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JULY 29, 2020

Large improvements of air quality in China during the lockdown have been widely reported, but new research shows that two pollutants harmful to human health—fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and ozone—were only slightly reduced. µm—had a modest reduction of 11% across China, and was not reduced in north-east China.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

Daimler Greater China and Beijing’s Tsinghua University have signed a contract to continue and further to expand their research cooperation begun in 2012 for another 3 years. The expanded research collaboration with Tsinghua University again shows Daimler’s clear commitment to R&D activities in China.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Average annual percentage of black carbon pollution related to Chinese exports. China is responsible for only a small percentage of the annual pollution in the US, but powerful global winds known as “westerlies” can push airborne chemicals across the ocean in days, particularly during the spring, causing dangerous spikes in contaminants.

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MARCH 14, 2014

(EM), developer of opposed-piston opposed-cylinder (opoc) engine technology, has established a joint research and development center together with Hunan University (HNU) in Changsha to further develop and adapt their technology for the Chinese market. Earlier post.). —Amit Soman, EM’s president and chief operating officer.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Now, researchers in China report in an open-access paper in Environmental Science & Technology Letters that particles with diameters less than 1 ?m Pooled associations between size-fractioned PM and cause-specific mortality in 65 cities in China. m in diameter (PM 2.5 ). g/m 3 increase in two-day moving average PM 1. 9b00735.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Under this agreement, the South Korean automaker and its Chinese counterpart expect to strengthen their influence in the hydrogen ecosystem while accelerating the advent of a Hydrogen Society. The fund aims to attract investments from leading venture capital firms based in China, Europe, and the US.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

The new app will be based on “Tuban Xiong”, an app which has already been successfully introduced to the Chinese market by Mercedes-Benz in 2018 and offers several functions especially aiming at increasing travel safety such as: Location Sharing, Trip Sharing, SOS-Call, Geo-Fencing, Bodyguard Service, Fake Call etc.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) announced the first research grants from the EPIC-UCAS Joint Center for Energy Policy Research in China.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

—co-author Guojun He, research director at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago in China (EPIC China) and a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The unequal deployment of the regulations led to significant economic losses in China.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Commerce Department issued new rules that clamped down on the export of certain advanced chips—which have military or AI applications—to Chinese customers. China has yet to respond—but Beijing has multiple options in their arsenal. has blocked chip sales to individual Chinese customers. It’s unlikely, experts say, that the U.S.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

Airbus and Tsinghua University have formed a partnership to complete a sustainability analysis of Chinese feedstocks, and to evaluate how best to support the development of a value chain to speed up the commercialization of aviation bio-fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In China, people breathe ozone-laden air two to six times more often than people in the United States, Europe, Japan, or South Korea, according to a new international study published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters. For China, sites in 74 major cities with continuous observations from 2013?2017 2017 for one ozone metric.

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JULY 1, 2020

A new study finds that automated pollution monitors in China led to more accurate readings and that citizens used this information to protect themselves better against the harms of air pollution. Less than a decade ago, not only was air pollution a recognized problem in China, but many didn’t trust the data being reported by local officials.

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MAY 20, 2016

Nissan and Tsinghua University have a long history of cooperation. Nissan and Tsinghua University have a long history of cooperation. With the new program, Nissan hopes to better implement intelligent mobility based on a careful study of Chinese road networks. The new agreement will elevate their cooperation to the next level.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Xinhua reports that China’s State Administration of Grain (SAG) said that China will expand production and consumption of bioethanol fuel this year as the country seeks more channels to use corn and grain stockpiles. China’s end-of-year corn stock estimates (2017/2018 values forecasted). Source: USDA FAS. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 2, 2013

The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and Sichuan University in China will establish a joint engineering program to educate undergraduate students and foster collaborative research. The Sichuan University Pittsburgh Institute, as it will be named, expects to enroll its first class in the fall of 2014.

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JULY 30, 2012

The University of Leeds (UK) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have partnered to create a joint research institute to develop next generation energy storage systems, with a focus on thermal- and mechanical-based energy storage systems.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Chinese tech giant Baidu opened a 2.5-acre China's self-driving vehicle market is moving faster than that of the United States thanks to government regulatory support. This is still the only fully driverless RoboTaxi operation in China until today," said Jewel Z. Li, AutoX's chief operating officer.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

XNGP is now available unlimitedly on all roads, everywhere in China. XPeng Motors ($XPEV) currently operates as one of China’s big hitters in EVs. When the ADAS feature fully launched in March 2023, XPeng heralded it as “the most advanced and capable in China.” Seeing it in action, it’s hard to disagree. Watch out, Tesla.

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MARCH 16, 2024

China, for one, is expected to meet its own 2030 EV adoption target: 40 percent of vehicles sold. By decade’s end, China is expected to be selling only EVs in regions like the island province of Hainan. According to the WRI’s analysis, above, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and China are the leading EV adopters after Norway.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Volvo Car Group, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Volvo Group, the Chinese Ministry of Transport’s Research Institute of Highway and Tongji University in Shanghai have launched the China-Sweden Research Centre for Traffic Safety in Beijing, China.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

A joint research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators have developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The study is the first to document the health and economic benefits of policies to reduce the burden of air pollution in a highly polluted area of China, and provides a model to measure how policies to improve air quality can protect human health. Results appear in an open access paper in the journal Environment International.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of China’s biggest energy companies and Airbus are developing and promoting renewable aviation fuel production for regular commercial use in China. Earlier post.). —DAI Houliang, SVP of Sinopec. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 20, 2016

Developed entirely in China, it is operated by the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi (NSCC-Wuxi). The Sunway TaihuLight has already provided computational support to research universities and institutes in China, such as Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the First Institute of Oceanography.

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JULY 6, 2020

While Didi is the first ride-hailing company to roll out a robotaxi service in Shanghai, a few companies launched similar services in other Chinese cities earlier this year. The governments of other Chinese metropolises, including Guangzhou and Chongqing in the south of the country, have greenlighted open-road testing for autonomous cars.

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OCTOBER 16, 2016

Frontt Capital Management Ltd, a Shenzhen-based investment firm focused on developing the intelligent vehicle industry in China, is making a $27-million investment to advance autonomous, connected vehicles and robotic technologies with the University of Michigan, along with industry and government partners.

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JUNE 24, 2013

As part of an ongoing collaboration, seven joint research teams from the University of Michigan (U-M) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have won funding for research projects that explore the potential of nanotechnology in energy and biomedical applications.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On 3 January 2019 , the Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-4 descended toward the moon. China's space program , long trailing in the footsteps of the U.S. The landing also prefigured grander Chinese lunar ambitions. and Soviet (now Russian) programs, had registered an international first. ISRU, in this case using the.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Results from a study by a team from Carnegie Mellon University, Ford and Drexel University suggest that Chinese consumers are more receptive to adopting battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) than their American counterparts, regardless of subsidies. The study is published in the journal Transportation Research Part A.

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JULY 17, 2017

Exposure to ozone, long associated with impaired lung function, is also connected to health changes that can cause cardiovascular disease such as heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke, according to a new study of Chinese adults. The team studied 89 healthy adults living in Changsha City, China, for one year. 2017.2842.

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APRIL 22, 2014

has entered into an agreement with China’s Tsinghua University to establish a new joint research laboratory focused on creating disruptive innovations for future vehicles. Harman currently employs about 2,500 people in China, and maintains R&D and manufacturing facilities in Shanghai, Suzhou, Shenzhen, and Dandong.

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OCTOBER 30, 2010

Audi has launched a partnership with Tongji University in Shanghai (TUS) centered on research, instruction and services dealing with electromobility. Audi has been cooperating with Tongji University Shanghai since January. Audi has been represented in the Chinese market for 22 years now, and with great success.

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JULY 10, 2018

The Chinese EV battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. CATL) is building its first plant outside of China in Thuringia, Germany. Chinese auto and vehicle makers: BAIC, SAIC, Geely, Changan, GAC, Great Wall, DFM, NIO, Yutong Bus, Zhongtong Bus, King Long Motor, CRRC. GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. The collaboration is intended to help expand the global market for zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The University of Michigan is entering two separate agreements with Chinese institutions targeting automated and connected vehicles. This agreement puts in place measures that U-M and Frontt agreed to in a memorandum of understanding signed last month in China. It is located in Chongqing in Southwest China. Second, a $2.5-million

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JULY 13, 2023

The Chinese are building new car factories in abandoned US car factories in Thailand and Brazil now But with the anti Chinese sentiment in the US right now I am guessing it would be risky for a Chinese company to build a factory in the US. @Wayne Lewis In reply to Wayne Lewis.

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