The Chinese Moon Festival also calls for the right outfit. These ladies in a Beijing park dressed up as the moon goddess Cháng’é (嫦娥) on their day off. According to Chinese mythology, the moon goddess lives, well, on the moon, always with the Jade Rabbit (玉兔, yùtù) by her side. Both characters, by the way, […]
The closure of the Chinese ports of Ningbo-Zhoushan and Yantian is having a negative impact on global trade. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) estimates trade flows for 75 countries around the globe through its Kiel Trade Indicator and has currently calculated that prolonged congestion of freight ports is leading to stagnation of […]
After the stock price of southern Chinese real estate company Evergrande continued to plummet on Tuesday (China.Table reported), Xu Jiayin, chairman of the board of directors of the troubled real estate giant, spread hope in a letter addressed to his employees. It was certain that the company would put “its darkest hour” behind it, wrote […]
Jean Liu, executive of ride-hailing company DiDi Chuxing has announced her retirement from the company, according to Reuters. Liu studied information technology, first at Beijing University, then at Harvard. She worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong for 12 years before joining Didi Chuxing in 2014.Jennifer Chua is the new CEO of […]
China is one step closer to its plan to complete its space station by the end of the year. A Chinese resupply spacecraft carrying robots docked with an outpost in space on Monday during the 4th of 11 missions (China.Table reported).A Long March-7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-3 spacecraft launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center […]
These two children from Lincheng baked moon cakes for the Chinese Moon Festival. With sweet or savory fillings, they are eaten as dessert when the families watch the full moon together. One legend is not only about love, but also about climate change: according to this legend, a terrible threat terrified the world. Ten suns […]
Conglin (Forrest) Deng (38) has been elected chief executive of Moxian with immediate effect. Previously, Deng was appointed as director of the internet media marketing service provider in Hong Kong. Since 2016, he was responsible for managing its blockchain and bitcoin mining-related investments as the General Manager of Beijing Jiuteng Investment Limited. Prior to this […]
A top Chinese official has assured U.S. financial regulators that the crackdown by China’s regulators is not aimed at decoupling from the U.S. or international financial markets. Rather, the goal of these measures is to better regulate consumer-oriented platform companies as they play a key role in promoting “common prosperity” and reducing wealth inequality, Fang […]
Douyin, the Chinese version of the short video app TikTok, is restricting the time children under 14 are allowed to use the app. In the future, the time should only be 40 minutes per day. Between 10 PM and 6 AM., young people will then no longer be able to access Douyin at all. Douyin […]
Karl Deppen (55) will be appointed to the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG on December 1st. Deppen will then be responsible for Truck China, including the Beijing Foton Daimler Automotive joint venture. Deppen is currently head of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil. Previously, he was CFO of Daimler Greater China, among other positions.After 35 years […]
