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SHANGHAI — Ford has plans for a joint venture with Chinese firm Anhui Zotye Automobile to build electric vehicles in China under a new brand, tapping into a boom for EVs in the world’s top auto market. China, struggling with alarming pollution levels in major cities, is aggressively pushing plug-in vehicles and has poured in […]
The Chinese auto industry is going through an important change right now. Just a decade ago, Chinese cars were known for being cheap knockoffs of models from other more established automakers. Lately, a few of these automakers have emerged as real contenders poised to break into both the American and European markets. Chery, the state-owned […]
Published time: 14 Jul, 2017 17:48 As temperatures rise throughout China’s summer months, the Yuncheng Salt Lake turns a variety of stunning colours, with the amazing natural phenomenon now captured by satellites in space. The Yuncheng Salt Lake, also known as the ‘Dead Sea of China’ due its high salt levels, is a popular tourist […]
A new PriceWaterhouse Coopers study projects that China will overtake the United States to become the world’s largest economy by 2030, but Steven Wang expects more: “If China wants to be a truly great power, it needs to be a more compassionate society,” says the former Rhodes scholar. At just 28, Wang has witnessed radical […]
Baidu Inc, the top Chinese internet search firm, has formed a broad alliance with 50 partners to promote self-driving cars, pitting its Apollo platform against Alphabet Inc’s system, it said on Wednesday, in hopes of getting the vehicles on the road in China by 2019. The alliance includes partnerships with automakers, suppliers, startups, universities and […]
Remember that Chinese public transit experiment running an elevated bus over 300 meters of track along a major roadway? Unfortunately, the test site started gathering dust as “financial problems” and other suspicious setbacks reportedly set in months after the oddball vehicle’s unveiling. But now it’s official: Chinese authorities believe the whole thing was a scam […]
With its powder-blue walls and pink desk lamps, the Blued headquarters is a kaleidoscope of colors with a kind of Seussian aesthetic. The pièce de résistance: a rainbow road meandering through the main floor, befitting for a startup that’s building China’s largest gay dating app. But for all the many hues inside Blued, the whimsical […]
Ever since China started drinking the capitalist Kool-Aid in 1978, cars have been as viral as opium, with bikes cast aside as Mao-era relics. But communal super bikes hooked with the internet of things are back, and leading the charge is Mobike, founded by 36-year-old buzz-cut Joe Xia. Since its start in 2015, Mobike has […]
FILE – In this Tuesday, May 2, 2017 file photo, a U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, is installed at a golf course in Seongju, South Korea. Clashes between residents and police over the deployment of an advanced U.S. anti-missile system highlight a divisive issue ahead of South Korea’s […]
Image sources: Getty, Wikipedia China and Wikipedia have always had a contentious relationship and it appears that authorities are beginning to realize that if they can’t allow access to the site, they’ll have to build one of their own. But the leader of the new project says “our goal is not to catch up, but […]
