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China energy security

China energy security
China must ensure an adequate supply of energy, including coal, gas and crude oil, to support its 1.4 billion people. According to the 14th five-year plan for 2021-25, China must supply more of its own energy needs by 2025, while advocating for larger domestic oil and gas production and clean energy cooperation with other countries, including the United States.
The Imperial Oil refinery in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, on September 2. Photo: Reuters
China-Canada relations

Canada sells more oil and gas to China as relations with US sour

China’s imports of Russian energy products also rise sharply as Beijing diversifies its energy supplies.

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Mainland China

China’s crude imports are rising again. What will that mean for oil prices?

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Banking & finance

Fed rate hike risks worsening China’s economic divide

China trade

How Canada’s Trump headache is fuelling a China trade boom

Exports to China hit their highest first-half level in decades as Ottawa looks to reduce dependence on its southern neighbour.

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Shipping containers are seen in the Port of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, on August 23. Photo: AFP
Mainland China

China’s oil demand could falter as Saudi pipeline shutdown raises costs

Supply relatively insulated in short term, but refiners could cut run rates amid rising crude prices, freight costs, analysts say.

Yuan

Open Questions | Private equity’s Fang Fenglei on investing in China

Veteran investor considers China’s economic strengths, assets that appeal, future yuan appreciation and policymakers’ ability to solve problems.

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Mainland China

In Focus | Chinese coal mine gets hi-tech, green makeover with autonomous electric trucks

The deployment of self-driving vehicles, now past the pilot stage, has improved safety, efficiency and operating costs, mine manager says.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
China-Russia relations

Power of Siberia 2 pipeline talks stall over China-Russia price dispute: sources

Moscow-Beijing negotiations over pipeline have halted as ‘no progress’ made on bridging a big gas price gap, sources say.

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Belt and Road 2026

Why Central Asia is turning to China for its renewable energy revolution

The Belt and Road Initiative, with its massive investments in wind, solar and nuclear power, is quietly reshaping the region’s energy future.

Commodities

Oil prices near US$100 a barrel as Saudi oil facility attack raises supply risk

Geopolitical tensions and strikes on energy infrastructure are tightening supply expectations, threatening to push oil higher and curb China’s appetite for imports.

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The price of diesel is displayed at a petrol station in New York on Friday. The national average price of retail diesel hit a record high on Thursday as the cost of crude oil rebounded. Photo: Xinhua
China-Africa relations

How China’s green tech is undercutting US energy strategy in Africa

Record photovoltaic additions and major infrastructure deals allow developing nations to bypass fossil fuel price shocks.

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The De Aar wind power project in South Africa is among renewable energy projects across Africa involving China, including hydroelectric, wind and solar. Photo: Xinhua
US, Israel war on Iran

Why are fuel and petrochemical prices rising far faster than crude?

Global refined-product exports were down 25 per cent year on year in August, with losses concentrated in Russia and the Persian Gulf, analysts say.

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US-Venezuela conflict

‘Direct hit’: China dealt blow as US-backed firm takes over Venezuelan oilfields

Venezuela was the biggest recipient of China’s lending to Latin America, and Beijing is unlikely to recover debts, one analyst says.

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Solar energy

Beyond coal: China’s installed solar power capacity crosses historic threshold

Beijing says the transition marks a turning point but integrating the 31.5 per cent share still requires a multi-trillion-yuan push to forge a modern grid.

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Solar panels on a hillside at an agricultural photovoltaic power station in Qianxi city, southwestern China’s Guizhou province, on August 17. Photo: AFP
PetroChina

PetroChina’s first-half profit jumps 22% despite Iran war oil supply crunch

As LNG and EV adoption bite into traditional fuel sales, higher global crude prices help the state-backed giant deliver strong earnings.

The PetroChina logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. Photo: Shutterstock
Belt and Road Initiative

In Focus | Can Beijing’s gateway plan for Tibet survive geopolitics and natural disasters?

Beijing hopes trade will stabilise Tibet, but friction with India and the looming Dalai Lama succession are hampering its efforts.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Uncertainty over CATL lithium mine restart could fuel price volatility: analysts

The latest hold-up has yet to meaningfully roil lithium carbonate prices but the impact may be felt during the fourth-quarter.

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Science

Why climate extremes will not stop expansion of China’s nuclear power industry

Technological advances alongside planning for increasingly severe weather events are more likely to help the rapidly growing sector.

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Falling river levels and rising water temperatures have disrupted nuclear power generation across Europe, but China’s industry is expected to be more resilient. Photo: EPA
Stocks

China’s CNOOC rakes in record first-half profit on high oil prices amid Iran war

China’s largest offshore oil and gas producer saw net profits jump over 23 per cent in the first half amid turbulence in the Middle East.

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Wind energy

China sends airborne wind turbine up 4,000m to generate power

The craft, developed by a Chinese start-up, uses winds at high altitude to produce electricity.

CATL

CATL debuts e-commerce hub for direct sales to small buyers as rivalry sharpens

The platform allows for direct online sales to smaller energy storage buyers.

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People visit the booth of battery giant CATL during the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on July 16, 2025. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

In Focus | Once known for livestock, a rural Chinese city pivots to AI super units

Fueled by cheap wind power and a cool climate, Inner Mongolia’s Ulanqab is turning energy produced in its pastureland into power for the AI boom.

Photo: Dennis Yip
European Union

In Focus | China, the US and EU are taking separate climate paths – but are any dead ends?

As Beijing enacts a state-led approach to climate adaptation, Washington leans on the private sector and Brussels tries to chart a middle way.

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Wind energy

In China first, project breathes new life into ageing wind turbines

State-owned recycling group says work has begun on remanufacturing 25 turbines in Gansu province.

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Mongolia

Mongolia apologises after China raises security fear over protesters at oil camp

Beijing’s embassy demands stronger protections for personnel following camp raid at Kherlen Tohoi oil block.

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China has complained that Mongolian protesters went to the Kherlen Tohoi XXVIII oil exploration area on August 14 and tried to halt exploration work. A Mongolian official has apologised to China. Photo: QQ.com
Energy

China eyes peak oil demand by 2030 amid pipeline increase, smart rig tech plan

Beijing’s peak-oil plan pairs an expansion of China’s network of pipelines with 15-km-deep drilling rigs.

A liquified natural gas storage tank at Rudong port in Nantong, Jiangsu province. Photo: Reuters/File photo
Mainland China

China’s five-year plan for its oil and gas sector

Beijing has set a target of raising domestic oil and gas supply by 5 per cent by 2030 as part of its broader push for energy security.

War and conflict

Opinion | Chokepoints and the cost of cutting off access

The most dangerous chokepoint may not be the narrowest strait or rarest tech but where the final decision rests with the fewest people.

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