To mitigate academic pressure on Chinese students and assuage parents’ concerns about giving birth to more than one child and address the country’s worsening demographic risk, China is clamping down …
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Tesla, Chinese start-ups eclipse Toyota, VW in the world’s largest EV market as buyers focus on cutting-edge technology
Top carmakers’ electric car sales have disappointed so far this year, as they are yet to hit upon a winning formula in China, say industry observers.
Is Bitcoin future safe? What if China completely bans crypto mining?
Mining operations may get further decentralised and test Bitcoin’s anti-fragile nature if there are more crackdowns.
China’s Space Ladder Vision Would Be a $200 Billion Space Shuttle Mistake
China has been pretty good at large engineering projects. Readers of Nextbigfuture over the last 15 years know that Nextbigfuture tracks all of China’s …
China’s arms trade: which countries does it buy from and sell to?
China has long been engaged in an arms race with other global leaders to import and produce the most advanced military technology. But where does it acquire its foreign weapons, and where do its own…
Strained ties with India, other nations lead to dip in China’s weapon export: Report
An article on Foreign Policy has analysed why China’s weapon export has plunged. It said that snazzy weapons mean a lot less if you don’t have friends and this is why the world doesn’t want…
The only mobile service office on an island
On the island of Hengsha, 60 kilometers north of downtown Shanghai, many older adults rely on a 10-square-meter mobile service office. As the only mobile service office on the island, one person …
No Stealth for You: Why China Won’t Export Its J-20 Fighter
The Chinese government has never exported, nor even tried to export, its J-20 stealth fighter. There’s one major reason why. In the years immediately following the Chengdu-built J-20’s 2011 debut, …
How China grew from buyer to major arms trade player
China has long been engaged in an arms race with other global leaders to import and produce the most advanced military technology. But where does it acquire its foreign weapons, and where do its own…
China’s steelmakers need cleaner process to put climate goals in reach, report says
Industry is the second-largest carbon emitter after the power sector, but this could be reduced if it moves to electric, according to US think tank.
China’s crypto crackdown results in easier and more profitable Bitcoin mining
Mining Bitcoin has reportedly become easier and more profitable because of the current crackdown of crypto mining farms in China.
Why I’m So Excited About the Instacart of China
Think of the company as the Instacart of China, but better in some ways. The company operates in 29 cities across China. Users order what they want on the namesake app with no service fees…
Tencent, Alibaba-backed studio in spotlight ahead of Hong Kong IPO as China’s video gaming boom continues
While the Covid-19 pandemic has slowed the world to a crawl, the success of a mobile game about a snail making its way through a post-apocalyptic planet has lifted its Chinese developer’s profile …