city:guangzhou

The contradictions of Africa-China in Guangzhou
▻https://africasacountry.com/2019/02/the-contradictions-of-africa-china-in-guangzhou

Guangzhou, in Southern China, hosts the largest community in China of people from the African continent.

[Exclusif] Le contrat chinois de 7,2 millions d’euros d’Alexandre Benalla
Valeurs actuelles | Par Louis de Raguenel | Publié le 20/02/2019
▻https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/exclusif-le-contrat-chinois-de-72-millions-deuros-dalexandre-benal

(...) Après les révélations de Mediapart sur les contrats russe et ouzbek décrochés par Alexandre Benalla pour 2,2 millions d’euros, Valeurs actuelles est en mesure de révéler que l’ancien adjoint au chef de cabinet de l’Élysée a signé un contrat de sécurité de deux ans d’un montant de 7,2 millions d’euros avec une société chinoise cotée à la Bourse de Hong Kong. Le groupe chinois - réputé proche de l’appareil d’État - propose des solutions de services de sécurité, de logistique et d’assurance pour des clients en zones frontalières. Il recourait jusque-là principalement à de la main-d’œuvre américaine, française et russe pour assurer la sécurité de ses infrastructures et de ses effectifs en Afrique. Ses dirigeants veulent former leurs propres ressources. Et d’après nos informations, ils se sont tournés vers Alexandre Benalla, qui s’est engagé à réaliser des missions « d’accompagnement, de formation et de sécurisation ».

Il sera, dans le cadre de ce contrat, en lien avec des anciens de Blackwater, qui fut la plus grande société de sécurité privée au monde en comptant pas moins de 22 000 hommes en 2017, dont les missions ont longtemps consisté à agir pour la CIA, notamment en Afghanistan et en Irak. Plus précisément, le groupe chinois souhaite se doter d’un « important centre » de formation de ses équipes dans la région de Guangzhou, dans le sud de la Chine. Charge donc à Alexandre Benalla de réfléchir à la création du centre, à la préparation d’un module de formation et à la mise en place de process pour être opérationnel dans les prochains mois. L’objectif est ambitieux : le programme doit être dispensé à 10 000 agents de sécurité par an. (...)

#Chine #blackwater #Benalla

Overwatch League adds new teams in Guangzhou and Atlanta
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-08-03-overwatch-league-adds-new-teams-in-guangzhou-and-atlanta

Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime says, “we think that there will be more to come as well”

#eSports

Michelin a annoncé le départ de Michael Ellis, actuel directeur international des guides Michelin depuis 2011. « Sous son impulsion, les équipes du guide Michelin ont conduit avec succès une stratégie dynamique d’internationalisation. Le Guide compte aujourd’hui 31 éditions réparties dans 30 pays [Guangzhou sera la 32ème édition] et a enrichi sa collection de six nouveaux titres ces trois dernières années », rappelle le groupe. Son successeur sera nommé prochainement.

Le michelin est toujours un bon indicateur de l’évolution du monde de la cuisine. En mode mondialisation et non à la mondialité chère à Edouard Glissant.
Agence Option Finance (AOF)
#cuisine #restauration #mondialisation

Scientists checked the carbon footprint for 13,000 cities worldwide. These were the worst.
▻https://mic.com/articles/189651/scientists-checked-the-carbon-footprint-for-13000-cities-worldwide-these-were-t

Seoul came in at No. 1, with an output of 276.1 metric tons (plus or minus roughly 51.8 metric tons) of carbon dioxide a year. Guangzhou, China, came was ranked at No. 2, followed by New York City; Hong Kong; Los Angeles; Shanghai; Singapore; Chicago; Tokyo/Yokohama, Japan; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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This map built by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology show carbon emission levels for 13,000 cities worldwide. Norwegian University of Science and Technology/▻http://citycarbonfootprints.info

#co2 #empreinte_carbone #climat #villes

US diplomat in China reports mystery symptoms in case that echoes Cuban embassy illness | South China Morning Post
▻http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2147448/us-diplomat-china-reports-mystery-symptoms-case-echoes

A US government employee in southern China has reported abnormal sensations of sound and pressure, the State Department said on Wednesday, in a case that recalls the mystery illness that hit American diplomats serving in Cuba.

In an emailed notice to American citizens in China, the department said it was not currently known what had caused the symptoms in the city of Guangzhou, where an American consulate is located.
“A US government employee in China recently reported subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure,” the notice said.

“The US government is taking these reports seriously and has informed its official staff in China of this event.”

#syndrome_cubain

China Plans Merger of Shipbuilders to Create Behemoth - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-30/china-is-said-to-plan-merger-of-shipbuilders-to-create-behemoth

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China’s government is working on a plan to combine its two biggest shipbuilders to create an industrial giant that would dwarf its South Korean rivals, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The state council, China’s cabinet, has given its preliminary approval to merge China State Shipbuilding Corp. with China Shipbuilding Industry Corp., the people said, asking not to be identified as the information isn’t public. The two companies have combined revenue of at least 508 billion yuan ($81 billion) making products ranging from aircraft carriers for China’s navy to vessels to carry containers, oil and gas for commercial companies.

▻https://arcticportal.org/ap-library/news/1998-china-sent-more-than-a-dozen-vessels-through-the-arctic-this-year

Chinese shipping companies have sent a dozen vessels through the waters of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2017, compared to five vessels the previous year. This is the largest fleet of non-Russian flagged vessels to ever operate on the route. In addition, the Xue Long, a Chinese icebreaker, also spent nearly three months sailing the Arctic Ocean, including Canada’s Northwest Passage.

China’s Ocean Shipping Company utilized the route for five transit voyages — three westbound from Asia to Europe and two eastbound from Europe to Asia — and three destination trips to deliver modules for Yamal LNG to Sabetta. Guangzhou Salvage also delivered modules for Yamal LNG. In addition China’s National Offshore Oil Corporation and China’s Oilfield Services Limited conducted seismic and drilling activities in the Kara Sea.

The rapid increase of Chinese activity on the route follows the country’s intent to benefit from the opening of Arctic shipping routes.

“The NSR has officially become part of the maritime component of China’s One Belt One Road project after the publication of China’s National Development and Reform Commission and the State Oceanic Administration’s vision for Maritime Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative,” explains Ekaterina Klimenko, Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

#arctique #transport #transport_maritime #mer #géopolitique

Biafra, nostalgia as critique
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/06/biafra-nostalgia-as-critique

It was past midnight in a sleepy suburb of Guangzhou in southern China, and the loudspeakers of a restaurant were blaring highlife, upbeat but mournful: Ojukwu has died, people of Nigeria Ojukwu has died, people of Biafra Ikemba [Ojukwu] has died About one hundred young Nigerian men were celebrating the 2014 launch of an Igbo-language…

Penny Arcade Expo launches global expansion
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-05-25-penny-arcade-expo-launches-global-expansion

New “Powered By PAX” #Events to spread worldwide, starting with GC Play in Guangzhou, China

Shanghai et Guangzhou, les deux plus grandes villes du monde ? — Géoconfluences

▻http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/actualites/veille/shanghai-guangzhou-plus-grandes-villes

L’article est ici : ▻http://confins.revues.org/11729

François Moriconi-Ebrard et Joan Perez ont publié en février 2017 un article dans la revue Confins qui présente Shanghai et Guangzhou comme les deux agglomérations urbaines les plus peuplées du monde, avec 79,7 millions d’habitants pour la première et 47,5 millions d’habitants pour la seconde, soit respectivement la population de l’Allemagne et de l’Espagne. François Moriconi-Ebrard est l’auteur d’une base de données, Geopolis, publiée en 1994, mais dont les mises à jour ultérieures ne sont pas accessibles. L’article en rappelle brièvement la méthodologie, qui avait été conçue pour permettre la comparaison entre les agglomérations de différents pays : c’est la définition morphologique qui est utilisée, correspondant à la définition française de l’unité urbaine, c’est-à-dire la population agglomérée au dessus d’un seuil minimal. L’article explique que le saut quantitatif impressionnant réalisé par Shanghai et Guangzhou en une décennie est moins le fait de l’exode rural que de l’étalement urbain qui a absorbé dans une même agglomération des villes qui étaient déjà millionnaires. Au sens des auteurs, l’agglomération (ou la « tache urbaine ») de Guangzhou englobe ainsi Macao, Shenzen et Hong Kong, des villes qui sont toujours distinctes dans d’autres bases de données, comme celle de l’ONU (ci-dessous). L’article est également très intéressant en ce qu’il montre comment, en Chine, la définition administrative et politique de la ville prime sur les autres définitions possibles (morphologique ou fonctionnelle), de façon souvent performative : des espaces ruraux sont décrétés urbains et ils le deviennent effectivement. Les descriptions des formes urbaines de Shanghai et Guangzhou sont complétées par des cartes.
Rappelons que d’après l’ONU, ce sont toujours les agglomérations de Tokyo et Delhi qui sont à la première place en 2014. Le World urbanization prospect recense les 1691 agglomérations urbaines de plus de 300 000 habitants. 400 d’entre elles sont chinoises (23 %), 167 sont indiennes, et 20 sont françaises.
Population des dix plus grandes agglomérations urbaines du monde d’après l’ONU (2014)

#urban_matter #agglomérations #villes #population #démographie #chine #shanghai #guangzhou

Made-in-China: The lives and times of Africans in Guangzhou
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/12/made-in-china-the-lives-and-times-of-africans-in-guangzhou

Guangzhou, in Southern #China, has a long tradition as a trading port. More recently, in the wake of the Chinese state’s aggressive foreign and trade policies to Africa, the city is also home to a growing community of migrants and businesspeople from that continent. The latter buy goods in bulk in Guangzhou to sell back […]

#CULTURE #Film #Ghuangzhou #Guangzhou_Dream_Factory #migration #Review

Oman Air apologizes for maps using ‘Persian Gulf’ label

▻https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/oman-air-apologizes-maps-using-persian-gulf-label

C’est pour @reka bien entendu !

Japan, China, U.S. Ports Seen at Highest Catastrophe Risk - Bloomberg
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-08/japan-china-u-s-ports-seen-at-highest-risk-for-catastrophes

Ports in Japan, China and the U.S. face the greatest financial risk from natural disasters because of their vulnerable locations and increasing cargo volumes, a risk-management firm said.
Nagoya, Japan, leads all ports with a potential $2.3 billion cost to insurers from a one-in-500-year event because of the threat from earthquakes and windstorms, RMS Inc., a risk-modeling firm, said Monday in a statement. Guangzhou, China, is second at $2 billion, the company said, citing the possibility of wind-related losses and the dangers involving petroleum products and autos. RMS said satellite images and analysis of cargo types and storage methods helped modernize risk assessments.

“Outdated techniques and incomplete data have obscured many high-risk locations,” Chris Folkman, director of product management at RMS, said in the statement. “The industry needs to cease its guessing game when determining catastrophe risk and port accumulations.”

Tianjin Disaster
The report was released a year after the Tianjin port explosion in China, a man-made disaster that led to more than $3 billion in claims after damaging property, disrupting supply chains and killing more than 170 people. RMS’s analysis, which also considers the amount of time cargo stays in port, found that the increased use of standardized shipping containers increased the amount of goods exposed to damage. Ships and ports have grown bigger to accommodate the containers.

China’s Pearl River Delta, then and now - Ecoclimax
▻http://www.ecoclimax.com/2016/05/chinas-pearl-river-delta-then-and-now.html

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The region where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea has seen some of the most rapid urban expansion in human history over the past few decades – transforming what was mostly agricultural land in 1979 into what is the manufacturing heartland of a global economic superpower today.

In 2008, China announced plans to mesh Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhaoqing, Foshan, Huizhou, Jiangmen, Zhongshan and Zhuhai into a single megacity. A series of massive infrastructure projects are under way to merge transport, energy, water and telecoms networks across the nine cities. Development has been relentless, and the World Bank recently named the Pearl River Delta as the biggest urban area in the world in terms of population and geographical size.

#Chine #urbanisation #photographie

A New Map for America - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/a-new-map-for-america.html

We don’t have to create these regions; they already exist, on two levels. First, there are now seven distinct super-regions, defined by common economics and demographics, like the Pacific Coast and the Great Lakes. Within these, in addition to America’s main metro hubs, we find new urban archipelagos, including the Arizona Sun Corridor, from Phoenix to Tucson; the Front Range, from Salt Lake City to Denver to Albuquerque; the Cascadia belt, from Vancouver to Seattle; and the Piedmont Atlantic cluster, from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C.

Federal policy should refocus on helping these nascent archipelagos prosper, and helping others emerge, in places like Minneapolis and Memphis, collectively forming a lattice of productive metro-regions efficiently connected through better highways, railways and fiber-optic cables: a United City-States of America.

Similar shifts can be found around the world. Despite millenniums of cultivated cultural and linguistic provinces, China is transcending its traditional internal boundaries to become an empire of 26 megacity clusters with populations of up to 100 million each, centered around hubs such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing-Chengdu. Over time these clusters, whose borders fluctuate based on population and economic growth, will be the cores around which the central government allocates subsidies, designs supply chains and builds connections to the rest of the world.

Western countries are following suit. As of 2015, Italy’s most important political players are no longer its dozens of laconic provinces, but 14 “Metropolitan Cities,” like Rome, Turin, Milan and Florence, each of which has been legislatively merged with its surrounding municipalities into larger and more economically viable subregions.

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#connectivité #cartographie #implantation_humaine #mégavilles

Chinese Researchers Experiment with Making HIV-Proof Embryos
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601235/chinese-researchers-experiment-with-making-hiv-proof-embryos

Chinese fertility doctors have tried to make HIV-proof human embryos, but the experiments ended in a bust. The new report is the second time researchers in China revealed that they had a go at making genetically modified human embryos.

[...]

The Chinese scientists tried to make human embryos resistant to HIV by editing a gene called CCR5. It’s known that some people possess versions of this gene which makes them immune to the virus, which causes AIDS. The reason is they no longer make a protein that HIV needs to enter and hijack immune cells.

[...]

One day endowing people with protective genes could become a real possibility. It would be like a vaccine, except one that is installed in a person’s genome from birth. And there’s a long list of genes people might demand for their children in addition to HIV resistance. One DNA change, for instance, seems to completely prevent Alzheimer’s. Another generates people with twice the muscle mass.

“Made in China”

#CCR5 #Chine #Clustered_Regularly_Interspaced_Short_Palindromic_Repeats #Embryon #Guangzhou_Medical_University #Génétique_humaine #Organisme_génétiquement_modifié #Recherche_scientifique #Syndrome_d'immunodéficience_acquise #Virus_de_l'immunodéficience_humaine

Shenzhen Airport adds six long haul flights in a bid to win back traffic from Hong Kong | CAPA - Centre for Aviation

▻http://centreforaviation.com/analysis/shenzhen-airport-adds-six-long-haul-flights-in-a-bid-to-win-back-

signalé par Pierre Ageron sur Twitter

Limited long haul flights effectively operating as charters (such as to Mauritius) have been a feature at Shenzhen. The airport’s first regular long haul route only started in Jan-2016, with a China Southern service to Sydney. Shenzhen’s absence from long haul has been conspicuous: its GDP is one of the highest in China and companies have significant intercontinental business, all of this a mixture for long haul demand.

The neighbouring city Guangzhou is the hub for China Southern, and while it does not have the long haul proliferation of Beijing or Shanghai, it has had services to key cities. Guangzhou’s presence and that of closer Hong Kong have created alternative points for passengers reaching to Shenzhen. It has not helped that local airline Shenzhen Airlines has had stunted short haul international development and has not acquired widebody aircraft, despite airlines smaller than it flying widebodies and going long haul.

#chine #shenzen #transport_aérien

African Business in China - Al Jazeera English

▻http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2015/12/african-business-china-151213114754484.html

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Many African entrepreneurs today consider China as the new land of opportunities.

One of them is Nathalie Fodderie from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

On a reconnaissance trip to Guangzhou, in Southern China, she has three weeks to find equipment for her Kinshasa restaurant that needs complete refurbishment.

Fodderie works with an established network of African and Chinese middlemen and traders and haggles with some of the toughest businessmen in the world.

Through her journey, we see how African and Chinese traders grapple with geographic and cultural hurdles to make a profit.

#afrique #chine #rdc

Sur les ailes du dragon | Lieve Joris
▻http://www.actes-sud.fr/catalogue/litterature-etrangere/sur-les-ailes-du-dragon

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va-et-vient entre #Dubaï, la #Chine, l’#Afrique_du_Sud et le #Congo afin de rencontrer Africains et Chinois – pour tenter de comprendre leurs échanges, leurs singulières trajectoires de commerce, qui depuis des années se prolongent, se complexifient, s’affinent et s’étendent de Kinshasa et Lagos à Guangzhou et Beijing en passant par Dubaï, construisant le nouvel empire de la mondialisation

Afro-Chinese marriages boom in #Guangzhou
►http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1521076/afro-chinese-marriages-boom-guangzhou-will-it-be-til-death #China #Africa

Some photos from #Guangzhou last year. Traders dealing in hair extensions, clothes and everything else
by @SamPiranty
▻https://www.flickr.com/photos/126825933@N06

#photographie #commerce #Canton #Chine #Afrique #Chinafrique

Ascenseur, la course au #Ruban_bleu
Record actuel à Taipei, 60 km/h
Projet pour 2016 à Canton, 72 km/h

Burj Khalifa à Dubaï se traîne à 35 km/h

El ascensor que subirá a 76 kilómetros por hora
▻http://www.el-nacional.com/bbc_mundo/ascensor-subira-kilometros-hora_0_397160358.html

La firma japonesa Hitachi aspira a unirse a la competencia, al anunciar la instalación de un elevador ultra-rápido en el centro financiero CTF de la ciudad de Guangzhou, en el sur de China, informa el corresponsal de tecnología de la BBC, David Lee.

Según dice la empresa, el ascensor será capaz de alcanzar los 72 km/h, logrando recorrer 95 pisos en 43 segundos.

Actualmente ostenta el primer lugar en velocidad el ascensor del Taipei 101, edificio de más de 500 metros de altura ubicado en Taiwan. Es capaz de transportar a sus pasajeros desde el piso 5 al 89 en 37 segundos, a una velocidad de 60 km/h.

À ces vitesses, on risque un barotraumatisme de l’oreille. Hitachi prévient ce risque en installant un mécanisme de régulation de la pression dans l’ascenseur…

African traders flocked to Guangzhou for the cheap goods but are staying to run manufacturing operations - ▻http://qz.com/81642/african-traders-flocked-to-guangzhou-for-the-cheap-goods-but-are-staying-to-run- #China #Africa #Chinafrique #Chinafrica #Chine #Afrique

8,000 Chinese workers strike at LG Display’s Nanjing plant

About 8,000 Chinese workers at LG Display’s Nanjing plant are staging a strike, calling for “fair treatment” from management, according to China’s largest portal site on Tuesday.

Sina.com said the strikers took to streets on Monday and now are in talks with management to settle the labor dispute. LG Display, the world’s leading LCD maker, has three module manufacturing plants in China with the other two located in Guangzhou and Yantai.

►http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20111227000898