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Energy & Resources

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Reforms in the pipeline

Telecoms model set to be replicated in a bid to reshape oil sector
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 440)

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alternative energy

PetroChina has turned to Qatar for LNG imports
Sep 21, 2018 (WiC 425)

Such is the oil boom in Texas that the state would count as the fourth largest member of OPEC if it were a member country, behind Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. Indeed, the Lone Star state could pump more oil than Iran and Iraq next year, HSBC has ...

Russian roulette

Netizen concern over nuclear deal with Moscow
Jun 22, 2018 (WiC 414)

When a reactor blew up at Chernobyl in April 1986, the Russian authorities sent in firemen with shovels to clear radioactive debris from the plant’s roof. The men wore thin paper masks to protect themselves from the fallout. When their skin ...

Time to take charge

Why Chinese firms are driving the investment boom in lithium
Jun 1, 2018 (WiC 411)

First discovered in ore at a Swedish iron mine in 1817, lithium was initially recommended as a remedy for gout and it had another unsuccessful stint as treatment for high blood pressure. From the 1950s it was more widely prescribed as a mood ...

Men of mystery in spotlight

Tycoons behind CEFC and Zhongzhi sell key assets to state firms, who’s next?
Mar 23, 2018 (WiC 402)

Everyone understands what it means when someone complains that they cannot see the wood for the trees. It is a saying rooted in the mists of time, traversing languages and cultures. And nowhere is it more applicable right now than in China ...

Atomic ambitions

Latest merger signals Chinese aim for global leadership in nuclear power
Mar 9, 2018 (WiC 400)

The Americans have Los Alamos in New Mexico and China has Plant 221 in Qinghai province. The two locations were the birthplaces of atomic bomb programmes. Today they are both open to tourists, with one major difference. Foreign nationals can’t ...

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