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Covering tech for @business, trained by @nytimes, @caixin; @ElliottSchoolGW alum, now @HarvardExt; views own; [email protected]

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Luz Ding
2 years
In the past few months, we investigated how China’s richest man built his business empire by bottling water from the country’s most ecologically important mountains, lakes, and rivers, bringing himself massive fortune as well as resistance and lawsuits from impacted communities.
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Bloomberg Green
2 years
China’s richest man Zhong Shanshan built a fortune that's outpaced the founders of TikTok and Alibaba by bottling water from pristine areas. It's a business model with growing environmental tensions
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RT @ColumbiaUEnergy: 🚨 Applications are now open for our 2025 #EnergyJournalismFellows program!. We're looking for energy/environment journ….
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7 months
“The top 50 AI talents may not be in China, but perhaps we can cultivate such individuals ourselves.” .- DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng said in an interview with Chinese publication 36Kr.
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Luz Ding
10 months
RT @sjcasey: The Inflation Reduction Act added thousands of clean energy manufacturing jobs in the US, but with an unintended consequence:….
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bloomberg.com
The Inflation Reduction Act restored American manufacturing jobs – and gave China an opportunity to extend its dominance in some clean energy technologies.
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10 months
RT @SStapczynski: Chinese wind turbines are getting HUGE 🇨🇳🌬️. ⚠️ The latest one has blades with a diameter of 310 meters (!!) -- that's ta….
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bloomberg.com
China’s Dongfang Electric Corp. has surprised the offshore wind industry with an announcement that it’s built a new turbine radically larger than anything previously available in the sector.
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Luz Ding
1 year
Looking forward to meeting everyone in New York! 🥰.
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Center on Global Energy Policy
1 year
We're excited to welcome the 2024 cohort of CGEP's #EnergyJournalismFellows!. The seminar offers journalists the opportunity to learn about disciplines shaping the global energy sector, including:.📈 Finance & markets.🌡️ Climate change.🔬 Science & tech.📑 Policy.🌎 Geopolitics.
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Luz Ding
1 year
RT @cocojournalist: When my editor called and asked me if I'd heard of it, I was like: heard of what? I'm in the middle of a story. It turn….
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Luz Ding
1 year
Super honored to have reported on the China story for Bloomberg’s Water Grab series that was named a 2024 Pulitzer finalist for explanatory reporting. Amazing working with @cocojournalist @sharonchenhm, @MartinShanghai, congrats to you all! .
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1 year
RT @RetoGregori: From the Yay, Us Dept.: We're thrilled that our Water Grab series is a 2024 Pulitzer finalist for explanatory reporting. C….
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bloomberg.com
While faucets in coastal Dakar barely trickle, an investment company uses Senegal’s only lake to irrigate crops it plans to send to Saudi Arabia.
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Luz Ding
1 year
RT @JanePerlez: Apple depends on China to make its iPhones. On Episode 2 of our podcast #FaceOff, we’re talking how iPhones are made by mi….
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Luz Ding
1 year
☀️SCOOP: World's top solar manufacturer Longi is cutting as much as 30% of its workforce as industry consolidation presses on. It already asked thousands to leave at the end of last year. Still, Longi is at a better position to survive given it's cash-rich. 💵 .Read more: 👇.
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Bloomberg Energy
1 year
The world’s largest solar manufacturer, China’s Longi Green Technology Energy, will cut up to 30% of its workforce
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Luz Ding
2 years
RT @markets: Taylor Swift’s Eras tour concert movie is packing theaters across China, providing a rare outlet for young women rejecting eve….
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bloomberg.com
Women belting out feminist lyrics that denounce gender inequality. Teenagers in glittery dresses dancing to songs celebrating LGBTQ freedoms. The number 1989 — the most sensitive year in modern...
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Luz Ding
2 years
We had an exclusive interview with chairman of the world's largest solar company Longi at Davos, and he commented on the US clean energy market, a potential second Trump presidency's impact, and supply chain challenges. More:.
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bloomberg.com
China-based Longi Green Energy Technology Co., the world’s biggest solar equipment maker, insists a second Donald Trump presidency won’t halt its plans to expand sales in the US.
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Luz Ding
2 years
To me, nothing beats on-the-ground reporting, and I can't wait to start more adventures in 2024!.
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Luz Ding
2 years
It’s been the busiest year in my journalism career – traveling every other week for a better part of 2023, and it’s also the most fulfilling year with lots of learning thanks to my outstanding and patient editors and colleagues.
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Luz Ding
2 years
I reported from a hot pot restaurant to explore how food waste is transformed into sustainable air jet fuel.
bloomberg.com
This company collects used fat from Chengdu restaurants and exports it to makers of sustainable jet fuel.
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Luz Ding
2 years
. and chatted with a monk who lives in a thousand-year-old temple on the top of a mountain with his master and a cat finally gets electricity for the first time thanks to solar.
bloomberg.com
The Boluo Temple mountain monastery finally has solar power for an electric stove and space heater. That’s enough for monks who refuse the luxuries of fully charged modern life.
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