China, 中国
- BYD to overtake Volkswagen ventures as China’s top producer amid surge in EV deliverieswww.scmp.com BYD set to usurp VW as China’s top carmaker amid surge in EV deliveries
BYD’s total deliveries have exceeded perennial leader Volkswagen’s volume this year through October.
> BYD’s total deliveries have exceeded perennial leader Volkswagen’s volume this year through October.
> BYD is set to overtake perennial market leader Volkswagen as China’s biggest carmaker in 2024 after outselling the German company’s joint venture units in the first 10 months, as the growing popularity of battery-powered cars strengthens its market dominance..
> “Its performance this year will largely beat Wang’s annual forecast of 3.6 million units,” said Phate Zhang, founder of the Shanghai-based company. “It now has an overwhelming advantage over all assemblers in China.”.
> BYD also outsold Tesla in the third quarter in terms of volume and revenue. It delivered 1.13 million electric cars in the three months to September 30, a 38 per cent jump from a year earlier. Tesla recorded 462,890 units in the same period. Revenue jumped 24 per cent to 201.1 billion yuan (US$28.2 billion) versus Tesla’s US$25.2 billion..
> Meanwhile, the Shenzhen-based company achieved a new milestone when it churned out its 10 millionth unit after more than two decades in the business. The Denza Z9 was delivered to Feng Ji, the founder and CEO of Game Science, which produced the hit video game Black Myth: Wukong.
- Beijing plans 12-inch wafer fab, pouring US$4.6 billion into new chip projectwww.scmp.com Beijing plans 12-inch wafer fab, pouring US$4.6 billion into new chip project
Beijing Yandong Microelectronics will take a controlling position with a 25 per cent stake, while other investors include display maker BOE Technology.
> Beijing is set to spend 33 billion yuan (US$4.6 billion) building a 12-inch wafer fabrication facility, led by state-owned enterprises and funds, marking another step in China’s efforts to boost domestic semiconductor production.
> Leading firms involved in the new facility include Beijing Yandong Microelectronics (YDME), which is listed on Shanghai’s Star Market, and BOE Technology, China’s top display maker.
> This year, companies including Huahong Semiconductor, China Resources Microelectronics, and Guangzhou ZenSemi have all announced progress on 12-inch wafer fabs.
> Meanwhile, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, which established the mainland’s first 12-inch foundry in 2004, reported full utilisation of its 12-inch capacity in the third quarter. Revenue from 12-inch wafers accounted for 78.5 per cent of its 15.6 billion yuan total for the quarter. The company expects to release an additional 30,000 wafers per month in the fourth quarter.
> Recently, Chinese chip design firms have become concerned that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s leading contract chipmaker, might suspend 7-nanometre node services for certain AI chip clients due to mounting pressure from the US. The Taiwanese chipmaker recently told mainland clients that it would no longer accept orders from them for advanced chips after TSMC technology was found in a product from US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies.
- The US has no leverage to hurt China's economy
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- Xi Jinping weighs pros and cons of China’s shrinking populationwww.scmp.com Xi Jinping weighs pros and cons of China’s shrinking population
Excerpts of speech to economic officials last year reveal Chinese leader’s views on reduced workforce and pressure on resources.
> China’s shrinking population brings both negative and positive effects, President Xi Jinping has said, noting that a lighter environmental burden is among the benefits of a smaller population.
> The Chinese leader also defended the “correctness and effectiveness” of past birth control policies, according to excerpts from a speech to the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission.
> He made the speech in May last year but the excerpts were published for the first time on Friday in Qiushi, the Communist Party’s top theoretical journal.
> The impact of population decline “must be viewed in a dialectical manner”, Xi told commission officials.
> But Xi also acknowledged the negative effects, such as a reduced labour force and weaker consumer and investment momentum.
> “Overall, the impact of population decline on economic and social development has both positive and negative aspects. We cannot look at it from just one side. Some issues require long-term consideration, and we should avoid rushing to conclusions … and we should work to maximise benefits while avoiding harm,” he said.
> China faces deepening demographic challenges as its birth rate plummets. Only 9 million births were reported in the country in 2023, the lowest since records began in 1949, as the population dropped for the second year in a row to 1.4 billion, a decline of more than 2 million.
> National and local governments have rolled out a raft of policies, such as cash subsidies and extended maternity and paternity leave. But demographers argue these have failed to address deeper issues such as high living costs, insufficient childcare support and persistent gender inequality.
> “The pace of population transition is fast, the population decline has come earlier than expected, but overall it follows the general pattern of modernisation development worldwide,” he was quoted as saying by the party journal, which regularly highlights internal leadership speeches months after they are given.
- The four-legged robots are being used to remove tons of garbage from Mount Tai — and guilt-trip tourists who litter.www.sixthtone.com China’s Solution for Trash-Strewn Mountains: Robot Dog Porters
The four-legged robots are being used to remove tons of garbage from Mount Tai — and guilt-trip tourists who litter.
- Shenzhen unveils centre for third-generation semiconductors amid self-sufficiency drivewww.scmp.com Shenzhen unveils national centre for third-generation semiconductor materials
The Shenzhen platform is part of the National Third-Generation Semiconductor Technology Innovation Centre, first launched in 2021.
- Daily Life and Slow Travels in Mainland Chinareturntoasia.substack.com Daily Life and Slow Travels in Mainland China
Food, soul, and city walks from a Chinese American's visit.
- China has leapfrogged in electrification to become the first major electrostatermi.org X-Change: The Race to the Top - RMI
The cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States
- China should learn from Russian ‘resilience’ in sanctions defence: researcherswww.scmp.com China should learn from Russian ‘resilience’ in sanctions defence: researchers
Government researchers have recommended several steps China should take to prepare for potential sanctions, using Russia as case study.
- Chen Weihua: China’s peaceful rise is a miracle unprecedented in human historysocialistchina.org Chen Weihua: China’s peaceful rise is a miracle unprecedented in human history - Friends of Socialist China
We are pleased to reprint below the speech delivered by Chen Weihua to our September 28 conference celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Chen describes the founding of the People’s Republic as a turning point in Chinese history: “Chairman Mao’s declarati...
- Taiwan’s soaring energy prices and growing outages hit chipmaker TSMCwww.ft.com Taiwan’s soaring energy prices and growing outages hit chipmaker TSMC
Industry loses competitiveness as government struggles to afford cheap-power incentives
> Taiwan’s laboured energy transition is straining its industry, with sudden electricity price jumps and growing outage risks affecting companies including Asia’s biggest — the semiconductor giant TSMC.
> Following a series of price increases, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company now expects to pay more for power in its home country than anywhere else. The world’s largest chipmaker operates plants in the US and Japan and is building one in Germany.
> “Basically, the price has doubled in the past few years. So next year, we think that [the] electricity price for us in Taiwan will be the highest in all the regions that we operate,” Wendell Huang, chief financial officer, told investors last month.
> Although the pace of Taiwan’s power price increases since 2022 is still slower than in some other energy import-dependent advanced economies such as France and South Korea, government researchers expect industrial electricity cost to exceed that in Japan and South Korea, Taiwan’s closest competitors in export markets.
- President Xi Jinping’s campaigns to crack down on corrupt government officials and promote a more equal distribution of income have made displays of wealth not just passe, but potentially dangerous.www.bloomberg.com LVMH’s Empty Chinese Megastore Signals Deepening Luxury Crash
Upmarket brands are scrambling to adjust strategy after being wrongfooted by the rapid downturn in Chinese spending.
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- China needs more ‘skilled talent’, and they deserve better pay, Premier Li Qiang urgeswww.scmp.com China needs more ‘skilled talent’, and to pay them more, Premier Li Qiang urges
China must adjust to a changing landscape of worker needs amid push for ‘high-level scientific and technological self-reliance’.
> Premier Li Qiang has called for better vocational education and cultivation of craftsmanship talent, as the world’s second-largest economy is building up a skilled industrial workforce amid an intensifying tech rivalry with the United States.
> China needs to cultivate more sophisticated skilled talents to help the nation achieve “high-level scientific and technological self-reliance”, Li said on Sunday during an inspection tour in Shanghai.
> The call follows a plan unveiled by the central government last month to enlarge its highly skilled talent pool as China pushes for independent technological innovation while the US continues with efforts to curb the former’s hi-tech access.
> Calling it an adjustment to a changing landscape, Li emphasised “the spirit of model workers, labour and craftsmanship” during his visit to a vocational school in the city, state news agency Xinhua reported.
> With a goal of strengthening the nation’s technological self-reliance, he underscored the urgency of developing expertise in fields critical to emerging technology and advanced industries amid a global industrial transformation.
- Alibaba cuts ‘dozens of employees’ at metaverse unit as hype in sector cools downwww.scmp.com Alibaba cuts ‘dozens of employees’ at metaverse unit as sector’s hype cools down
The lay-offs affected Alibaba metaverse unit Yuanjing’s operations in Shanghai and Hangzhou, according to a report.
> Alibaba Group Holding is scaling down its metaverse operations, according to a source familiar with the matter, making it the latest Big Tech company to pull back resources from the once-popular sector.
> Dozens of employees at Yuanjing, the metaverse unit of e-commerce giant Alibaba, have been laid off, as part of a restructuring that aims to optimise and improve efficiency in the organisation, the source said.
> The lay-offs, which were first reported by Chinese media on Friday, affected Yuanjing’s operations in both Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province. Yuanjing, which had received “billions of yuan” in investment, previously employed a few hundred workers, according to a report by online news outlet AI Jingxuanshe.
> The source, however, said the Alibaba unit will continue to exist, with a focus on metaverse applications and tools, as well as providing metaverse-based services to customers.
- China is closing a South China Sea surveillance gap with a new radar made to spot stealth aircraft, satellite images suggestwww.businessinsider.com China is closing a South China Sea surveillance gap with a new radar made to spot stealth aircraft, satellite images suggest
The system, purported to have advanced counter-stealth capabilities, could challenge how US forces operate in the region.
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- Asia Times — China has no interest in saving relations with Israelasiatimes.com China has no interest in saving relations with Israel - Asia Times
There is a growing trend worldwide where countries are becoming increasingly reliant on China for their economies and the US for their security.
- A retired railroader looks at China’s fantastic railroad systemwww.struggle-la-lucha.org A retired railroader looks at China’s fantastic railroad system
A telling comparison between capitalist decay in the United States and surging economic growth in the socialist People’s Republic of China is in their railroad systems. Between 1950 and 2000,…
- China extends visa-free policy to nine more countriesnews.cgtn.com China extends visa-free policy to nine more countries
China has extended its unilateral visa-free policy to more countries, providing visa-free treatment to travelers holding ordinary passports from nine countries, namely: Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein and South
> China has extended its unilateral visa-free policy to more countries, providing visa-free treatment to travelers holding ordinary passports from nine countries, namely: Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein and South Korea, as of November 8, 2024, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday.
- China’s clean-energy boom creates 7.4 million jobswww.scmp.com China’s clean-energy boom creates 7.4 million jobs
The sector is expected to keep on generating job growth, but perhaps not enough to cure the country’s unemployment woes.
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- In Chinese Megacities, ‘Ultra-Long Commutes’ Are on the Risewww.sixthtone.com In Chinese Megacities, ‘Ultra-Long Commutes’ Are on the Rise
A growing number of people in China’s largest cities are traveling over 90 minutes each way for work, a new report has found.
- China's manufacturing PMI re-enters expansion territory in October, boosting economic outlooknews.cgtn.com China's manufacturing PMI re-enters expansion territory in October, boosting economic outlook
China's manufacturing sector has shown signs of robust recovery as the purchasing managers' index (PMI) re-entered the expansionary territory in October.China's manufacturing PMI rose to 50.1 in October, up 0.3 percentage point from the previous month,
- How China could revive its bruised and dwindling billionaire classasiatimes.com How China can revive its bruised and dwindling billionaire class - Asia Times
Is the “smart” money still fleeing China? Whether it’s wise to leave Asia’s biggest economy is debatable. What’s not is that the mainland billionaire
> The last four years have been hard on China’s superrich and if Xi’s team doesn’t change course many more will become extinct.
- China on course for record harvest in boost for food security drivewww.scmp.com China on course for record harvest in boost for food security drive
Minister says the country is set to produce more than 700 million tonnes of grain for the first time despite extreme weather events.
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- Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense admitted that the personal information of Gu Lixiong and other high-ranking generals was leaked: a review and negligencenews.vocofm.com Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense admitted that the personal information of Gu Lixiong and other high-ranking generals was leaked: a review and negligence - VOCO News | North American Chinese real-time news
Taiwan media "China Times" exclusively reported on Monday (October 10) that the Political Style Office of Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense last week sent a list of all personnel within the Ministry of National Defense who must declare property, along with personal declaration information, to th...
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- Xi Jinping makes economic-centric instructions to spur China’s growthwww.scmp.com Xi Jinping makes economic-centric instructions to spur China’s growth
President Xi Jinping says China’s economic and technological development zones should focus on modernisation, innovation and internal dynamism.
- [audiobook] 07/32: Selected Works Vol. 3 by Mao Zedong
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6021242
> Thoughts on this writing of Mao's? > > It's about 45 minutes long or thereabouts. > > "Oppose Stereotyped Party Writing" > > Seems good for me as a Communications major.
- Moving to China as a westerner:what should I expect and what do I need to do?
I tried asking on reddit, but tbh everyone is an asshole over there and were not giving me very detailed answers
This is gonna be a fairly complex question with a fairly complex answer, I know. A few things to preface to reassure that I'm not dashing into this without thinking.
1.I am not moving tomorrow. I'm getting my degree in my home country first, and then moving. (Obviously I will ask again when the time comes, since policies and situations can change)
2.I am planning on learning and becoming proficient(if not fluent) in Chinese
3.Im planning on taking internships and will have a degree in an industrial field, so I won't be completely unqualified for potential positions.
4.I know china isn't luxury gay space communism
Anyway, what I wanted to ask is a few subquestions in relation to one big overall question.
A.What is the process from getting from my country (the usa) to China going to be like? I mean, obviously I'm flying, but I've never moved countries before so I want to know what I'll need to do beforehand, how long the process will take, and what might prevent me from going in the first place
B.Is there any specific locations in China that you would recommend? Personally I'm thinking either Shanghai or Chongqing, however I generally just don't know where I'd fit in to start. I understand if I might not be perfect for a recommendation, but if there are some ideas that I could he presented with, I would greatly appreciate it, and I can always move to a different area later
(Edit:I'm also from an area with very few natural disasters. Should I move somewhere more inland, or northern, since I don't have experience in preparation and evacuation and such)
C.What is the process and what should I expect for getting a job? I live in the US, so how do I go about getting a job offer from a Chinese company to get a work visa. What would make me more viable as a canidate (besides language skills and a degree and experience, obviously)
D.The great firewall and such. How worried should I be about what I say, both in person and on social media? Also, how much access will I have to the non-chinese world? I've been told there might be access to VPNs, but I feel like that defeats the purpose of the great firewall, no?
E.Services. How does getting access to Healthcare, legal services, etc. Go when I'm not a citizen?
F.How worried should I be about day to day life and crime? How much more/less worried should I be about getting mugged/assaulted/burglarized (obviously depending on the area.)
G.How do I deal with the inevitable culture shocks I'll have?
And finally
H.Will there be any possibility of me obtaining Chinese citizenship? If yes, how long will it take, and what will and won't be available for me for the time im not a citizen? I checked the naturalization law, and it says if I'm stateless I can apply for citizenship if I'm "settled," but I dont exactly know what that means.
I think that covers everything. I'll add as much detail about myself as I am willing to share online (which isn't a ton). Thank you in advance for any help in this matter.
- Kashgar grid connects massive PV storage integrated projectasian-power.com Kashgar grid connects massive PV storage integrated project
The project has 2 million kilowatts of photovoltaic power generation.
- Is Taiwan ‘a US sucker’? Weapons price gouging revealed on National Daywww.scmp.com Is Taiwan ‘a US sucker’? Weapons price gouging revealed on National Day
Taiwanese defence ministry blames manipulation by anti-US forces for claims published on mainland China’s most significant holiday.
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