Chinese chipmaker YMTC plans new factories amid heightened US-Sino trade tensions, sources sayChina has been keen to wean itself from foreign technologies such as semiconductors - a critical sector that the U.S. has sought to limit C...
14 Apr, 2026, 12.13 PM IST
China plans to use water as a weapon: ReportMoreover, China is also planning to build an airport near this dam to assist the Chinese Air force movement alongside.With the occupation o...
01 Feb, 2023, 12.10 PM IST
China summons chip firms for emergency talks after US curbsThe Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has summoned executives from firms including Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. and superc...
22 Oct, 2022, 12.27 AM IST
China summons chip firms for emergency talks after US curbsThe Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has summoned executives from firms including Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. and superc...
20 Oct, 2022, 02.01 PM IST
After long drought, China plots ambitious water infrastructure pushThe prolonged drought in southwest China has exposed the vulnerability of hydropower-dependent regions such as Sichuan to falling water lev...
01 Sep, 2022, 11.29 AM IST
China’s power crisis could reach a Himalayan scaleBuilt through the 2000s just as China’s rise was at its most headlong, the world’s largest power station can generate 22.5 gigawatts, equiv...
24 Aug, 2022, 05.36 AM IST
Metro stations in China dim their lights to save electricityChengdu (China)Metro stations in Sichuan province's capital city Chengdu have dimmed their lights to save electricity, leaving some travell...
18 Aug, 2022, 05.29 PM IST
Yangtze drought could last until Sept; China races to protect harvestsRainfall in the Yangtze basin has been around 45% lower than normal since July, and high temperatures are likely to persist for at least an...
18 Aug, 2022, 10.14 AM IST
China turns on world's second-biggest hydropower damPlans call for the 289-meter-tall (954-foot-tall) Baihetan Dam to have 16 generating units with a capacity of 1 million kilowatts each. Tha...
28 Jun, 2021, 02.16 PM IST
China urges its firms to list in London in renewed global push: SourcesThe Shanghai-London Stock Connect scheme, which began operating last year, aims to build links between Britain and China.
19 May, 2020, 12.58 PM IST
China puts final death toll from capsized cruise ship at 442China put the final death toll from a cruise ship that capsized in the Yangtze river at 442, as all the missing bodies were recovered two w...
13 Jun, 2015, 11.25 PM IST
China's Three Gorges Power Plant claims new world record for hydropower generationWith a much smaller capacity, Brazil's Itaipu hydroelectric plant had long been the champion of world hydropower generation.
02 Jan, 2015, 01.21 PM IST
China begins building largest hydropower station in TibetThe first generator is expected to come into service at the end of 2021 and the entire station is to be completed in 2023
06 Oct, 2014, 10.25 PM IST
China unveils $284 billion plan to curb pollutionChina today unveiled a multi-billion dollar plan to tackle air pollution in the country with a multi pronged strategy.
12 Sep, 2013, 08.21 PM IST
- China's Three Gorges dam generates record power
The Three Gorges power plant generated a record 98.1 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2012, according to an official announcement.
08 Jan, 2013, 08.34 PM IST
- A trip to Yangtze river cruise
On a cruise down the famous river, ET correspondent sees that time is running out for a swathe of Chinese history as the Three Gorges Dam n...
09 Oct, 2008, 01.55 AM IST
'Himalayan tragedy awaits India, China'Lester Brown, a leading environmental scientist, has warned that shrinking Himalayan glaciers could eventually lead to "politically unmanag...
21 Mar, 2008, 03.20 AM IST