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Going Green Together, One Project at a Time

By Dorinda Elliott Representatives from China’s top private companies joined some of its most influential state-owned enterprises, along with top U.S. high-tech leaders, retailers, automakers, and hoteliers last week in Shenzhen for a common purpose:...

Olympic Blue: How China Can Boost Wind Energy Efficiency

Although the United States has far lower wind energy capacity than China, it uses that capacity more efficiently, meaning its wind energy production is actually higher than China’s. According to a new Paulson Institute report,...

A Step Forward for Cleaner Energy in China’s Jing-Jin-Ji

By Anders Hove On July 18, China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) announced that the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Jing-Jin-Ji) region would become a pilot zone for electricity market reforms, with the goals of maintaining electric reliability, raising efficiency,...

Four U.S. Mayors On How China Can Avoid America’s Past Environmental Mistakes

For a delegation of 18 top officials from Tianjin, a recent panel of four experienced U.S. mayors held the answers to unlocking China’s green city challenges. As part of the Paulson Institute’s Mayors Training Program,...

Andrew Batson on How to Boost China’s Services Sector: Targets

China is striving to move away from heavy industry toward a more services-driven economy, and the country’s services sector now comprises more than 50 percent of GDP. But the bad news, according to a new...

A Former PBOC Official on Why China Should Loosen its Grip on the RMB

China should push further market reform to address challenges currently facing its exchange rate regime, argues former People’s Bank of China official Guan Tao in a new Paulson Policy Memorandum. Despite an August 2015 decision...

Fixing China’s Wasted Renewable Energy Problem

By Anders Hove Global investment in wind and solar continues to boom, and some areas of Europe and the United States already obtain substantial percentages of their electricity from these variable energy sources. Take Germany...

The Paulson Institute Newsletter – July 2016

How China Can Unleash its Services Sector

As China’s legacy heavy industries experience slowdown and overcapacity, the leadership is looking to the country’s services sectors for future economic growth. However, China must first liberalize its services industry to unlock growth, according to...

Can China Kick its Coal Habit?

Coal currently dominates China’s energy mix, and it figures to remain the country’s primary energy source until at least 2040, according to new research from the International Energy Agency. An upcoming Paulson Institute study explains...