中国扩大在南极的活动与关注范围
2025-12-24
| China has drafted a law covering its governance and interests in Antarctica, Xinhua reported. It has been forwarded to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for review. Antarctica, the last of Earth's great untapped regions, is the focus of global rivalry to stake out territory, especially in mineral rights. China's new law will broaden China's interests from science to tourism, shipping and fishing activities. "The legislation will help better coordinate, manage and regulate Antarctic-related activities and provide strong legal support for China's participation in global Antarctic governance," Xinhua said. China sent its first scientific expedition to the frozen continent in 1983 and now operates five stations there. It is a signatory of an international protocol protecting Antarctica's fragile environment, which is a key factor in determining global climate. | |
| 来源: Shanghai Daily |
日本发生核污染水泄漏
2025-12-24
| Water containing radioactive substances leaked at the decommissioning site of the Fugen nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture in central Japan on Tuesday. According to Hokuriku Broadcasting, tritium levels increased during dismantling work at an auxiliary building. The leakage was found one day after Japanese authorities approved the restart of the world's biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat idle since the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in 2011. The decision, contentious with the public, allows Tokyo Electric Power to restart one of seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata prefecture about 320 kilometers north of Tokyo. | |
| 来源: Shanghai Daily |
窃贼洗劫京东在巴黎的仓库
2025-12-24
| Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com said a warehouse it operates in Paris was burglarized, with over 50,000 digital devices stolen, including mobile phones, laptops and tablets valued at 37 million euros (US$44 million). French police said the thieves disabled the warehouse's surveillance cameras and alarm system. JD has been expanding into European markets. It has Ochama-brand automated warehouses in France, the Netherlands and Poland. | |
| 来源: Shanghai Daily |
日本批准重启最大核电站
2025-12-23
| Japanese authorities approved the restart of the world's biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat idle since the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in 2011. Many local residents disapprove of plans to allow Tokyo Electric Power to restart one of seven reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata prefecture. The powerful earthquake and tsunami that trigged a meltdown at the Fukushima plant remain fresh in the public mind, and the nation's regulators have taken a slow approach in restarting 14 of 33 nuclear reactors that remain operable. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, which has a combined capacity of about 8,200 megawatts, is located about 320 kilometers north of Tokyo on the island of Honshu. | |
| 来源: Shanghai Daily |
中国指责美国违反国际法
2025-12-23
| China called the US seizure of another oil tanker off Venezuela's coast a serious violation of international law. Foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told a daily press briefing that China opposes all "unilateral and illegal" sanctions imposed on shipping. The US Coast Guard intercepted a second crude tanker, which was bound for China, in open waters of the Caribbean over the weekend after President Donald Trump announced a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. Washington claimed the tanker was operating under a "false flag." | |
| 来源: Shanghai Daily |
黄金价格飙升至历史新高
2025-12-23
| Gold rose more than 2 percent to a record in New York on Monday, as investors sought a safe haven from US-Venezuela tensions and persistent concerns about a bubble in AI investment. Silver also touched an all-time peak. Spot gold was at US$4,434 in late trading. | |
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中国寻求结束柬埔寨与泰国之间的敌对行动
2025-12-22
| China has sent an envoy to Southeast Asia to try to de-escalate renewed clashes between Cambodia and Thailand over a longstanding border dispute. Deng Xijun, special envoy for Asian affairs, said China will continue to "play a constructive role in facilitating a peaceful settlement" of the dispute, China's foreign ministry said in a statement. Washington, too, has been trying to engineer a return to ceasefire after the one US President Donald Trump helped broker in October collapsed. About 60 people have died and more than half a million have been displaced since the two nations resumed hostilities several weeks ago. | |
| 来源: Shanghai Daily |
中国发布网络电商新规
2025-12-22
| China released new rules on Saturday to regulate pricing practices of Internet platforms, requiring transparency on pricing practices of website operators and merchants. The rules also give vendors the right to set pricing without interference from platform operators and prohibit operators from imposing unreasonable restrictions on them. To protect consumers, the regulations require clear price labeling and govern services such as password-free payments, automatic renewals and unsolicited deductions. The rules come into effect next April. | |
| 来源: Shanghai Daily |
AI 数据中心建设热潮丝毫未减
2025-12-22
| The worldwide investment frenzy to build data centers that house AI workloads will surge to a record of more than US$61 billion this year, S&P Global reported. The spending frenzy is continuing even as investors raise concerns that it's too much, too fast, and as energy experts warn about the high electricity loads needed to power the centers. Much AI infrastructure investment is financed by debt. S&P data show more than 100 financial transactions related to data centers in the first 11 months of the year, with debt doubling to US$182 billion, led by Meta, Google and Amazon. The majority of data center activity is in the US and Asia-Pacific region, with growth emerging among wealthy Gulf states seeking to be regional AI hubs.
S&P Global Market Intelligence analysts predict competition in AI will continue to fuel spending on data centers next year. An ING bank analysis agreed with that assessment, while acknowledging investor concerns about the ability of tech giants to turn massive spending into profits in the foreseeable future. In 2024, global data centers consumed an estimated 415 terawatt-hours of electricity – 1.5 percent of worldwide consumption, or roughly equivalent to total annual electricity use in France. The International Energy Agency estimates that demand could double by 2030, requiring the addition of generating capacity equivalent to the entire current grid of Germany. In terms of building new energy infrastructure, China is leading the US. |
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| 来源: Shanghai Daily |
中国的热带省份成为贸易天堂
2025-12-19
| China's tropical southern island province of Hainan embarks today on one of the nation's biggest trade liberalism policies in years as it becomes the nation's first duty-free port – a designation that once catapulted nearby Hong Kong into a trade and tourism hub. Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said the duty-trade zone presents a gateway to a "new era of opening up to the world." Hainan is one of China's smallest provinces but one of the world's largest duty-free zones by area. The zone, the size of Belgium, allows some 6,600 imported goods to enter with no tariff and streamlined customed procedures. Some restrictions remain, however, on movement of duty-free goods to the wider mainland market. Hainan-produced goods using duty-free materials will be allowed to enter the mainland market exempt from import tariffs if they add 30 percent in value by processing. Chi Fulin, president of the Hainan Institute for free-trade studies, said the duty-free zone is a pioneer in reforms that may eventually be implemented nationwide. | |
| 来源: Shanghai Daily |
