China’s national development banks funded $4.6 billion in overseas energy projects in 2020. That is the lowest funding since 2008, new data from Boston University show. Most of the funding went to the construction of a gas pipeline in Nigeria (US $2.5 billion). In total, projects in eight countries were funded. With Serbia, one European […]
Beijing already faced criticism in recent weeks over allegations of forced labor in cotton and tomato production in Xinjiang province, as reported by China.Table. Now the solar industry is also facing allegations of forced labor at the beginning of its supply chain. Xinjiang is considered a central region when it comes to the raw material […]
China’s 31 provinces, directly-administered cities and autonomous regions have set high growth targets of more than five percent for 2021, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports. Twenty of the 31 regions would even target more than 6.5 percent – including economic hubs such as Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong and Zhejiang. Hubei and Hainan provinces lead […]
Robots made domestically accounted for 39 percent of the Chinese market last year, according to a report by the South China Morning Post (SCMP). Beijing had set a target in its “Made in China 2025” strategy to meet 50 percent of its robot demand in 2020 from domestic production. A technology gap between domestic and […]
According to a report in the Financial Times (FT), Chinese state broadcaster CGTN has approached the French media regulator to obtain a broadcasting license. A few weeks ago, the UK regulator (Ofcom) revoked CGTN’s European broadcasting license after concluding that the Chinese Communist Party controlled the channel editorially. As research by China.Table showed it is […]
Forty meters under the river. A visitor looks out of a window of the Baiheliang Museum. The museum is China’s first underwater museum and is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River off the coast of the city of Fuling. Inscriptions and 30,000 characters of Chinese poems are engraved on the riverbed. The […]
In March, Beijing will publish a new five-year plan as part of the People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China. A central component of this will be the so-called Dual Circulation Strategy. China plans to strengthen domestic economic circulation to reduce export dependence. According to Central Committee proposals for the five-year plan and statements […]
