Nowadays, both companies and investors are spending more resources on ESG issues. A core question has emerged, that is, which ESG issues are financially material and why. This is important not only for companies to manage their resources properly, but also for investors who seek...
China held the annual National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), also known as the Two Sessions, from March 4 to March 11. On March 5, Premier Li Keqiang made the speech of the 2021 Government Work Report, which listed...
The Asset Management Association of China (AMAC) issued a self-evaluation report on green investment of fund managers on February 18, 2021. AMAC designed the dimensions and questions of a self-evaluation form and received valid samples from 37 mutual funds and 421 private funds, including 197...
Executive Summary EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) will become effective on March 10th, 2021. SFDR will also affect all asset management and advisory firms globally, including those in APAC and China who either: 1. have UCITS products;2. provide advisory services to EU asset managers or asset...
The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) announced on November 25, 2020, that they intended to merge into a new organization, called the Value Reporting Foundation (VRF). This move aims to offer investors and enterprises a unified and comprehensive...
Chinese short-video platform Kuaishou Technology [1024:HK] will debut at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on February 5. The expected initial public offering (IPO) will raise as much as USD5bn and make Kuaishou the first major short-video platform to go public. From its prospectus, currently, Kuaishou’s...
The recycling of batteries becomes an increasing topic amid the boom of China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) industry. The service life of automobile traction batteries is five to eight years, while these batteries cannot continue being used for cars when the energy capacity decays to...
The EU and China on December 30, 2020 made a consensus for the Comprehensive Agreement on Investments (CAI) between China and the EU. Following seven years of back and forth, this would replace 26 current agreements between 27 separate EU countries and China. Thus, such...
China Automotive Battery Innovation Alliance (CABIA), on January 13, published battery data for new energy vehicles (NEVs) for 2020. Last year, the cumulated production yield and sales volume of batteries were 83.4 gigawatts (GWh) and 65.9GWh, respectively, down 2.3% YoY and 12.9% YoY due to...
Earlier in January, a user reported that Meituan [0369:HK] requested her to return borrowed money, though she had never applied for any loans on the platform. After contacting Meituan’s customer service several times, the user was informed that the unsolicited loan, called Meituan Monthly Payment,...
In evaluating local ESG practices with other counties in the APAC region, this report will offer a high-level view of how the SSE and SZSE compares with other exchanges in ESG reporting requirements using data from the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative (UN SSE). The UN...
China’s plastic product output in 2019 reached 81.84m tons, up 3.91% YoY. The country occupied one fourth of global demand, and the volume of sales of plastic accumulated to 76.99m tons. China Plastics Processing Industry Association (CPPIA) estimated that the daily consumption of plastic bags...
Company Introduction Founded in 2011, Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) [300750:CH] now is one of the world’s leading companies for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries. The firm mainly focuses on R&D, production, and sales of batteries and energy storage systems for new energy vehicles (NEVs). CATL has major advantages...
Sinopharm’s inactivated vaccine is China’s first domestic COVID-19 vaccine On the last day of 2020, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of State Council announced that China National Pharmaceutical Group’s (AKA Sinopharm) inactivated COVID-19 vaccine obtained conditional marketing approval, a fast-tracked authorization process for treatments that...
China’s manufacturing industry, which involves multiple segments such as equipment, automobile, steel, etc, plays a vital role in the country’s economic development. Though the industry’s share in the nation’s GDP declined in recent years while that of the service sector has continued to rise, the...
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