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NAIROBI， Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's diplomatic clout will re-energize the push for a total ban on ivory trade during the upcoming Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species (CITES)， Kenyan officials said on Monday.


Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources Judi Wakhungu said Kenya is counting on China to back its push for a total ban on ivory trade at the CITES meeting to be held in Johannesburg from Sept. 24 to Oct. 5.


Kenya has developed fourteen proposals that call for concerted efforts to protect rare flora and fauna from extinction linked to human actions and climate shocks.


According to Wakhungu， Kenya will lobby the international community to lift the status of African elephant from Appendix two to one， given the grave threats facing the giant mammals.


"A coalition of 28 African elephant range states has supported our proposal calling for renowned attention to the dire plight of these mammals linked to poaching，" said Wakhungu.


"The presidents of China and the United States last year made a commitment to promote wildlife protection in Africa. We are hopeful this gesture will inject fresh impetus in the push for total ban on ivory trade in both domestic and overseas markets，" Wakhungu said.


She added that the torching of 105 tonnes of elephant tusks and 1.03 tonnes of rhino horns by President Uhuru Kenyatta on April 30th this year reaffirmed Kenya's uncompromising stand against illegal trade in wildlife products.


Margaret Mwakima， principal secretary in the state department of natural resources， said poaching in Kenya has declined by 90 percent in the last two years thanks to support from bilateral allies such as China.


CHINA has set a deadline of 2019 to impose tough new sales targets for electric plug-in and hybrid vehicles Fernando Torres Madrid Jersey , slightly relaxing an earlier plan to launch the rules from next year that had left global automakers worried about being able to comply.


Carmakers will need new-energy vehicles to hit a threshold equivalent to 10 percent of annual sales by 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement yesterday. That level would rise to 12 percent for 2020.


The targets remove an explicit 8 percent quota for 2018, but otherwise match previously announced plans.


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However Koke Madrid Madrid Jersey , global automotive manufacturers wrote to Chinese authorities in June, urging a softening of the proposals for all-electric battery vehicles and electric plug-in hybrids.


Under the rules, carmakers will receive credits for NEVs that can be transferred or traded. These credits will be used to calculate if firms have met the quotas.


German automaker Volkswagen Authentic Alessio Cerci Jersey , the market leader, acknowledged meeting the target so soon would not be easy. VW sold just a few hundred green cars among the 4 million vehicles it sold in China in 2016, but it plans to sell about 400 Authentic Fernando Torres Jersey ,000 NEVs in the country by 2020 and 1.5 million by 2025.


Japan’s Honda Motor Co said it planned to launch an electric battery car in China next year and would “try to expand our line-up of new-energy vehicles” to meet the quotas.


China wants electric and plug-in hybrid cars to make up at least a fifth of the country’s auto sales by