by Teuvo Tuomi | Mar 24, 2025 | China, Finland, Investment, News, Technology, Visions
Easpring is planning to construct a new plant to produce cathode active material, CAM, which is needed to produce lithium-ion batteries, in Kotka, Finland. The plant’s first-stage capacity will be 60,000 tonnes of cathode active material per year. The investment...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Mar 10, 2025 | AI, China, Digitalization, Economy, News, Technology
Chinese megacity Shenzhen aims at becoming the forefront of the global artificial intelligence and robotics industries. The city has rolled out three major action plans, which outline measures to accelerate its adoption of AI, strengthen its smart computing capacity...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 30, 2025 | China, Culture, Event, Lifestyle, News, Tourism, Travel
Chinese authorities expect a record 9 billion inter-regional trips during this year’s Spring Festival travel period, which began on 14 January and will continue until 22 February, an estimated 7% rise from last year’s Spring Festival. Almost 205 million...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 29, 2025 | China, AI, Innovation, Investment, News, Technology
China’s newest AI model, DeepSeek, has surged to the top of the free app download charts in the United States region of the Apple App Store, surpassing the once-dominant ChatGPT. It also secured the number one spot on the free app rankings in China. On 20 January,...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 19, 2025 | China, Culture, News, Social Media, Technology
American “TikTok refugees” have immigrated on popular Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, “Little Red Book”. Amid TikTok’s likely closure in the US within days, some of its American users have migrated to the Chinese Instagram-like social media app. The...
by Teuvo Tuomi | Jan 14, 2025 | China, Exports, Imports, News, Trade, Vietnam
The China Railway Group reports a sharp increase in freight transport on the China-Vietnam cross-border railway last year, marking an annual increase of 1,153%. Monthly freight volumes hit record highs in March, April, July, October, and November. Initially focusing...
