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News on Energy & Resources in China

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Elemental forces

Huge Chinese demand drives up lithium prices
Jan 14, 2022 (WiC 569)

Go to a Chinese restaurant offering fresh seafood and you may well find that there aren’t any prices on display. That’s because the restaurateur plans to gauge how much you’re willing, or able to pay: the local price or the tourist ...

Welcome to Magnetic Valley

Beijing orchestrates a mega-merger as it seeks control over rare earths
Jan 7, 2022 (WiC 568)

For the past half century, the part of the world most associated with technological progress has been Silicon Valley. If you fancy living there, a house in Atherton Valley, just outside San Francisco, costs an average of $7.5 million. It is ...

The greenest gas?

Why Sinopec is betting big on a hydrogen future
Dec 10, 2021 (WiC 567)

If you believe that the universe was formed as the result of a Big Bang, then hydrogen was the first element that was created. Physicists think that hydrogen constitutes 75% of the universe’s matter. And if things go to plan, hydrogen might ...

Full metal racket

Aluminium firm Zhongwang struggles for survival
Nov 5, 2021 (WiC 562)

Once a symbol of American industrial might, Alcoa was split in two in 2016. The revamp came amid falling aluminium prices and as a result of intensifying competition from Chinese producers. At nearly the same time, China’s biggest ...

Charging into Argentina

Chinese firms rush to dominate global lithium supply chain
Oct 22, 2021 (WiC 560)

What would Argentina’s legendary nineteenth century cowboy Gauchito Gill have made of the corporate stampede to stake a claim to the nation’s deposits of lithium, the silvery-white metal found under the country’s northwestern salt flats? ...

Wind in its sails

Cleantech giant Envision now powers 200 GW of renewables around the world
Oct 15, 2021 (WiC 559)

Covid-19 has made international travel much more complicated. Crossing borders is still a struggle. There are a jumble of pandemic-based rules and restrictions – many of which seem to change on a regular basis. But Zhang Lei, the founder of ...

China tests innovations in nuclear power generation
Oct 15, 2021 (WiC 559)

In 1970, China’s then prime minister Zhou Enlai kicked off the country’s civilian nuclear energy programme by announcing that, “nuclear power shouldn’t only be used for weapons. It should also serve China’s economic ...

A death at Shanghai Electric signals huge scandal
Aug 20, 2021 (WiC 552)

In Chinese folklore the celestial ‘being’ responsible for administering justice to the immoral and corrupt is Leishen, the god of thunder. However, the story goes that Leishen wasn’t much good at his job in the early days, often ...

The future of fission

Could molten salt reactors soon be added to China’s nuclear network?
Jul 30, 2021 (WiC 551)

In recent years Sino-US superpower rivalry has centred on sectors like chipmaking. China wants to achieve self-sufficiency in semiconductor manufacturing. The US aims to prevent China getting the advanced technology needed to do so. But now the ...

A powerful statement

New mega dam project is second to Three Gorges in energy generation
Jul 16, 2021 (WiC 549)

With turbines that are the hardest, the deepest and the world’s most powerful, China’s new Baihetan Dam on the Yunnan-Sichuan border does a fine line in generating superlatives, as well as electricity. Entering into initial service at the ...

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