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A heritage map of Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song–Yuan China

China's ancient port of Quanzhou is anxiously waiting to get the World Heritage status. The proposal, "Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song–Yuan China," to get the c

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China Media Group to cover gymnastics and other events at Tokyo 2020

02:27 In addition to Chinese athletes chasing gold and glory, the country has also sent a top-notch broadcasting team to Tokyo. China Central Television (CCTV) is once

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Allocate banks $5M to open up venture capital fund access

The world of venture capital investing is a relatively small one, and relationship-based to boot. Family offices and accredited investors are eager to get involved in high-quality funds, but face hurd

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Xpeng: China's EV industry bracing for a knockout round

06:04 Thousands of electric vehicle (EV) makers have been springing up in the past few years in China, the world's largest market for this new energy trend. Competition

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Superpedestrian acquires Navmatic to detect and control unsafe e-scooter rider behavior

Electric scooter operator Superpedestrian has announced its acquisition of Navmatic, a startup that helps micromobility operators locate vehicles and correct their movements in real time.The companies

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Treasure of Nature: A 'natural paradise' featuring mudflats

China's Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf (Phase I) was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a natural site on July 5, 2

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Tianjin trades over 8.5m tonnes of carbon emissions allowances in H1

A coal-burning power plant. /CFP North China's Tianjin Municipality has seen transactions for a total of 8.56 million tonnes of carbon emissions allowances in the first

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CockroachDB, the database that just won’t die

There is an art to engineering, and sometimes engineering can transform art. For Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, those two worlds collided when they created the widely successful open-source graphic

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First global ESG index focusing on China market to be launched soon

03:47 China's International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF) published the world's first global stock index that measures performance of the companies listed on China'

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China's Xuelong 2 sets sail for new Arctic expedition

China's first self-developed research icebreaker Xuelong 2 displayed in Shanghai on National Maritime Day, July 11, 2020. /CFPChina's first self-developed research iceb

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Impact raises $150M at a $1.5B valuation as affiliate and other marketing partnerships come into their own

Affiliate marketing may have started as a kind of side hustle for bloggers and others that were making the majority of their revenues through advertising or other channels, but with the rise of influe

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Hong Kong's historic Kai Tak runway gets a revamp

03:05 It used to be famous as one of the world's most difficult places to land a plane. Now Hong Kong's former Kai Tak Airport runway has been transformed into a park t

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More Chinese women seek role in AI development

02:07 Many new products on display at the ongoing World Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference in Shanghai have been developed by women.AI unicorn SenseTime brought it

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The mystery of China's wandering elephants

12:45 Images of a herd of 15 Asian elephants trekking through China's southwestern Yunnan province have gone viral on social media and captured the imagination of the w

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President Xi's speech outlines vision for Hong Kong

VCG Editor's note: Zhu Zheng is an assistant professor of constitutional law and politics at China University of Political Science and Law. The article reflects the aut

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Meet Super.mx, the Mexico City-based insurtech that raised $7.2M from VCs and unicorn CEOs

Super.mx, an insurtech startup based in Mexico City, has raised $7.2 million in a Series A round led by ALLVP.Co-founded in 2019 by a trio of former insurance industry executives, Super.mx’s self-proc

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Fetch Robotics’ CEO on the company’s acquisition and the future of warehouse robots

Yesterday, enterprise computing corporation Zebra Technologies announced its plan to acquire Fetch Robotics. The San Jose-based startup has been a mainstay in warehouse and fulfillment robotics for a