Greece on Tuesday handed over the Olympic flame to organisers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, a day after the lighting ceremony was disrupted by activists calling for the event to be postponed.
Monthly Archives For October 2021
China Ramps up Coal Production to Highest Level This Year to Avert Energy Crisis
China’s months-long energy crisis could last until next spring, but the government says it has boosted production to meet the shortage of supply.
China says moon rocks offer new clues to volcanic activity
A Chinese researcher says moon rocks brought back to Earth by a robotic spacecraft last year have provided new insights into ancient lunar volcanic activity …
China will prevent platform monopolies and disorderly expansion of capital, Xi says
China will prevent monopolistic behaviours by internet platform companies and the disorderly expansion of capital, state Xinhua News Agency quoted president Xi Jinping as saying on Tuesday.
China Unicom Hohhot tests Huawei’s XMC-3E product
China Unicom Hohhot and Huawei have completed the initial test of the latest XMC-3E ODU product. The test used a 112-MHz channel space and the 4096QAM modulation scheme, and achieved a single-channel …
Xinhua Silk Road: 2021 Annual conference of Financial Street Forum to kick off in Beijing on Wed.
The 2021 Annual Conference of Financial Street Forum is set to open on Wednesday in Beijing, the organizer said at a press conference. The three-day event with the theme of “economic resilience and …
Housing slowdown threatens China’s economic muscle
Story continues But falling prices are unlikely to spawn a crisis of homeowners underwater on mortgages, the way they did in the U.S. financial crisis — in large part because down payments in China …
China’s Curbs on Fertilizer Exports to Worsen Global Price Shock
Chinese authorities are imposing new hurdles for fertilizer exporters amid growing concerns over surging power prices and food production, a move that could worsen a global price shock and food …
Volvo Cars’ IPO valuation is suitably smoggy
The marque owned by China’s Geely could be listed at around $21 bln. Hiving off the combustion engine unit was meant to boost its green bona fides. Yet a reliance on gas guzzlers and optimistic…
China approves imports of breeding pigs from Ireland
China has allowed imports of breeding pigs from Ireland, the country’s customs office said on Tuesday. The breeding pigs must be put under quarantine in Ireland for no less than 30 days, before export …
WEEKLY: China’s steel exports weak, imports grow popular
Export prices of Chinese steel reversed down last week, with that for SS400 4.75mm hot-rolled coil (HRC) shrinking by $8/tonne on week to $931/t FOB from North China’s Tianjin port as of October 15, …
The United States surpassed China and has become the world’s headquarters for Bitcoin mining
The U.S. has become one of the main Bitcoin mining hubs of the crypto market after the Chinese government’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies. The U.S. now has the largest share of global Bitcoin mining …
The First Bitcoin Futures ETF | U.S. Overtakes China In Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin topped $60,000 for the first time in six months on Friday, as markets grew confident that the Securities and Exchange Commission would approve the launch of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based …