China’s Belt and Road Initiative has its first hypercar – loosely defined as the most superior of cars and a step up from a supercar. Silk EV, a new automotive startup in Italy, recently announced it would be collaborating with China’s oldest car maker, First Automotive Works (FAW), to create the S9 – an all-electric…
Six and a half months after it left Earth’s gravitational pull, China’s Tianwen-1 Mars mission craft has successfully entered into Mars’s orbit, a Chinese first and the planet’s second visitor this week. The Tianwen craft, which consists of a lander, rover, and orbiter, will remain in a stable orbit until it makes contact later this…
China’s medical products regulator has approved another Covid-19 vaccine for general public use, said Beijing-based medical firm, Sinovac Biotech. The medical research firm’s two-jab vaccine received approval from China’s Medical Products Association after two-month late-stage clinical international trials concluded. Positive immune responses to the firm’s vaccine were observed in phase one and in two…
Chinese researchers have developed a way to send uncrackable “quantum keys” between ground stations and low-orbit satellites, which is considered one of the most significant breakthroughs in the field. In 2018, researchers from the University of Science and Technology in China (UTSC) devised a way to share quantum keys in secret between a series of…
A magnetic levitation – or maglev – bullet train prototype which could carry passengers across China almost as fast as a commercial aircraft was unveiled this month. Researchers from China’s Southwestern Jiaotong University unveiled the prototype on a 165m custom-built section of rail in China’s Chengdu region in early January. The maglev train, designed to…
Polestar’s 2020 electric vehicle concept car is to go into mass production in a carbon-neutral factory in China, according to the electric vehicle firm. The Polestar Precept made its debut earlier this year as a concept car with an emphasis on sustainability and cutting-edge tech instead of traditional performance figures and specifications. The Geely-owned Volvo…
Xi Jinping, leader of the Chinese Communist Party and president of China, has pledged that his nation will become carbon neutral by 2060. He called for a “green revolution” and said China would scale up its targets under the Paris Climate Accord, in an address to the United Nations Annual General Assembly (UNGA) in New…
Global wind farm capacity is likely to grow nearly 800% by the end of 2030 – with China at the head of the pack, according to two recent reports. A report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) indicates stronger than originally forecasted growth for the sector. The Energy Council had to review its latest…
China is host to the most valuable startups on the planet in the annual Hurun Global Unicorn Index from the Hurun Research Institute. In a year largely interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, China, the world’s second-largest economy, has 227 unicorns as of March this year – around 35% of the world’s unicorns. A unicorn is…
Hengli Petrochemical, one of China’s largest privately-owned companies, has announced a move to turn coal into fabric. The $20 billion undertaking will produce polyester yarn, used in everything from clothing to packaging and bottling, from China’s vast coal reserves. In June, the chemical giant said it would make the multi-billion dollar transition into the coal-to-chemical…