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Buddhists around the world have been called upon to develop and coordinate ecological protection services, at a World Buddhist Forum held recently in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi.
In a declaration at the closing ceremony, the forum called upon Buddhists worldwide to develop and coordinate international Buddhist charitable services including disaster relief, poverty alleviation and ecological protection.
They were also encouraged to strengthen the merging Buddhism with modern technological civilization, making use of new developments in technology, to advance the Buddhist spirit of alms giving and compassion.
More than 1,000 Buddhist masters, practitioners and scholars converged at the Fourth World Buddhist Forum in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
Among the venerable masters at the forum were the 11th Panchen Lama and Abbot Hsing Yun, one of Taiwan's most influential monks.
Some Buddhist representatives have called for a bigger role for Buddhists in ecological protection, especially in the ban on the ivory trade, as some Buddha statues and prayer beads are made from ivory products.

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China is planning to launch a global carbon dioxide observatory satellite into space next year. Recently, all satellite payloads have finished the samples development.
The observatory satellite aims to establish ground-based data processing and verification systems, improve monitoring precision, and become feasible to monitoring carbon dioxide around the globe.
The satellite development program has five systems, namely satellite system, carrier rocket system, launching site system, measurement and control system, as well as the ground-based application system.
Within this year, the internal testing of ground-based systems, data receiving and processing of ground-based accepting stations, data verification and new data application will be carried out.