On the back of a stellar citrus season, South African fruit farmers will benefit further as China and South Africa have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), boosting trade between the two nations for the next five years. The MOU was signed by the vice president of the China Chamber of Import & Export Foodstuffs…
Chinese scientists have developed a jet engine capable of reaching Mach-16. An aircraft powered by such a powerful thrust could fly from Beijing to London in just two hours. Named the ‘sodramjet’, the prototype testing took place at a wind tunnel in Beijing. The engine displayed excellent fuel efficiency, thrust and operational stability, according to…
Self-driving 5G KFC ‘chicken trucks’ have been spotted in Shanghai, causing a stir on social media. In late November, Twitter users started noticing KFC trucks driving around the Shanghai city centre. The driverless, 5G-enabled food trucks are a project developed between Yum Foods, the parent company of KFC, and Neolix, one of China’s leading tech…
The South African wine industry may receive a surprise boost in the years to come as import tariffs imposed on Australian wine by China sees the Asian giant shopping for wine in other regions. China has imposed export tariffs of between 107%-212% on Australia’s wine industry, following similar bans or tariffs on Australian barley, beef…
China has launched a mission to the moon to retrieve lunar rocks – the first mission of its kind since the USSR in 1976. Monday’s successful launch was China’s 35th this year, as it cements its title as a ‘space-superpower’. Launched off Hainan Island’s Wenchang Space Site, the mission, named Chang’e-5, is the nation’s ambitious…
Sinovac Biotech, one of China’s most promising Covid-19 candidates, has announced its vaccine has triggered a quick immune response. The news comes hot off the heels of breakthroughs by Pfizer and Moderna. Sao Paolo, the Brazilian state ravaged by the Covid pandemic, has ordered 46 million doses. President Jair Bolsonaro, who himself has recovered from…
China, Australia, Japan and 12 other nations in the Asia-Pacific region have signed a free trade deal worth 30% of the world’s economic output and encompassing more than a quarter of the globe’s population, making it the largest of its kind in history. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was eight years in the making.…
Driverless car and AI firm, Pony.ai, has reached a $5.3 billion evaluation after it raised $267 million in a new round of funding. The Chinese start-up, which says it has raised more than $1 billion in its four-year existence, said the financial injection would go into research and development. Pony.ai is the brainchild of Chinese…
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A team of Chinese engineers has managed to ‘walk’ an 85-year-old Shanghai building to safety and a new home, using robotic legs. The nearly century-old education centre, in Shanghai’s eastern Huangpu district, was successfully lifted off its concrete foundations, hoisted on to a network of robotic legs – known as the ‘walking machine’, and moved…