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News on Energy & Resources in China

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Will lithium drive next Aussie resource boom?
Mar 24, 2017 (WiC 359)

China’s quest for iron ore resources in Australia has long been a bumpy road. Citic Group, for example, has yet to make any profit from its hefty investment in an iron ore mine in 2006, which has so far run up $4.5 billion in provisions. Other ...

A tale of two smelters

Short-sellers question Hongqiao’s vastly superior performance to Chalco
Mar 17, 2017 (WiC 358)

Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) is one of the worst-performing state firms of recent times. Over the five financial years between 2011 and 2015, it ran up Rmb22 billion ($3.3 billion) of red ink. By comparison, its private sector rival China ...

The powerful connections of China’s most mysterious oil baron
Jan 6, 2017 (WiC 350)

Regina Ip, a Hong Kong politician known locally as the “Iron Lady”, is campaigning to become the territory’s top official in March. But what does she have in common with Czech President Milos Zeman? Well, both have appointed Ye ...

Hardened resolve

Indebted Sinosteel gets equity lifeline as sector shows signs of recovery
Sep 30, 2016 (WiC 341)

At the G20 meeting in Hangzhou at the start of September, world leaders took turns to press the Chinese to make cuts in their steel capacity. Xi Jinping responded by reaffirming his target of bringing down output by 100 to 150 million metric ...

A handful of dust

The rise and fall of a coal baron offers a cautionary tale
Aug 19, 2016 (WiC 336)

Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan is one of the most famous paintings from the Cultural Revolution era. It shows a very young Mao returning to his home province of Hunan in 1921 to organise a miners’ strike: at the time one of the newly ...

The next ‘overcapacity’ sector

Investor Francois Perrin warns China’s electric car battery boom could bust
Jul 15, 2016 (WiC 333)

Shenzhen, on a Friday morning, a couple of weeks ago. We are visiting BYD’s new electric vehicle battery production plant, the largest EV battery plant in China. With 10GWh of designed production capacity and Rmb6 billion ($897 million) of ...

Welded together

Can a Baosteel-Wisco merger trigger further industry consolidation?
Jul 8, 2016 (WiC 332)

At the end of June, workers installed the final segment of the world’s longest sea bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau. Guangzhou-based newspaper New Express proudly trumpeted how the 30-kilometre steel bridge has used as much metal as ...

From Congo to cars

Why Chinese firms are snapping up cobalt mines in Africa
Jun 17, 2016 (WiC 329)

In the early 1960s the CIA plotted to assassinate the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first freely elected, post-colonial president, Patrice Lumumba. It was the height of the Cold War and the Kennedy administration was concerned the Soviet Union ...

Paying the price

Why Husky may sue its longstanding partner CNOOC over their gas deal
Jun 10, 2016 (WiC 328)

The working relationship between oil producer CNOOC and Li Ka-shing, one of Asia’s wealthiest men, goes back a long way. In late 1999 CNOOC was planning a New York listing but its IPO was cancelled due to weak investor interest. The state ...

China wants a say in fixing bullion prices
Jun 3, 2016 (WiC 327)

When Samuel Montagu set up his merchant bank in 1853, the British Empire was in its full pomp. The Great Exhibition – showcasing goods from across the empire – had been held in London two years earlier. That same year, gold had been ...

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