If a market doesn’t exist for your product, then go ahead and make one. That seems to be the hidden message in a new announcement from Guodian, one of China’s major power producers, which has signed an interesting agreement with Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), a leading US lender, to promote wind power development in the United States. (company announcement) Details in this announcement are thin, but the underlying message is clear: in the absence of local efforts to install more solar and wind power in North America and Europe, China is willing to step in and help to build new green energy plants in these markets to help and support its large stable of wind and solar equipment makers, who are now going through one of their industry’s worst-ever downturns. Of course, this kind of Beijing-backed effort to develop clean energy overseas is hardly selfless, and I have no doubt that the vast majority of orders for wind turbines and other equipment resulting from this Guodian-Wells Fargo tie-up will go to leading Chinese equipment makers like Xinjiiang Goldwind (HKEx: 2208) and Ming Yang Wind Power (NYSE: MY). You have to applaud the Chinese for their approach in this case, as attractive tariffs still exist in the West to make wind power a profitable endeavor. It’s just the degree of profitability that has prevented more building of wind and solar plants — something China will try to address by building the plants by itself using its power generating companies as its agents. If this tie-up works, look for more similar arrangements between Western banks and other organizations and Chinese power producers going forward, which will benefit both China’s wind and solar energy equipment makers.
Bottom line: The new tie-up between a major Chinese power producer and US lender Wells Fargo to build US wind power could be a template for China’s future promotion of green energy in the West
如果你的产品没有市场,那麽赶紧创造一个。这似乎是中国主要发电商——国电新声明中的潜藏含义。国电与美国富国银行(Wells Fargo)<WFC.N>签署了一份有趣的协议,旨在在美国推广风电开发。声明中的细节内容很少,但潜在信息却很明确:在北美和欧洲各国不愿安装更多太阳能和风力发电设备时,中国愿插手并帮助这些市场修建新的绿色能源发电厂,从而间接帮助并支持其风力和太阳能设备制造商度过该行业最严峻的衰退之一。当然,这种中国政府支持的开发海外清洁能源的努力绝非无私之举,无疑,国电和富国的合作会带来大量设备订单,其中绝大多数订单将落入新疆金风科技<2208. HK>、明阳风电<MY.N>等中国设备制造商手中。你不得不为中国人在此案中的手腕拍手称道,因西方国家依然存在很具诱惑力的优惠税率,使风电成为一个有利可图的行业。正是盈利程度才是阻碍修建更多风力和太阳能发电厂的原因。这也是中国试图解决的一个问题,中国采取的方式是让国内发电企业作为代理,自行修建发电厂。如果国电和富国的这种合作行之有效,那麽西方银行和其他机构与中国电力供应商之间的类似协议还会有更多,且中国的风力和太阳能设备生产商也会从中受益。
一句话:国电和富国在美国修建风电厂的新合作或许成为中国未来向西方推广绿色能源的一个模板。.
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Anyone who doubts that China Unicom (HKEx: 762; NYSE: CHU) is rapidly posing a serious challenge to dominant mobile carrier China Mobile (HKEx: 941; NYSE: CHL) should look no further than the latest reports of a newly announced tie-up between Unicom and Sina (Nasdaq: SINA). (
n, operates a 3G mobile Internet system based on the world’s most popular standard, which is supported by plenty of well-proven handsets, including Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone, and efficient infrastructure networking equipment. Sina’s new tie-up, though probably not exclusive, marks a huge affirmation that China’s top Internet content provider sees Unicom as the leading the mobile Internet in China for at least the next couple of years. If its guess is correct, and I think there’s a good chance it will be, we should see Unicom steadily take share from China Mobile in the 3G space, and perhaps even surpass it by the end of next year.
which caused Yahoo’s shares to drop sharply when the news got out. Ma justified the move saying that China was preparing to issue its first round of licenses for domestic online payment companies, and that Alipay might not qualify for a license due to its foreign ownership. According to the reports, Yahoo and Softbank both thought their stakes in Alibaba wouldn’t prevent Alipay from getting a license, and I’m increasingly convinced that this argument has merit. What Ma hasn’t said in all this is that China is preparing to also license foreign companies to provide domestic online payment services later this summer, so the whole debate over domestic versus foreign control of such companies does seem to be a moot point. In that light, Ma’s defensive posture seems much more understandable and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Alipay return to Alibaba Group as soon as late this year. In the process, Alibaba may also have to pay Yahoo millions of dollars to help it settle a class-action shareholder lawsuit against it related to this mess.
You certainly have to give Huawei Technologies credit for taking a long-term approach to cracking the difficult but lucrative US market. After being rejected twice in previous US initiatives, one to buy former rival and joint venture partner 3Com and another to buy a small firm called 3Leaf (
There are two reports out today that indicate Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) ongoing dispute with Beijing over its China mapping service may be close to resolution. In the more significant of the two, Chinese media are saying that Google is in talks with a Chinese partner about setting up a joint venture that would officially own and operate its China mapping service, though no deal has been struck yet. (
In what should really come as a surprise to no one, newly released data is showing that new lending by Chinese banks tumbled 14 percent percent in May, even as economists were expecting a slight rise, as part of Beijing’s efforts to slow its racing economy and cool the overheated real estate sector. (
will be any different, especially seeing as Xunlei was already earning money in 2009, posting a profit that year of $5.5 million — a sharp contrast to other video sharing sites like Youku (NYSE: YOKU) and Tudou, which are both still losing money. This selective leaking of information designed to create buzz is clearly in response to the recent cooling in market sentiment towards Chinese Web companies, that’s seen the likes of children’s site Taomee (Nasdaq: TAOM) and Jiayuan (Nasdaq: DATE) sink in their recent debuts. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of these strategic positive leaks coming out in the next week, as the spinmasters behind Xunlei try their best for a positive debut despite the negative market sentiment.
If it works, the big push will drop China’s dependence on foreign-supplied ore to 42 percent of its needs by 2015, from 63 percent last year, experts say. So, will it work? My answer is an unqualified “yes”, which will no doubt undermine the big global giants. In this case, China has plenty of domestic resources it can use to reach this goal, and it’s shown in the past that things like self-reliance in key areas like steel outweigh any economic issues like the high cost of achieving such self-reliance. Furthermore, it shouldn’t face any resistance from either foreign or its own provincial governments, as the former can hardly complain about this kind of domestic plan while the latter group will surely welcome such new investment in their provinces.