https://www.scmp.com/rss/500101/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com As soaring global demand for lithium shows no signs of abating amid a global shift to battery-powered vehicles to reduce carbon emissions, the acceleration of lithium mining and extraction in China is of keen interest to industry representatives at the “two sessions” policy-setting gatherings in Beijing. Jiang Weiping, chairman of Tianqi Lithium, a leading lithium miner and products maker in China, suggested that the country expedite the extraction of lithium resources in southwestern Sichuan... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3169301/two-sessions-2022-china-urged-accelerate-mining-major-lithium?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3169301/two-sessions-2022-china-urged-accelerate-mining-major-lithium?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:30:21 +0000 Just days after Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez signed his country up for China’s Belt and Road Initiative during a high-profile trip to Beijing this month, the spot price of lithium metal in the Chinese market reached 2 million yuan (US$315,000) per tonne for the first time – more than four times what it cost a year ago. The two countries happen to be the world’s major players in the supply chain of the metal – an essential material used in electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Argentina is... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3167615/chinas-lithium-quest-fuelled-business-or-politics-and-how-far?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3167615/chinas-lithium-quest-fuelled-business-or-politics-and-how-far?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:00:28 +0000 The Simandou mountains, a 110km (68-mile) range deep in the interior of southeastern Guinea, is home to the world’s biggest untapped supply of high-grade iron ore, and China believes it could help cut its reliance on Australian imports amid trade tensions. The huge project, which holds an estimated 2.4 billion tonnes of iron ore graded at over 65.5 per cent, could diversify China’s supply chain but may not cut out Canberra completely, analysts say. Australia is the source of about 60 per cent of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3128209/stake-huge-iron-ore-mine-guinea-may-cut-chinas-dependence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3128209/stake-huge-iron-ore-mine-guinea-may-cut-chinas-dependence?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Apr 2021 10:00:12 +0000 It’s zero-dark thirty on the quiet waves near Jinshan, Taiwan. In a moment, all hell's gonna break loose. A deep, ear-splitting boom erupts. A blaze of fire and smoke explode into the night sky, and then the slow, stomach-turning stink of sulphur comes. Suddenly, a swarm of fish leap out of the water in all directions, like mice scurrying for their life, as fishermen hastily corral them in small mesh nets. The scene is, to say the least, pee-in-your-pants terrifying. This is the weird and... https://www.scmp.com/travel/inside-vivid-and-vanishing-world-fire-fishing/article/2162935?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/travel/inside-vivid-and-vanishing-world-fire-fishing/article/2162935?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:29:19 +0000