Reményeim szerint ez lenne a helye annak a nemzetközi makroökonómiai diszkussziónak, amit már évek óta folytatunk különböző topicokon egy pár emberrel, és amely megérdemelne egy saját topikot. Valamint nagyon remélem, hogy a társalgás hamar eléri azt a szintet, hogy a topik bekerülhet a Polgazd Fórum védett keretei közé.
Az itt megvitatandó témák közé sorolnám pl az amerikai hitelválságot, és a nyomában kibontakozó recesszió gyanús folyamatokat, Kina, Ázsia emelkedését és esetleges bukását, a világméretü erőforrás, energia és élelmiszer inflációt, a tőke és pénzpiacok folyamatait, a fentieket befolyásoló geopolitikai eseményeket, stb
Nem örünék annak viszont, ha magyar aktuálpolitikai témák jönnének fel, valamint a hitelpénzrendszer vagy a derivativ, opciós piacok eredendő gonoszságáról szóló fejtegetéseket sem szivesen olvasnék itt.
During the first half of 2023, China approved 52 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power, which was more than all the approvals issued in 2021. These new approvals are in addition to the 136 GW of coal capacity that are already under construction. Together, these new plants represent more than 67% of all new approvals in the world.
China is mining record amounts of coal and also importing record volumes of coal as it looks to boost its energy security. This growing appetite for coal is inevitable given the huge demand from the power sector and industry in general.
Over 1 billion tons of crude steel are produced in China each year, accounting for over half of global steel output. The Chinese steel industries—over 90% of them—use coal-based processes.
Chinese steel firms are making significant investments in new, coal-based steelmaking capacity. To put this in context, China’s approval of new steel capacity per year is twice that of the entire capacity of the German steel industry.
Like steelmaking, the manufacturing of cement is energy intensive, with coal accounting for up to 85% of the energy used in the process. China is the world's largest producer and consumer of cement. According to analysts, China consumes as much cement every two years as the U.S. did over the entire 20th century. Cement production is projected to increase further in coming years, and high demand will possibly last for decades.
China has overtaken Greece to become the world's largest ship-owning country in terms of gross tonnage, according to information released over the weekend by the Shanghai-based China Shipowners' Association.
Citing data from Clarksons Research, a leading provider of data and intelligence for global shipping based in the United Kingdom, the association said the fleet of Chinese shipowners has reached 249.2 million GT, accounting for a global market share of 15.9 percent, or about $180 billion in fleet value.
This is slightly higher than the 249 million GT of Greek shipowners' fleet, which accounts for a global market share of 15.8 percent and is valued at around $163 billion.
Japan ranks third with a fleet of 181 million GT, followed by South Korea and the United States, both at around 66 million GT.
Although China has taken the lead in terms of gross tonnage, which is a nonlinear measure of a vessel's overall internal volume, Greece still maintains the lead in terms of deadweight tonnage, which measures the total weight a ship can carry.
The European country currently holds a significant portion of the market with a deadweight tonnage of 423 million, accounting for 18 percent of the world's total, according to Clarksons Research. Greek shipowners are also competitive in sectors such as oil tankers, liquefied natural gas carriers and bulk carriers.
Nem gondoltam volna, hogy a gorogok ilyen nagy hajosok vilagszinten is.
A járványtól csakmegtorpant egyelőre, de a következő hullám lehet, hogy tényleg katasztrofát okoz. ehez sokköze van a nagyon gyors közlekedésnek is. Most is terjeng új változat a világban, ha terjed akkor mutálódik is.
A szuperkolónia vírus reaktorrá alakulva támad önmaga ellen, teszteli melyikből tud szupervírustcsinálni. Persze, csak addig jut az amíg le nem nyugszunk megint, de az Kínát tényleg tönkre is teheti.
Ha nem is elozte meg, de ugyanazon a szinten van. Orszagok GDP-jet valoban csak ppp alapon van ertelme osszehasonlitani. Ha nem igy tesszuk, akkor olyan abszurd dolgok jelentkeznek, hogy pl. ugyanannak a big mac-nek a megvetele az egyik orszag GDP-jehez ketszer annyival jarul hozza, mint a masikehoz. Az ilyeneke szuri ki a ppp.
2016 ota Kina a legnagyobb gazdasag. Jelenleg 25%-kal nagyobb, mint az USA, 2030-ban a masfelszerese lesz.
Nagy tavolsagok vannak, es utazni akarnak az emberek.
15 evvel ezelott indult Kinaban az elso 350 km/h sebessegu vasutvonal:
The 166-km line reduced travel time between Beijing and Tianjin to about half an hour. When it began operations, about 94 bullet trains ran on the line every day. Now, about 256 trains operate daily. At peak travel times, trains depart every three minutes.
The number of daily passenger trips has increased from 48,000 to 73,000, according to China Railway Beijing Group, the line's operator.
256 vonat naponta, 3 percenkent megy egy. Ezt nevezem en vasutnak. Nem kell menetrendet nezni, csak kimenni, es jon egy vonat. Gyakorlatilag olyan, mint a metro. Kb. Budapest-Miskolc tavolsag.
Ha mar a kinai seggnyalos ugynok visszatert, szembesulhet a realitassal, amit nagyon nagy ivben igyekezett elhallgatni:
Youth unemployment in China has hit a new record high as the country's post-pandemic recovery falters. The jobless rate of 16 to 24 year olds in urban areas rose to 21.3% last month, official figures show. It comes as the world's second largest economy grew just 0.8% in the three months to the end of June.
BEIJING — China said Monday that second-quarter gross domestic product grew by 6.3% from a year ago, missing expectations. The unemployment rate among young people ages 16 to 24 was 21.3% in June, a new record.
Li Sheng, head of the institute, estimated that China will have around 62 million kW of operational pumped storage hydropower capacity by 2025.
By 2030, China's operational pumped storage hydropower stations are expected to reach a total installed capacity of about 160-180 million kW.
The installed capacity of new energy storage projects that were put into operation during the first half of this year in China has reached 8.63 million kilowatts, equivalent to the total installed capacity of previous years in the country, according to the National Energy Administration (NEA).
New energy storage refers to electricity storage processes that use electrochemical, compressed air, flywheel and supercapacitor systems, but not pumped hydro.
By the end of June, the cumulative installed capacity of new energy storage projects completed and put into operation in China has exceeded 17.33 million kilowatts, with an average storage time of 2.1 hours, she said.
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, one of the country's major space contractors, announced on Thursday in Wuhan, Hubei province, that it plans to construct a massive remote-sensing satellite network before 2030.
Upon its scheduled completion around 2030, the space-based system will have 300 remote-sensing satellites operating in extra-low orbits, which have altitudes of less than 300 kilometers, and will be able to obtain optical pictures, radar data, and hyperspectral and infrared images.
By that time, the network will be capable of mapping and surveying any given place in the world within 15 minutes after receiving users' requests, the company said in a news release on the sidelines of the 9th China International Commercial Aerospace Forum that opened on Wednesday in Wuhan.
Tavaly felfüggesztették a visszatáplálási lehetőséget, ezzel ellehetetlenült a szaldóelszámolás, a potenciális felhasználók a kiszámíthatatlanság miatt egyszerűen elállnak a beruházásoktól.
A lakosság saját erőből egy paksi erőművi kapacitást tett volna be a hálózatba, ha nem piszkálják meg a visszatáplálást.
Over time, the definition of “officially unemployed” has gotten more restrictive, and today only 6.097 million working age Americans are considered to be in that category.
Meanwhile, a staggering 99.800 million working age Americans are considered to be “not in the labor force”.
When you add both categories together, you get a total of 105.897 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now.
As the largest chip market, China consumed about 60 percent of all semiconductors in the world in 2022.
Last year, the market size of the global chip industry stood at about $600 billion, according to Gartner.
Data from the China Semiconductor Industry Association shows that the sales revenue of China's homegrown chip industry jumped to 516 billion yuan ($71 billion) in 2022 from 8.15 billion yuan in 2004, with an average annual compound growth rate of 25.9 percent. In comparison, the global average annual compound growth rate during the same period was 6.39 percent.
China's shipbuilding industry saw new vessel orders surge 49.5 percent year-on-year in the first five months of 2023, official data showed.
New orders, a major indicator of the shipbuilding industry, stood at 26.45 million deadweight tons (DWT) during the five-month period, with a global market share of 67.3 percent, according to statistics released by Beijing-based China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry.
The country's shipbuilding output grew by 15.4 percent on a yearly basis to 16.47 million DWT between January and May, accounting for 48.1 percent of the world's total.
By the end of May, the sector's holding orders totaled 117.99 million DWT, up 15.5 percent year-on-year, claiming 51.6 percent of the world's market share.
China's UnionPay surpassed Visa for the first time in 2022, securing 40.03 percent of global debit card transactions, China Media Group (CMG) reported on Sunday, citing latest statistics compiled by industry platform Nilson Report.
"Debit cards with the UnionPay brand held a market share of 40.03 percent of all debit card purchase transactions, an increase of 139 basis points (bps)," read the Nilson Report.
Visa's share of debit card transactions was down 82 bps to 38.78 percent in 2022, ranking second to UnionPay, according to the report.
China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, said Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), on Monday at a press conference held at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
Lin said the mission has already started and the CMSA is working on the necessary hardware, including the research and development of a new-generation carrier rocket (Long March-10), to launch an upgraded manned spacecraft, a lunar lander and the construction of test and launch facilities and equipment. It will also involve the development of new spacesuits.
Eleg gyors menetrend, ugy, hogy meg a raketat is ki kell fejleszteni.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has unveiled a new high-performance processor chip and a new operating system, based on the popular open-source chip design standard known as RISC-V.
According to the SEIRS model for infectious disease dynamics, the second peak of the COVID-19 might occur at the end of June, with about 65 million people infected a week, renowned Chinese respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan said on Monday.
Nem is probaljak megakadalyozni a terjedeset. A sulyos betegsegek kialakulasat probaljak megakadalyozni.
China's parcel delivery industry has undergone rapid development over the past decade with volumes increasing from 5.6 billion items in 2012 to 110 billion items last year.
At 1,956 km, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a plateau railway featuring the highest altitude and longest distance in the world. It starts from Xining, Qinghai province, and ends in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau used to be an isolated region because of transportation difficulties, high altitude, steep terrain and complex geographical conditions.
American travel writer Paul Theroux gave an assessment about railways on the plateau region in one of his diaries in the 20th century, noting that as long as the Kunlun Mountains exist, a railway would never reach Lhasa.
The construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was started in 1958, and the section between Xining and Golmud was completed in 1984. The section between Golmud and Lhasa was completed and started operating in 2006.
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The Qinghai-Tibet Railway transported 803 million metric tons of goods and 265 million passengers between 2006 and 2022, according to its operator.
Mar epul egy masodik vasutvonal Tibetbe, az Szecsuan iranyabol.
Mindig megdobbentenek ezek a kinai csomagszallitasi adatok. Napi 300 millio csomag. Jo sok szemetet generalhat a sok csomagolas.
China’s express delivery industry has seen a steady recovery since the beginning of 2023, with the total volume amounting to 40 billion parcels as of May 4, said China’s State Post Bureau on Friday via its official WeChat account.
Official data shows that during the May Day holiday from April 29 to May 3, a total of 1.496 billion parcels had been received from customers nationwide. The average daily collection volume increased by 119.6 percent compared with the May Day holiday in 2019, and by 11.64 percent compared with the same period last year.
Meanwhile, a total of 1.599 billion parcels had been delivered during the five-day holiday. The average daily delivery volume increased by 144.59 percent compared with the same period of 2019, and by 8.78 percent compared with the May Day holiday last year.
