
Luz Ding
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Covering tech for @business, trained by @nytimes, @caixin; @ElliottSchoolGW alum, now @HarvardExt; views own; [email protected]
People's Republic of China
Joined July 2013
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.
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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RT @technology: What exactly is DeepSeek? And why is it suddenly the talk of everywhere from Davos to Washington? Here's everything you nee….
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DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial-intelligence startup that’s just over a year old, has stirred awe and consternation in Silicon Valley after demonstrating AI models that offer comparable performance to...
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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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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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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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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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Looking forward to meeting everyone in New York! 🥰.
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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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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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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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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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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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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☀️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: 👇.
The world’s largest solar manufacturer, China’s Longi Green Technology Energy, will cut up to 30% of its workforce
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RT @GreenpeaceEAsia: As China's largest energy consumers, eastern provinces should focus on developing distributed renewable energy with en….
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China’s ambition of delivering the world’s largest clean energy deployment in remote deserts and interior regions will face challenges without more focus on boosting grid capacity, according to an...
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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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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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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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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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. and a farmhouse’s rooftop to figure out why China’s residential solar installation exploded.
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One in five solar panels installed worldwide last year were mounted on a Chinese roof, putting households at the forefront of efforts to decarbonize a top emitter.
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I reported from a hot pot restaurant to explore how food waste is transformed into sustainable air jet fuel.
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This company collects used fat from Chengdu restaurants and exports it to makers of sustainable jet fuel.
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. 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.
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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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I spoke to a village resident who sued China’s richest man for environmental damages.
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Zhong Shanshan built his Nongfu Spring empire by extracting water from some of the country’s most ecologically important rivers and mountains.
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