One-line news
May 2, 2017 Category One-line news, Weekly
- China’s installed wind power capacity continued to grow in the first quarter of this year, according to the National Energy Administration (NEA). China had 151 million kilowatts of installed wind power capacity at the end of the first quarter, up 13% year-on-year.
- China’s push to convert coal into synthetic natural gas (SNG) could prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths a year, but possibly at the cost of emitting more greenhouse gases, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found. SNG produces far fewer harmful pollutants, but the use of SNG would increase carbon emissions.
- The social networking app WeChat is now increasingly used for workplace communications, even replacing e-mails. The annual WeChat user behavior report by Penguin Intelligence, a Tencent research arm, found that 87.7% of WeChat users use the app for daily work communication. Phones, text messages and fax machines were used by 59.5%, and email by 22.6%.
- There are now more than 43,000 cinema screens in China, more than in the United States, and 3,179 screens opened during the first three months of 2017 – an average of 36 screens per day at a time when box office takings are falling. The value of ticket sales for the first quarter of 2017 was CNY13.5 billion, a drop of 7% compared with the same period in 2016.
- China Telecom reported a 4.5% jump in net profit to CNY5.35 billion for the first quarter of the year thanks to a steady increase in the number of 4G users and a rise in mobile service revenues. China Telecom’s mobile subscribers grew 3% to 222 million in the first quarter, of which over 62% are 4G subscribers.
- China is willing to spend as much money as needed in its fight against air pollution, Premier Li Keqiang said. At an executive meeting of the State Council, Li spoke about how finding a solution to smog had become an “urgent” matter for people’s health and the quality of their lives. The Ministry of Finance raised the budget for curbing air pollution by 250% this year, to CNY40 million.
- A court in China jailed Ai Baojun, former Chairman of Baoshan Iron and Steel, who went on to become Vice Mayor of Shanghai, to 17 years for bribery and graft. He had used his positions to amass more than CNY40 million in assets from 2000 to 2014. Ai is the most senior official in Shanghai to be sentenced in the anti-corruption campaign.
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