{"id":145240,"date":"2026-01-30T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145240"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:00:11","slug":"it-is-flourishing-chinas-man-made-forest-in-gobi-produces-good-rubber-for-military-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145240","title":{"rendered":"It is \u2018flourishing\u2019: China\u2019s man-made forest in Gobi produces good rubber for military use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists are planting high-value alternative \u201crubber trees\u201d in the Gobi Desert.<br \/>\nChina is the world\u2019s largest consumer and importer of natural rubber, mainly to support its massive car sector. Consumption last year is expected to have exceeded 7 million tonnes, over 85 per cent of it imported.<br \/>\nHowever, the unique Chinese medicinal plant Duzhong (scientific name Eucommia ulmoides) may help to resolve this dependency.<br \/>\nWhile its bark is a valued material in traditional Chinese medicine&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3341641\/it-flourishing-chinas-man-made-forest-gobi-produces-good-rubber-military-use?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese scientists are planting high-value alternative \u201crubber trees\u201d in the Gobi Desert. China is the world\u2019s largest consumer and importer of natural rubber, mainly&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}