Much focus is on the visible boom in renewables and transport electrification as a driver of this peak. But a structural change is equally important: heavy industry output, responsible for over half of PRC emissions, is in decline due to the housing downturn. A shrinking population means fewer steel and cement emissions.
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14 Nov 2025
Five dams in the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, powering the Medog Hydropower Station, will generate 60 gigawatts of electricity. At full tilt, the complex will pump out 300 TWh a year—21 percent of the PRC's total hydropower output in 2024 and three times the might of the Three Gorges Dam.
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07 Nov 2025
Reforms to the PRC social credit system aim to address the persistent lack of access to finance and to strengthen the flow of goods, services, and capital within the domestic economy.
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31 Oct 2025
In rapidly evolving economies, a joined-up national market is taken for granted. Yet in the PRC, the past two decades+ of turbocharged growth are often credited to the very absence of such integration.
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29 Oct 2025
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how will the PRC decarbonise industry?
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are Tibet dams old-style stimulus?
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getting credit to a joined-up market
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promise of a joined-up market
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strategic and emerging industriescapacity cooperationWTOBRICSinstitutional voiceforeign policy rhetoricUNSCOecological civilisationenvironmental law...read more05 Nov 2025
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US/Canada...read more03 Nov 2025
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growth modelmoney supplybanking regulationhousing priceshousing stockNorth East AsiaUS/Canadapolitical trendssupervisionaccountability...read more03 Nov 2025
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energy transitiongaspetroleumgridelectricityenergy securitydual controlcarbon neutrality...read more02 Nov 2025
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Li KeqiangNational Innovation Centre of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (CICV) chief scientist
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Zeng MingNorthern China Electric Power University Energy and Internet Research Centre director
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