Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'National People's Congress 2013'

It Is Now Down To Seven Guys In A Room

 Source of picture: China Daily   By John Richardson The famous investor, Jim Chanos, warned three years years ago that the West places an inordinate amount of trust in "nine guys in a room" (i.e. China's Politburo Standing Committee) getting...

China NPC Underlines Inflation Focus

The course of true love never runs smooth.....Happy China couples get divorced and then plan to remarry in order to avoid new property tax Source of picture: Quirky China News/Rex Features   By John Richardson China will see "large inflation pressure in...

China Coal Cap: What It Means For Chems

By John Richardson IF China's decade-long focus on coal-fuelled heavy industry is really coming to an end, as this article in The Sydney Morning Herald suggests, then the prospects for further approvals of coal-to-olefins (CTO) projects seem very bleak indeed....

Reassessing China Petchem Projects

By John Richardson Methanol-to-olefins (MTO) projects in China are subject to more disagreement over viability than any other group of petrochemicals investments, said HSBC in a report released last month. HSBC, for example, takes a pretty negative view of...