This week in China
A busy week, though the news was overshadowed by the Olympics.
A TCM, Tongxinluo, significantly improves 30-day and 1-year outcomes for Acute Myocardial Infarction, as an adjunctive therapy in addition to STEMI guideline-directed treatments.
A newly-built community in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, suffers from frequent power cuts. Then residents protested in the streets to pressure the developer and the local govt to solve the problem. Who says the Chinese aren’t allowed to protest?
By 2050 China’s highly able STEM workforce could be 10x larger than America’s, even larger than the rest of the world combined. ‘Highly able’ means the top few percentiles in math ability in developed countries (e.g., EU), as measured by PISA at age 15.
In 2023 power generation increased 6.9% YoY (nice). Installed capacity of renewables hit 1450 GW, exceeding the installed capacity of thermal power (a meaningless milestone) – Renewable energy met 30% of power consumption (a big milestone). 61.4% of electricity and 47.3% of renewable power was sold via the power markets (nice progress for market liberalization–having renewables trade freely in the open market is a big test for both the power market AND the asset owner). This is the 4th consecutive year that power consumption growth has exceeded GDP growth.
China’s air and water quality saw steady improvement in H1 2024. 83% of days had good air quality in 339 Chinese cities at and above the prefecture level, a 1.4% improvement YoY. The share of surface water below Grade V, the lowest level, fell 0.2% to 0.8%.
After the United States threatened to use the FBI to arrest Chinese athletes in
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Paris, WADA is deciding whether to sue the US or even stop the United States from hosting the 2028 Olympics. In Olympic events, blacks have an absolute advantage in running events, basketball and football; Asians have an absolute advantage in technical events like gymnastics, diving, shooting, badminton; White people’s only absolute advantage is in swimming among main events, and now China has become the biggest challenger to the white monopoly on swimming gold medals. In the 2020 Olympics, the Chinese swimming team won 16 gold medals. By promoting China’s doping issue, public opinion pressure can be exerted on China. Even if no problems are found, Chinese players have to be repeatedly subjected to doping tests, even up to seven times a day. This will have a huge impact on the both physical and psychological well-being of Chinese players and will inevitably affect their competition results. For example, Chinese swimmer Qin Haiyang achieved a time of 58.93 seconds in the 100 meter breaststroke semi-final, but only 59.50 seconds in the final after many tests, ranking seventh. If he can do 58.93 seconds again in the final, he would win the gold medal. The final result for the gold medalist was only 59.03 seconds. The so-called doping problem in China is actually very minor. In a domestic competition in China in 2021, it was found that 23 athletes collectively tested weakly positive for trimetazidine. The Chinese team voluntarily reported this incident to WADA, who finally determined that it was a collective mis-ingestion of toxic food. Moreover, trimetazidine will decay to only 1% within 1-2 days, making it a actually very weak stimulant, even useless.
With 15,899 monitoring stations across the country, China has completed the world’s largest earthquake warning network, the China Earthquake Administration said Friday.
