China

Just some wholesome, light hearted content for when you need a little break from the heavy political stuff.

Literal translation of Chinese title: "At great cool mountain, for Yi People in rural village selling goods is what personal experience". Wholesome video of man bringing tasty food to villagers in a border region inhabited by Yi people in China.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5388891

I'm a programmer. I would like to understand the ecosystem of apps and providers in China so that I can become proficient with them and their integrations.

It is impossible to do that research in English, but I'm also dipping my toes in mandarin. So I'm looking for research h material. A lot. Give me the breadcrumbs to the rabbit hole and I'm all in!

Some questions I'm thinking about are around:

Where should I search for content? What are the main apps people use? How do I find developer documentation? (think developers.facebook.com/, or https://developers.google.com/) What are the most popular frameworks and technologies? Where does it all run? Is it all x86 and x64 and arm? What else is there? Many local spinoffs, like orangepi.org to raspberry pi?

The world is vast and I'm curious.

I'm going to use this video as a reference for my own website project.

What do you all think?

It seems that Japanese and Chinese website design is just superior to Western design.

The comments are bad as usual haha

« Over the 16-year period since 2008, the number of years it takes for an average Chinese manufacturing worker to afford a basic plug-in EV has fallen from ~9 years to <1.
This is while the technical/performance specs have increased dramatically. »

Solar :
« This year, China will add more solar power than the US’ entire installed capacity!
🔹hOw aBoUt cOaL? China will add 50GW of coal power plants this year, while adding 200GW of renewable. »


More : 1, 2, 3, 4

Nuclear as well :

Oil :

And everything else really

Even forests

And pollution :

« China’s pollution levels in 2021 had fallen 42% from 2013 »
«If China’s contribution were disregarded, global air pollution would have increased, not declined, in the 2010s » :

Finally : 1, 2, etc.

Seems like the future isn't here.

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2024 in the first quarterly fall since the country re-opened from its “zero-Covid” lockdowns in December 2022.

The new analysis for Carbon Brief, based on official figures and commercial data, shows China remains on track for a decline in annual emissions this year.

Other key findings from the analysis include:

China’s energy demand grew by 4.2% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2024. This is slower than the growth seen in 2023 and in the first quarter of this year, but is still much higher than the pre-Covid trend.

CO2 emissions from energy use and cement production fell by 1% in the second quarter. When combined with a sharp 6.5% increase in January-February and a monthly decline in March, there was a 1.3% rise in CO2 emissions across the first half of the year, compared with the same period in 2023.

Electricity generation from wind and solar grew by 171 terawatt hours (TWh) in the first half of the year, more than the total power output of the UK in the same period of 2023.

China’s carbon intensity – its emissions per unit of GDP – only improved by 5.5%, well short of the 7% needed to meet the country’s intensity target for 2025.

This was despite a one-off boost from China’s hydropower fleet recovering from drought.

Compared with a year earlier, the increase in the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on China’s roads cut demand for transport fuels by approximately 4%.

Manufacturing solar panels, EVs and batteries was only responsible for 1.6% of China’s electricity consumption and 2.9% of its emissions in the first half of 2024.

https://archive.ph/6nSsl

Kind of long + language barrier but I thought it was really incredible how these wind turbine blades make it from inner mongolia to xizang. It's crazy to see how narrow the roads are and how careful the drivers must be. The mountain roads even have a special tool to transport the blades at an angle. Bonus points for the neat food + lodging over the multi-day journey and the random guy playing CS:GO lmao

“It would be inappropriate for the central government to directly provide fiscal support, as it could lead to expectation of future government bail-out and therefore moral hazards,” Zhang said.

Ouch, no handouts for the financial bros...😂

https://archive.ph/t6oz0