China's first desert highway across Taklimakan achieves zero carbon emissions

STORY: China's first desert highway across Taklimakan achieves zero carbon emissions DATELINE: June 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:16 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the highway 2. various of infrastructure along the highway 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CHEN YABING, Tarim Oilfield 4. various of the Taklimakan STORYLINE: The first highway across the Taklimakan, China's largest desert, has now achieved zero-carbon emissions. The highway runs 522 km in Xinjiang, connecting Lunnan in the north, with Minfeng county in the south. It was inaugurated in 1995. On Thursday, a "zero-carbon" project was launched on the highway, with solar panels employed to generate electricity to pump water for irrigating trees. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CHEN YABING, Tarim Oilfield For the carbon sink tree belts along both sides of the highway, we have used photovoltaic power to replace diesel power. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CHEN YABING, Tarim Oilfield "In this way, we can reduce the consumption of diesel fuel by