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      Senior Chinese political advisor calls for joint efforts to build community with shared future

      2024-12-14 04:43 Last Updated At:14:57

      Hu Chunhua, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the opening ceremony of the 2024 Imperial Springs International Forum in Madrid on Thursday, calling for joint efforts to build a community with a shared future for mankind.

      Hu read a congratulatory letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping and delivered a speech at the opening ceremony.

      In his congratulatory letter, Xi gave full recognition to the forum's positive role in enhancing exchanges and understanding between China and other countries, and provided clear guidance on using the forum as a platform to further build international consensus and advance a community with a shared future for mankind, said Hu.

      Amid accelerating global changes unseen in a century, China will remain a champion of peace, stability and progress, while promoting high-level opening-up, Hu said.

      He called on visionary people across the world to actively engage with the forum, strengthen friendships, promote cooperation, and contribute their wisdom and efforts to building a community with a shared future for mankind.

      During his stay in Spain, Hu also attended a group meeting with Spanish King Felipe VI, and met with First Vice President of the Senate of Spain Javier Maroto and others.

      Senior Chinese political advisor calls for joint efforts to build community with shared future

      Senior Chinese political advisor calls for joint efforts to build community with shared future

      Senior Chinese political advisor calls for joint efforts to build community with shared future

      Senior Chinese political advisor calls for joint efforts to build community with shared future

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      CATL's German battery plant powers up local green transition

      2025-02-18 22:36 Last Updated At:23:07

      ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A new plant set up by China's leading battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) in Germany to produce batteries for electric vehicles has brought significant economic and environmental benefits to the country and beyond. 

      Germany has long been a pivotal force in the global car industry, renowned as the birthplace of the automobile. With the drive towards greener mobility, it wants more manufacturers to build factories and advance domestic electric vehicle production.

      CATL, headquartered in the city of Ningde, east China's Fujian Province, started to build its first overseas base in 2018 in the German state of Thüringen.

      "The battery making business is something you do very close with your customers. It's an eye to eye thing. And its important to have the short supply chains in the long term. We have had our first cooperation here in Germany starting in 2012. And then we decided to come here and start producing batteries in Germany and Europe in 2018," said Caspar Spinnen, public relations manager for CATL Germany.

      This localized production offers multiple advantages. With batteries representing around 40 percent of an electric vehicle's price, local manufacturing reduces expenses and minimizes transport emissions. Importantly, it also creates jobs and fosters knowledge transfer.

      "We are bringing a lot of new know-how here into the region. Battery manufacturing is still quite a new subject in Europe and that also comes with some added benefits.  We are also helping train people on the ground for future generations of battery production here on site," Spinnen said. 

      This investment aligns with the EU's ambitious climate goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030.

      But with not enough European battery producers to satisfy demand, Germany and other EU countries appear open to Chinese investment.

      The plant aims to build hundreds of thousands of batteries for electric vehicles across the continent and beyond, to power the European Union's growing EV industry. 

      CATL's German battery plant powers up local green transition

      CATL's German battery plant powers up local green transition

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