Is this what going to the movies will look like in the future? Under VR glasses, two visitors in Hangzhou watch the animated film “Crayon Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation” – the first full-length anime blockbuster to be completely designed for the immersive technology of virtual reality. The Japanese manga series about […]
Stefan Pötzl has been President Sales and Marketing at Saic Volkswagen since August. Pötzl previously worked for two years at Audi China in Retail Business Development and Marketing. He is moving from Beijing to Shanghai for his new post. Anke Schrader has been China Director of the Economist Corporate Network in Beijing since July 1. […]
Chinese tech companies continue to expand their lobbying activities in Brussels and Berlin. This is the conclusion of LobbyControl, an independent, non-profit organization that publishes lobby-critical research. In a recent study, LobbyControl examined the power and influence of Chinese tech companies in Europe. It found that Huawei and TikTok are particularly trying to expand their […]
What looks like a rural circus rehearsal is actually a cleverly improvised form of agriculture. Rice farmers from Suqian in the northern province of Jiangsu use the buoyancy of hydrogen balloons to lift a nozzle that sprays pesticides over the fields.
Andreas Fulda – ‘Germany and China’German political scientist Andreas Fulda from the University of Nottingham is often wrongly labeled as a hardliner with nothing positive to say about the People’s Republic of China. Although Fulda is indeed very critical of the autocratic regime in Beijing, his arguments are objective and stringent. This objectivity makes his […]
Chinese authorities have admitted the destruction of a critical gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland following an internal investigation, as reported by the South China Morning Post on the basis of the Chinese investigation report. Last October, the Chinese container ship NewNew Polar Bear, flying the Hong Kong flag, severed the Balticonnector pipeline, Finland’s most […]
China’s largest unmanned cargo drone has successfully completed its first test flight, according to Chinese state media. The aircraft’s maiden flight lasted 20 minutes before it landed safely at an airport in Sichuan province.The twin-engine drone from Chinese manufacturer Tengden has a wingspan of 16 meters. With a commercial load capacity of two tons and […]
Colin Huang, the founder and former CEO of Temu parent company Pinduoduo, is now the richest man in China. According to a Bloomberg report, he has pushed the previous leader Zhong Shanshan, founder of the beverage brand Nongfu Spring, into second place with a fortune of 48.6 billion dollars. Ma Huateng, head of Tencent, and […]
Alexandra Fries has been working as an expert for Vehicle Safety Requirements China and Japan at BMW since June. Fries studied at Tongji University and interned at Audi China. She has been working for BMW in Munich since 2015, most recently in the development and validation of driver behavior models.Carina Behrends has been a member […]
Sales of New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China increased by 37 percent in July compared to the same month last year, reaching a record share of 50.7 percent of car sales. This is according to new data from the China Passenger Car Association. However, overall car sales in the Chinese market decreased by 3.1 percent, […]