On March 5, SPI Solar announced strategic cooperation agreements with China Minsheng Bank, China Construction Bank and Suzhou Bank. The three banks will respectively provide credit lines of RMB 7 billion, RMB 2 billion and RMB 1 billion to support project financing, mergers and acquisitions as well as general funding needs. (MorningStar EN)
MIIT action plans calls for a 4 million ton reduction in coal consumption in 2015 and places particular focus on controlling harmful emissions in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Yangzte River Delta regions, with overarching sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, VOC and dust control targets. Test projects in these regions will be used to establish national targets. The…
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Written by Valerie Karplus, an Assistant Professor in the Global Economics and Management Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Director of the MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project, this paper examines China’s current approach to tackling air pollution and carbon mitigation nationally and argues that more incentives are needed if China hopes to meet…
The impact of environmental and institutional factors on Chinese green investments in Europe http://siepi.org/xiii-workshop-siepi/
A new scientific article published on Energy Policy Journal. The integration of Chinese and European renewable energy markets: The role of Chinese foreign direct investment by Ping Lv, Francesca Spigarelli In the renewable energy (RE) sectors, foreign direct investments are becoming an important mean of regional integration between China and Europe, as a result of…
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China just released preliminary 2014 gross domestic product (GDP) results. At 7.4% they missed their annual target (7.5%) by a mere breath – not a huge deal practically, but significant symbolically. More important is the composition of this growth. Consumption is playing a bigger role, as investment falls from former growth rates. Services activity continues…
With more than $50 billion worth of completed deals, Chinese firms continued to be an important driver of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2014. However, anticipation of a different growth model and more liberal outward investment policies have affected Chinese buying behavior and deal structures. This note reviews China’s global outbound M&A activity…