News on Energy & Resources in China

Profits set to flow
What is driving GDI’s HK$100 billion market valuation?
Sep 13, 2019 (WiC 466)

Bank of East Asia’s chairman David Li isn’t viewed as an active investor in stocks. Yet the veteran banker has been taking a keen interest in Guangdong Investment (GDI), a state-owned enterprise described by some analysts as one of the best ...

Power struggle
China’s largest nuclear firm gets a spot on Washington’s blacklist and IPOs
Aug 30, 2019 (WiC 464)

It’s the mid-2020s and a re-elected President Trump fires a nuclear missile at an island that the Chinese have built in a disputed part of the South China Sea. That fictional scenario is what a futuristic BBC TV series called Years and ...

Oil cash floes
Chinese SOE wins major Russian Arctic contract
Jul 12, 2019 (WiC 459)

In January of last year the Chinese government issued its first white paper on the Arctic. It announced that China was now a “near-Arctic State” and that as a major power and stakeholder in the region, the Chinese would play a greater role ...

Loss of power
Huadian Energy faces potential delisting
May 24, 2019 (WiC 453)

In 2014 there were two events that triggered a rethink on risk appetites in the Chinese financial markets. The authorities broke with the so-called ‘Beijing put’ by allowing bond issuers to default for the first time. And a lossmaking ...

Not so bright
China’s only private sector oil baron goes under
May 3, 2019 (WiC 450)

For WiC readers of a certain vintage, there really are only two oilmen worthy of note: JR Ewing and Cliff Barnes. The two Texans spent much of the final quarter of the twentieth century slugging it out on primetime TV. Cliff Barnes was the ...

Reforms in the pipeline
Telecoms model set to be replicated in a bid to reshape oil sector
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447)

Many commentators questioned China’s commitment to opening up its telecoms market when the State Council said in 2014 it would create a new company by combining the tower operations of the country’s three main carriers. The result was ...

Stronger stuff
China’s top steelmakers return to growth mode
Feb 22, 2019 (WiC 441)

Among older Chinese there is a traditional view that only a few special birthdays should be celebrated. The most important is the 60th because everything starts anew after a 60-year cycle (the belief combines the 12 zodiacs with the five ...

It’s the pits
Brewing scandal over ‘missing’ court documents
Jan 18, 2019 (WiC 437)

The coal business is often a dirty one, its critics contend. And that is the view again from China this winter as air quality worsens. Adding to the grim feeling in the air there was another deadly mine collapse in the coal-rich province ...

The brains on the panel
Huawei moves deeper into solar power with new types of power inverters
Nov 16, 2018 (WiC 432)

What turns a country into a superpower? In economic terms nations that produce the most goods and services have an edge, or those that can amass the most capital to spend on them. Another factor is how successfully a country can generate and ...

Gulf in price
How foreign petrol stations will compete in China
Oct 5, 2018 (WiC 427)

Two cars drive into a Gulf Oil filling station. They are 105 years and two continents apart. One driver admires the station’s pagoda-shaped design, and the other the cheap fuel on sale. Which motorist was living in the US in 1913 and which one ...

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