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Energy & Resources

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Canning workers

As Chalco shows early signs of turnaround, boss calls for State Grid break-up
Mar 14, 2014 (WiC 229)

When Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) paid $14 billion for 9% of Rio Tinto in February 2008 it was seen as a strategy to prevent a takeover by Rio’s great rival BHP Billiton. Any merger between the two leading iron ore firms was regarded as ...

Process management

Why new regulations in Indonesia could be a setback for Chinese industry
Jan 24, 2014 (WiC 223)

Vivere pericolosamente was an Italian phrase used by Indonesian president Sukarno during a national day speech in 1964. It means ‘living dangerously’ and became better known in its English translation as part of the title of a film ...

Defenders of the earths

China’s rare earth producers set to consolidate
Jan 10, 2014 (WiC 221)

f there’s one place that can make a real claim to be the centre of global rare earth production, it is the city of Baotou in Inner Mongolia. The nearby Bayan Obo mining area in the Gobi desert accounts for approximately half the global ...

Puzzling times as steel industry earns profits
Dec 13, 2013 (WiC 220)

Last week Citic Pacific celebrated a milestone – and one that the company’s management readily admits was long overdue. At long last, it loaded its maiden shipment of Australian iron ore onto a vessel bound for one of its steel plants in the ...

What lies beneath?

Pipeline blast leads to recriminations
Nov 29, 2013 (WiC 218)

Forty years ago China’s largest oil refiner Sinopec began building a depot on Huangdao, a small headland that sits on the other side of the bay from the city of Qingdao. Ten years later Huangdao was incorporated into its better-known ...

Who is the man looking to acquire Suntech?
Oct 18, 2013 (WiC 212)

When it comes to investing, Cheng Kin-ming likes to bottom-fish. The Chinese financier (also known as Zheng Jianming when his name is rendered in pinyin) made his first major move in 2003 when he bought the entire 34th floor of the China ...

Breaking up is hard to do

After plague of scandals, critics want to break up oil giant CNPC
Oct 4, 2013 (WiC 211)

As memos go, Reuters describes it as unusually “blunt”. The message was issued last year to staff at China’s second biggest oil major and warned them against taking bribes. Specifically it was circulated to those working on a $900 million ...

In a precarious state

Why China’s steel firms could give nation’s banks a major problem
Sep 13, 2013 (WiC 208)

Earlier this year Warner Brothers released the film Man of Steel. It featured Henry Cavill as Superman, and proved popular with Chinese audiences (see WiC199) in spite of fairly mixed reviews. It did well elsewhere too, earning $658 ...

Time to dig deeper

China’s shale dreams slow to take off
Sep 6, 2013 (WiC 207)

Supporters of shale gas say that industry critics like Vladimir Putin – desperate to defend Russia’s traditional energy firms – are starting to panic, scaremongering on environmental grounds whenever they get the chance. Even Hollywood has ...

Can Sinopec shake its image for bad PR? Well, it’s trying
Sep 6, 2013 (WiC 207)

Gerald Ratner knows a thing or two about bad PR. In what the Daily Telegraph calls the most famous public relations gaffe ever, Gerald Ratner gave a speech to the Institute of Directors in 1991 that he’s regretted ever since. He said of the ...

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