China Top Stories

The king of nickel is betting big on a green future in batteries

Tsingshan made numerous bold moves on its path to becoming the world’s largest nickel producer, but its new plan to supply carmakers with cheap, clean metal could be its biggest breakthrough yet.

Bloomberg News | March 15, 2021 | 8:22 am

VW plans to be battery juggernaut in $29 billion answer to Tesla

Company is stepping up its game to become the world’s…

Bloomberg News | March 15, 2021 | 7:54 am

Shanghai bourse studies overseas warehousing for bonded copper contract

The Shanghai International Energy Exchange bonded copper futures, which were…

Reuters | March 15, 2021 | 7:37 am

China’s copper imports likely to rise, may not be bullish signal: Russell

There are certainly still reasons to be optimistic on China’s…

Reuters | March 15, 2021 | 7:31 am

China Jan-Feb aluminum output rises on new capacity increase

Primary aluminum output in the world's biggest aluminum producer, was…

Reuters | March 15, 2021 | 7:24 am

Zijin goes after Aussie gold miner in overseas buying spree

The Chinese firm already mines gold next door to a Phoenix deposit.

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 22, 2015 | 3:22 am

Met-coal plumbs decade lows

Hobbled by too much supply and not enough demand, especially in China, the coal needed to produce steel has fallen to levels not seen since 2004.

Andrew Topf | June 21, 2015 | 4:30 pm

China’s energy demand may not increase until 2017

In this post I revisit the energy production and consumption data for China looking for clues about the future direction of global energy markets.

Oilprice.com | June 21, 2015 | 1:34 pm

The rare earth challenge

While not especially rare and not really earths, there is no doubting the difficulties in mining and processing the rare earth group of metals, or their importance to the global economy.

CSIRO | June 18, 2015 | 6:01 am

Iron ore price rally just gave miners ‘false hope’

Iron ore price declines to resume as Shanghai rebar drops to record low Wednesday with bears calling rally just a blip before prices retreat to $40s again.

Frik Els | June 17, 2015 | 5:14 pm

INFOGRAPHIC: Every Chinese overseas investment over $100m visualized

Showing over 1,250 attempted transactions, this list includes both successful and failed attempts in order to visualize the ebb and flow of Chinese investments up until mid-2014.

Visual Capitalist | June 17, 2015 | 9:04 am

Congo mulls suspending Ivanhoe’s Kamoa stake sale to Zijin

It also plans to review the legal status of the joint venture, while it negotiates with Ivanhoe to raise its stake to 20% from the current 5% it holds.

Cecilia Jamasmie | June 17, 2015 | 3:08 am