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Shot in the arm

“The new Covid-19 production base can produce about 250 million doses of vaccine annually”
Apr 30, 2021 (WiC 538)

Yu Xuefeng, founder and CEO of CanSino Biologics, talks to the China Daily as the first doses of its vaccine rolled off the production line last weekend at his new factory in Tianjin. Yu says his is the only adenovirus vector Covid vaccine so far ...

Red carpet crackdown

Zhao wins Best Director at the Oscars, but there’s no celebration in China
Apr 30, 2021 (WiC 538)

The 93rd Academy Awards, held last Sunday, were significant for several reasons. This year’s nominations were mainly for films that had been watched via the internet. And in another new departure, nine of the 20 acting nominations went to ...

Dilraba Dilmurat

Dilraba Dilmurat
Apr 23, 2021 (WiC 537)

Who is she? Dilraba Dilmurat, also known as Dilireba, is an actress, singer and model of Uighur ethnicity. Now 28, she got her start when she was 21 in the lead role in television drama Anarhan. She’d earlier ...

Taking on Tesla

“We have a saying in China. To defeat someone, you need to do something different.”
Apr 23, 2021 (WiC 537)

XPENG founder He Xiaopeng tells the Wall Street Journal he wants to overtake Tesla using innovation. XPENG unveiled its third production vehicle, the P5 sedan, in Guangzhou on Wednesday. It says the new P5 is the first Chinese EV that comes with ...

Suspicious calls

New anti-fraud app gets 100 million downloads
Apr 23, 2021 (WiC 537)

Phone scams are big business in China: in the first three months of this year citizens were said to have lost nearly Rmb19 billion ($2.92 billion) to grifters, according to the government. As part of a campaign to counter the fraudsters, the ...

Best foot forward

Local sneaker brands cash in on patriotic surge
Apr 16, 2021 (WiC 536)

Speculative trading of second-hand sneakers is nothing new in China. The resale market is so extensive that it has turned Dewu, a shoe trading platform, into a tech unicorn (see WiC451; the company was previously called Poizon). But shoe scalpers ...

Seven-year itch

“We had seven years of negotiation for the deal. Now it looks like it will take another seven years”
Apr 16, 2021 (WiC 536)

Joerg Wuttke, head of the European Chamber of Commerce in China, points out that the provisional China-EU trade and investment deal was not mentioned on a call between President Xi Jinping and German leader Angela Merkel. The Financial Times ...

“The risk is that China uses its position in the supply chain to put pressure on other economies, and that…
Apr 9, 2021 (WiC 535)

Chris Williams, managing director of UK Seabed Resources, on why his firm has plans to deep-sea mine for rare earths in the Pacific. He told The Times there was concern about “vulnerability” in the supply chain with 95% of rare earths ...

Mask excavation triggers extra-terrestial talk
Apr 9, 2021 (WiC 535)

Little is known about the Shu civilisation that predominated in the area around Chengdu some 3,000 years ago. They left no written records and very few buildings to study. But what has been discovered is a few of their treasure pits, filled ...

“I’d like to strike an optimistic note and I’m very confident that the future of China is going to be…
Apr 1, 2021 (WiC 534)

Elon Musk in an interview with state-run broadcaster China Central Television last Tuesday. “China in the long term will be our biggest market, both where we make the most number of vehicles and where we have the most number of customers,” ...

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