shrimp. At full capacity, the solar + salt + shrimp farm is expected to save 500,000 tons of standard coal each year ...

China’s Xinjiang turns salt desert into fertile farmland in food security push. ... making it difficult to farm – amid mounting concerns over food supplies exacerbated by climate change, ...

The world’s biggest combined solar power station and salt farm has been plugged into the grid in China, with a capacity to meet the electricity needs of 1½ million households, according to its ...

Electricity generated from the world's largest solar plant built inside a salt farm, with a generating capacity of 1 million kilowatts, was connected to the grid on Saturday in North China's ...

URUMQI, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- In northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which is over a thousand miles away from the coast, a farm cultivating saltwater fish is redefining the local ...

Huadian New Energy Group has finished building a 1 GW solar farm on a salt field in Binhai New District, in the Chinese city of Tianjin, according to the State Council Information Office (SCIO ...

Within the harsh clamp of the Japanese blockade, Free China strove patiently and primitively to keep her economy breathing. A scene caught by the camera at a salt mine told part of the story (see ...