Chinese Economics Thread

[antiterror13]

A slight erratum: an Mtoe is 42 Petajoules, not Gigajoules as I stated. Fortunately, this mistake does not affect my conclusion, as I used the correct numeric value of 42e15 J.

The solar energy on Earth, that's not reflected back to space, is really eighteen thousand times more than all the energy the world is currently using.

So every 30 mins of solar energy hit the earth enough to power the whole earth for 1 year ... that amazing, thanks

 

[antiterror13]

For any acronym that you don't know.
e.g. PC
Google " pc meaning "
Choose the definition to be the most likely fit.
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Thank you for the lecture of using Google

 

[badoc]

Thank you for the lecture of using Google

Not really about Google.
I meant to share that adding "meaning" will usually show useful results for commonly used acronyms.
Btw, it is good to know how best to google for meaningful results.
At 68 years old, and using a PC since 1986, I am open to suggestions on how to search better.
Anybody using Duckduckgo or Baidu ?
.

 

[ironborn]

Not really about Google.
I meant to share that adding "meaning" will usually show useful results for commonly used acronyms.
Btw, it is good to know how best to google for meaningful results.
At 68 years old, and using a PC since 1986, I am open to suggestions on how to search better.
Anybody using Duckduckgo or Baidu ?
.

Duckduckgo uses google search engine, just does not track your search query, Baidu is most for China's market.

 

[badoc]

Duckduckgo uses google search engine, just does not track your search query, Baidu is most for China's market.

how about Petal Search.
I have it on my Huawei.
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[ironborn]

how about Petal Search.
I have it on my Huawei.
.

Petal uses a different search engine than google, depends what you are searching, it may return totally different results than the same search on google. Especially on images and such.
If you are just say searching an news article or some general knowledge stuff, it may not be that much different than the results returned by Google, but for images and other, it returns fewer results than google, and sometimes, the returned results may be complete different than what you'll get from Google search.

 

[Faustshadowdancer]

Does anybody know if The Paulson Institute is a reliable source? They have a really bullish view on China’s HSR, which a lot of western media nearly unanimously treat like a white elephant. Here’s the link for anyone interested:

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[56860]

Does anybody know if The Paulson Institute is a reliable source? They have a really bullish view on China’s HSR, which a lot of western media nearly unanimously treat like a white elephant. Here’s the link for anyone interested:

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Bullish or objective?

According to western media China has collapsed every year for the past 30 years.

In 2008 China launched its first HSR between Beijing and Shanghai.

In 2022 China has 38,000km of HSR.

Between 2008 and 2022, China's GDP grew from 4.5 trillion to 18 trillion.

Sometimes you just need to use your common sense.

 

[Faustshadowdancer]

Bullish or objective?

According to western media China has collapsed for every year for the past 30 years.

In 2008 China launched its first HSR between Beijing and Shanghai.

In 2022 China has 38,000km of HSR.

Between 2008 and 2022, China's GDP grew from 4.5 trillion to 18 trillion.

Sometimes you just need to use your common sense.

I meant bullish in relation to basically every other western source. It’s my bad for not being clear.

Also, I wanted to use it for a paper.

 

[56860]

I meant bullish in relation to basically every other western source. It’s my bad for bot being clear.

Western sources almost always exaggerate China's issues and downplay its strengths.