Tag Archives: China

As the world prepares to discuss more aggressive cuts to carbon emissions at the UN’s COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, China has just sent out the worst possible advance signal. It is going to loosen restrictions on coal mining in …

China’s second largest Real Estate company Evergrande is over $305 billion in debt. As the company struggles to repay creditors, global markets have responded with selloffs. Questions loom about a government bailout and whether Evergrande is in fact too big …

Supply chain and logistics industry have been directly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. As an integral part of value chains, both within and across international borders, logistics firms facilitate trade and commerce and help businesses get their products to customers. …

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) could facilitate unprecedented levels of cooperation between East and West. Despite very different demographic histories, China and Europe currently share the challenge of an ageing population. The BRI could enable the two regions to …

All over the world, agriculture is threatened by degraded soils. Stripped of carbon from intensive farming, soils erode more easily, host fewer microbes and hold less water and nutrients. Fertilisers and pesticides applied to improve crop yields can leach beneath …

Heavy rains and floods in China and Europe have recently dominated headlines around the globe. Most-affected was China’s Henan province, home to one-tenth of country’s total agriculture output and 36% of China’s total primary Lead capacity (used in batteries) and …

Despite the pandemic, global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) increased by 43% in 2020. Total EV sales in China were 1.3 million, an increase of 8% compared to 2019, and 41% of all EVs sold worldwide. Though Europe sold more …

China contains four of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots. China will host the COP15 Biodiversity Conference. Chinese businesses must step up their actions on nature and can help achieve carbon neutrality All eyes are focused on efforts to agree a …

Businesses have not paid enough attention to the increasing role software will have in environmental regulation and environmentalism; Machine learning can help environmental regulators analyse enormous data streams, helping them uncover new information and work more efficiently; Software can help …

HBL became the first Pakistani bank to open a branch and serve clients in Beijing, China’s capital city. The inauguration ceremony for HBL Beijing was attended by clients, regulators and senior executives of the Bank from across HBL’s international network. …

By the end of 2019, there were over half a million electric buses in use around the world. Far from being a global phenomena though, 98 percent of these were located in China. Although the country’s subsidizing of this electric rollout …

Members of the Chinese diaspora turned into billionaires are making up a significant portion of the ultra-rich in several Asian countries. According to the recently released 2021 Hurun Rich List, ethnic Chinese are making up around 65 percent of U.S. dollar billionaires residing …