EV to help China become leading vehicle export power
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MG, short for Morris Garages, a vehicle brand owned by SAIC Motor Corporation Limited
Ships loaded with 10,000 MG4 electric vehicles left Shanghai's Haitong port for Europe on Tuesday, marking China's largest single shipment of EVs bound for overseas markets.
In the fourth quarter, the hatchback is expected to be sold in around 20 major nations on the continent. By 2023, it will be available in some 80 countries around the world, said SAIC President Wang Xiaoqiu on Tuesday at the model's launch ceremony in Shanghai.
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China's shipbuilding sector continues to top world market
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On April 13, the Bacalhau floating production, storage, and offloading vessel hull and living building project (FPSO-8) built by DSIC, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, successfully completed the docking!
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Bike-sharing boosts China' green goals
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Meituan and Hallo shared bikes at Zhoujiazhuang North Road of Beijing on 16th Sep 2022.
China's popular bike-sharing is helping achieve the country's green goals as the pedaling activity contributes to carbon reduction.
Over the past year, users of shared bicycles and e-bikes via internet platform Meituan have saved 436,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide by cycling, the company said in a report released ahead of World Cycling Day.
Chinese companies rush into battery-swap business
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EV Charging Station of Xpeng.
With more cities releasing policies on new energy vehicle battery swapping, the sector is expected to usher in a boom and better support the development of NEVs.
Earlier this month, Chongqing in Southwest China released their NEV battery swapping pilot plan, saying that the city will set up more than 200 battery-swap stations and promote more than 10,000 NEVs capable of battery swapping by 2023.
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China's policy bank provides 197.3 bln yuan in green loans in Q1
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Joint debut of low-carbon bank card in Guangdong province on May 2nd 2022.
The China Development Bank, one of the country's policy banks, has provided 197.3 billion yuan (29.8 billion U.S. dollars) in green loans in the first quarter of the year.
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China's power consumption likely to rise 5-6 pct in 2022
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China's power consumption is expected to rise between 5 percent and 6 percent in 2022, according to a report from the China Electricity Council.
Uncertainties such as the COVID-19 epidemic both at home and abroad, international situations and temperatures in the summer and the winter will affect the country's power consumption, the report said.
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Luosifen sales soar demonstrating economic resilience
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Luosifen, an iconic dish from the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou and known for its pungent smell, registered remarkable growth in sales and exports despite global economic uncertainties and resurgences of COVID-19 infections.
The smelly yet tasty dish, listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Guangxi in 2008, is made from pickled bamboo shoots, dried white radish, fried peanuts, fried tofu skins and served in a spicy noodle broth flavored with river snails.
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Shadeed Abdulmateen Got Death Sentence in China for Killing Ex-Girlfriend
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U.S. national Shadeed Abdulmateen has been sentenced to death for the 2021 murder of his former Chinese girlfriend near a bus stop, a court in east China announced on Thursday.
According to the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court in Zhejiang province, the American citizen met his victim, a 21-year-old woman identified only by her last name Chen, in early 2019. Abdulmateen “falsely claimed to be divorced and single,” before gradually establishing a relationship with Chen.
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China's passenger car sales up 8% in Nov 2020
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The sales volume of China's passenger cars in November reached 2.08 million, up 8 percent year-on-year, yicai.com reported citing data from the China Passenger Car Association on Tuesday.
"The sales showed a low-to-high trend this year," said Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the CPCA, noting retail sales were mainly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and an early Spring Festival. But the market had maintained robust growth since July.
China absorbs 38.4% of Namibia's exports in October
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China maintained its position as Namibia's main export market, absorbing 38.4 percent of all goods, ahead of South Africa in the second place which absorbed 13.9 percent, according to country's monthly statistics figures released Wednesday.
The composition of goods exported remained the same mainly comprising of minerals such as non-ferrous metals, metalliferous ores and metal scrap, non-metallic mineral manufactures, as well as non-monetary gold, said Namibia Statistician Agency Statistician-General Alex Shimuafeni.
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Huawei 'disappointed' over ruling in Meng Wanzhou case
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Huawei Technologies Co expressed disappointment over a Canadian court's ruling over its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, and the company said it will continue to stand with Meng in her pursuit of justice and freedom.
The company released a statement saying "Huawei is disappointed in the ruling today by the Supreme Court of British Columbia. We have repeatedly expressed confidence in Meng's innocence."
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Forest fire kills 19 in China
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The forest fire had taken place in the same Liangshan Prefecture in 2019, at that time 27 firemen and 3 locals were killed, above is the photo taken on the1st of April 2019.
A forest fire in southwestern China has killed 19 people who were fighting the blaze and hundreds of reinforcements have been sent in as nearby residents are evacuated, officials and state media report.
The area threatened by the fire in Sichuan province is thinly populated, but there was no estimate on how many people were leaving the evacuation zone.
China's virus-hit Wuhan gradually revives
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A BorgWarner factory in Caidian E-develop Zone of Wuhan city.
Shopkeepers in the city at the centre of the virus outbreak in China are reopening but customers have been scarce after authorities lifted more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for two months.
"I'm so excited, I want to cry," said a woman on Monday on the Chuhe Hanjie pedestrian mall who would give only the English name Kat.
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