China's apparent oil demand in 2015 grew 5.8% year on year to 11.11 million b/d, the fastest pace since 2011, despite the country's economy growing at the slowest rate since 1990, Platts calculations based on recently released official data ...
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China is the world's largest producer and exporter of rare-earths. These are elements which are critical to the manufacturing of high-tech products, including smartphones, wind turbines and car batteries, among other things. However, ...
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A slew of factors is persuading companies to expand abroad to access the global market Rising costs and steep anti-dumping duties in the United States and Europe, coupled with a desire to expand overseas, are increasingly driving major ...
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The world's stock markets are spiralling downwards. The U.S. equity market fell 10 percent last month. Investor terminology calls this a "correction" not a crash. But prospects don't look good. Big investors, banks and financial ...
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China's economy is going through a series of historic transitions, and recent short-term market volatility will prove temporary, experts attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2016 said on Thursday. The Chinese government ...
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China, to boost the PV industry under the 13th Five-year National Development Plan, has set a target installation capacity of 3.0GWp for model PV power stations to be set up in 2016, according to the government National Energy ...
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The Indian government has rolled out numerous large scaled LED bulb distribution projections across the nation, but not all Indian consumers are warming up to the low-priced bulbs, according to a report from The Deccan Herald. It has been ...
First-tier China-based PV module makers, viewing that cost for crystalline silicon solar cells has risen but they are unable to hike PV module prices, plan to reduce orders released to Taiwan- and China-based solar cell makers, according to ...
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China will continue to be a driver of global economy as it has sufficient investment opportunities and internal resources, a leading Chinese economist said Tuesday. "China will continue to grow economically and continue to be the main ...
China saw a record number of firms established in 2015 despite the slowing economy, official data showed. Chinese set up a total of 4.44 million companies last year, up 21.6 percent from a year ago, which means 12,000 new companies every ...
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According to IDC, 3D printer shipments in the China market reached over 34,000 units in 2014, and are expected to have reached 77,000 units in 2015, exhibiting a growth rate over 120%. This growth rate is largely driven by sales of desktop ...
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First-tier China-based PV module makers have been setting up PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) solar cell production lines to meet growing demand for high-efficiency PV modules in the China market, with an estimated total annual ...
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China has more than doubled its first round oil product export quotas to 20.93 million mt from a year ago to 27 refineries in 2016, industry sources told Platts Tuesday. It contrasted to the 9.75 million mt released for the same period ...
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Foreign investment in China reached a record 126 billion U.S. dollars in 2015, according to new official data. In the first 11 months of the year, China took in 114 billion U.S. dollars in non-financial investment, up 7.9 percent year on ...
Power supply shipments are expected to grow strongly beginning 2016 as demand for industrial power supplies starts growing rapidly and sales of consumer power supplies also start picking up. The growth is expected to help power supply ...
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