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News on Energy & Resources in China

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Raising the bar

Chinese investors help rebound in gold prices
May 7, 2021 (WiC 539)

Global investors have been selling their gold but consumers in China are buying more of it again. That was the story of the precious metal in the first quarter of this year, with demand from China offsetting some of the downward pressure on the ...

State-backed Minmetals now an antitrust target
Apr 30, 2021 (WiC 538)

Ten years after retiring as Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao made an unexpected return to the spotlight this month after penning a short series of articles for the Macau Herald, a little-known weekly. In one of the pieces, the 78 year-old paid ...

The energy of the future?

Longi and Sinopec team up in long-term pivot to hydrogen-based energy
Apr 23, 2021 (WiC 537)

The footage of the heads of Sinopec, Longi and two other energy companies sitting down for a debate might well have looked like a World Economic Forum moment. Instead, it was from a CCTV programme aired on April 17, during which the guests talked ...

Back with the wind in its sails

Sany plans STAR listing of new energy wind turbine unit
Apr 23, 2021 (WiC 537)

A decade ago, Liang Wengen was riding high at the top of the Forbes China rich list. The founder of Sany Heavy Industry became the country’s richest tycoon by providing the construction equipment that helped China to urbanise rapidly. Liang was ...

Fission expedition

Pakistan fires up Hualong nuclear plant
Apr 9, 2021 (WiC 535)

China’s push in nuclear power reached a new milestone in March when Pakistan was the first foreign country to connect a China-developed nuclear reactor to its electricity grid. The first nuclear plant in China to deploy the same technology went ...

Chinese wind power revives as investor favourite
Feb 11, 2021 (WiC 528)

China’s windpower sector had a surge in the final quarter of 2020, notching up more new additions in December (47 gigawatts) than in 2018 and 2019 combined, according to Wood Mackenzie, the global energy consultancy. A record 72GW of new ...

Solar stocks in surge on carbon-neutral plan
Jan 29, 2021 (WiC 526)

The electric vehicle (EV) sector is grabbing many of the headlines at the moment but there’s another industry that’s made a spectacular comeback over the past year. Solar stocks are sizzling – so much so that there are fears that some ...

Why have Chinese cities faced power outages?
Jan 8, 2021 (WiC 523)

Readers who are wondering how they will cope with the new Covid-19 lockdowns being imposed in a number of countries at the beginning of 2021 might spare a thought for the Indian sailors trapped aboard two merchant ships outside Chinese ports ...

UHV project launches early
Jan 8, 2021 (WiC 523)

Power shortages have hurt Hunan province this winter, but policymakers hope they will become a problem of the past after the National Development Reform Commission (NDRC) approved the construction of an ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission line ...

Contract killer

Sizzling Chinese iron ore futures irk regulators
Dec 11, 2020 (WiC 522)

Refer to Iron Man and many will think of the superhero played by Robert Downey Jr in the Marvel movies. But the Chinese press has been speculating that another ‘Iron Man’ is operating closer to home, hard at work manipulating iron ore futures ...

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