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Energy & Resources

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Why life’s a breeze in Zhangbei
Mar 5, 2010 (WiC 51)

Zhangbei County is a poor windswept collection of villages high on a plateau in Northwest Hebei province. Its ancient grassland pastures were once home to nomadic Mongolian herders. Now settled farming communities struggle in the arid and ...

State Grid’s solution to recharging electric cars
Feb 12, 2010 (WiC 49)

The car industry is full of missed opportunities. Ten years ago General Motors abandoned their pioneering electric car, the EV1. Three hundred years before that, the world’s first automobile was built by Jesuit missionary Father Ferdinand ...

Shanxi’s coal own-goal

Was shutting 1,600 coal mines such a good idea?
Feb 5, 2010 (WiC 48)

Herbert Hoover’s experience of the Chinese coal industry is not a well-known one. But long before America’s 31st president stepped into the Oval Office, he had Chinese patriots up-in-arms, when he served as general manager of a very ...

Marshalling the sun

Yingli’s boss marries environmentalism with Red Army battle tactics
Jan 22, 2010 (WiC 46)

At the height of the global recession a small group of men went on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Red Army in the remote Jinggang Mountains. There, Yingli Green Energy CEO Miao Liansheng demanded that his management team swear a sacred ...

The Great Grid of China

The Great Wall, the Grand Canal and now a multi-billion dollar ‘smart’ grid
Jan 15, 2010 (WiC 45)

Communism is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country,” declared Lenin in 1920. It’s not clear if he was speaking literally or metaphorically. But the Chinese government now has some electric choices of its own to make after ...

The nuclear option

China’s faith is in the atom
Jan 8, 2010 (WiC 44)

When premier Wen Jiabao took the podium at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last month, he quoted the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu: “A one-thousand-mile journey starts with the first step”. He was making the point that ...

Beijing’s behemoth

Why China Metallurgical is constantly in the news
Dec 4, 2009 (WiC 41)

Few words better suit a description of China Metallurgical than that of ‘behemoth’. It suggests something massive, sprawling, gargantuan but somewhat mysterious. The South China Morning Post prefers to describe the firm as an ...

A more refined solution

Why Exxon Mobil thought Quanzhou refinery was worth the 12 year wait
Nov 27, 2009 (WiC 40)

More cars. More petrol. More refineries. And more petrol stations. The logic seems clear enough, and the announcement 10 days ago that China’s first Sino-foreign integrated refining complex was open for business reinforces it. With the ...

Well, it sounds good….

China sees major energy potential in permafrost
Nov 6, 2009 (WiC 37)

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.” American poet Robert Frost is unlikely to have imagined that the words he once used to liken the forces of desire and hate would one day be paired again in discussion of China’s ...

Steeling themselves

Another confrontation looms over iron ore?
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

Bloodied but unbowed. That’s how the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) will be reviewing recent events, as the annual negotiations on the contract iron ore price gear up again this month. In truth, last year’s talks ended with the ...

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