China's huge demand for durian has led it to supplement Thai and Malaysian imports with cultivation on Hainan Island, where political exiles were once sent Well-read enemies of the state educated locals, and later, emigration saw foods including the island's chicken rice reach Southeast Asia, where it took root The Chinese love affair with durian, the spiky, strong-smelling fruit native to Southeast Asia, is so intense that China has started its.
Singapore billionaire grows Shenzhen Mindray by US$3.8 billion a month and pledges more as ‘golden decade’ beckons Iris Ouyang iris.ouyang@scmp.com A statue of a bull is displayed outside the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. Photo: Reuters
In less than three years since its home debut, Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics has handed stock investors greater returns than all the largest companies traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges bar two.
The stock s 992 per cent total return from mid-October 2018, in US dollar terms, easily surpassed the CSI 300 Index by more than 10 times. Only a dozen companies with at least US$20 billion of market capitalisation, such as Tesla and Singapore-based Sea Ltd, have performed better on the global stage over the period.
China’s carbon neutral goal: Cainiao, JD.com and online retailers say all that mountain of plastics and packaging have to go Illustration: Henry Wong/SCMP
Outside a residential compound in the Longhua district in southern China s technology metropolis Shenzhen, home to some of the country s most advanced companies, a quiet revolution is unfolding.
A green, giant recycling bin outside the delivery room of the compound receives discarded cartons, plastic wrappings and packaging of nearly 1,000 parcels on an average day. Operated by Cainiao, the logistics arm of Alibaba Group Holding, the recycle bin and the delivery room are among 80,000 established since 2017 across China to spearhead Cainiao s campaign to reduce, reuse and recycle packaging in the world s largest e-commerce market.