According to different estimates, there are 18 to 30 million truck drivers in China. They often work twelve hours a day, sleep in their vehicles, and are separated from their families for months at a time. Without the often self-employed drivers, hardly any raw materials get to the factories and export goods to China’s ports. […]
The US Solar Energy Industries Association published a set of voluntary guidelines for solar panel manufacturers on Thursday. The aim is to ban components from forced labor abroad from the supply chain, as Reuters reports. The association is responding to repeated criticism that the basic raw material of solar modules, polysilicon, would be extracted with […]
Collector’s picture with bell – tens of thousands of rental bikes have now been discarded in China and stored at collection points outside cities. There are more pictures on the pages of the StraitsTimes.
German-Chinese government consultations start today. Critics complain that they have often been a PR success for Beijing in the past. Foreign policy experts from the coalition and the opposition are calling on the German government to address critical questions about human rights, sanctions, and the CAI investment agreement, as Finn Mayer-Kuckuk analyses. It would be […]
China could record the first population decline since data collection began in 1949. The total population of the People’s Republic is again below 1.4 billion people. This is the result of the new census, reports the Financial Times with reference to informed circles. So far the data is not yet public. The census was already […]
Taiwanese chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing plans to invest the equivalent of €2.3 billion in Nanjing to expand chip production for the automotive sector. New production lines are to be built by 2023 to meet the high demand for 28-nanometer chips, the portal NikkeiAsia reports.Accordingly, this is TSMC’s first investment in China since 2015, when they […]
Baidu and Geely plan to invest the equivalent of almost €6.4 billion in developing smart car technologies over the next five years with their joint venture Jidu Auto, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, 2,500 to 3,000 new employees will be hired over the next two to three years, 500 of them software engineers. The […]
If we’re being honest: We expected more from Xi Jinping’s appearance at the small climate summit of 40 heads of state and government. However, it’s not really surprising that Xi didn’t announce any earth-shattering new climate goals at the invitation of US President Joe Biden. After all, the new climate goal of the US, which […]
According to Caixin, China plans to increase its battery storage capacity to 65 gigawatts by 2025, nearly doubling its current capacity, according to a plan released by the National Development and Reform Commission. According to the plan, the market for large-scale battery storage will grow exponentially in the coming years as more and more storage […]