Chinese battery giant CATL announced an organizational restructuring last week, under which some decision-making power will be concentrated in the headquarters to improve efficiency.
Leading Chinese tech firm Alibaba announced it would donate 125 million yuan ($18.4 million) to equip more than 600,000 village clinics with two oximeters, basically achieving full coverage in rural areas.
Hangzhou-based tech giant Alibaba has launched a special campaign to provide free COVID-19 consultation services for rural areas, support the training of grassroots medical staff, and donate urgently needed medicines and medical devices to 22 underdeveloped counties across the country.
Hong Kong-listed Chinese battery manufacturer CALB has filed a lawsuit, suing its competitor CATL for alleged unfair competition by abusing patent rights for malicious rights protection and wanton slander.
In order to solve the problem of high battery costs and improve profit margins, many Chinese car companies have begun to directly enter the battery supply chain in various ways.
Alibaba-backed InTime Department Store and a cutting-edge brand "Super Plants" have jointly released a calendar for the new year that can be used to guide flower planting.
Chinese battery giant CATL's factory in Thuringia, Germany, has begun the mass production of lithium-ion battery cells as scheduled, which means that the company now has a local production and supply capacity for its European customers.
Shenzhen-based internet giant Tencent and 10 international and domestic partners, including Impact Hub Shanghai and Plug and Play China, have recently launched TanLIVE, a platform that aims to connect stakeholders of low-carbon technologies.
With the recent lifting of pandemic control policies in China, the number of infections has risen sharply. Chinese internet giant Tencent launched a "COVID-19 Pills Mutual Help Public Welfare Platform."
Denza, a joint venture between Chinese automaker BYD and Germany's Daimler AG, on December 16 reached a strategic partnership with the carbon neutrality laboratory under the Tencent Sustainable Social Value (SSV) unit.
Jackson He, the senior vice president of Baidu and general manager of the firm's Mobile Ecological Business Group, on December 17 participated in the China pavilion for the second phase of the COP15 to share the firm's innovative exploration and achievements in ecological protection.
Gotion Hi-Tech, a leading Chinese battery firm, signed an agreement on December 15 with Nuovo Plus, an energy solutions company under the Petroleum Authority of Thailand, involving the establishment of a joint venture called NV Gotion Co., Ltd.
GCL Perovskite, a perovskite solar module developer under GCL Technology Holdings Limited, a leading Chinese photovoltaic material manufacturer, announced on December 14 its securing of 500 million yuan ($72 million) in a B+ round of financing.
Tmall Supermarket, an Alibaba-owned grocery purchasing platform, unveiled its "carbon footprint" certification series of products this week at the first Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, China's Zhejiang Province.
Chinese tech leader Alibaba has helped thousands of people who have disabilities to find undifferentiated employment and live barrier-free in the past year, according to the annual report on helping those with special needs, jointly released by Alibaba and its philanthropy foundation.
REPT, a Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturer backed by leading nickel and stainless steel producer Tsingshan Holding Group, has submitted an application for an overseas public listing.
Beijing-based life services e-commerce platform, Meituan, had one of its subsidiaries invested in Huzhou Chaona New Energy, with a shareholding ratio of 10%.
Fluctuating supply and demand within China's lithium-ion battery industrial chain has attracted widespread attention recently. Production capacity now far exceeds demand, and some entities in the sector are seemingly pursuing blind expansion and hoarding.
On November 30, a Chinese research team published a paper entitled "A membrane-based seawater electron for hydrogen generation" in Nature, which has solved an important problem of hydrogen production by direct electrolysis of seawater.
