China's investment in key energy projects reached 1.97 trillion yuan (around 277 billion U.S. dollars) in the first eight months of 2025, marking a year-on-year increase of 18.2 percent, according to the data released by the National Energy Administration on Friday.
As of the end of August, the investment of six provincial-level regions, namely Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Xinjiang, Yunnan and Inner Mongolia, had each exceeded 100 billion yuan.
During the eight months, the investment in wind power projects increased by over 40 percent year on year, while the investment in key solar power projects rose by 17.5 percent.
Meanwhile, the investment registered a year-on-year growth of over 100 percent in key new power storage projects in Xinjiang, Guangdong, Yunnan, Shandong and Inner Mongolia.
China's investment in key energy projects up 18.2 pct in Jan-Aug period
The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.
The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.
Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.
"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.
Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.
Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.
"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.
Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight
