China wheeled out its economic heavyweights on Wednesday to reassure citizens and investors about its economic strategies for the year ahead. They gave far more detail on Beijing's plans.

Government work report says it wants to mobilize resources to raise China's capacity for innovation to help it to become self-sufficient in emerging technologies

The chairman of Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt said over-investment in the industry had led to "severe overcapacity" and caused "significant declines" in industry utilisation

The EU is looking more aid for solar manufacturers, and auctions and support for panels with high environmental and labour standards, which could give EU manufacturers an edge

Premier will outline key economic goals, but may also cast light on "new productive forces" - steps to promote strategic industries such as AI

Premium electric vehicle brand IM Motors has raised more than 8 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) in its Series B round of equity financing. The money will be used on 'smart car' models and technologies

Utility-scale solar power is now the cheapest power source in 11 out of 15 Asia-Pacific countries, a new report said

The White House said the probe could lead to restrictions being imposed on Chinese EVs due to concerns about "connected" car technology

US scientists to work with Singapore's water agency to build a plant that can remove 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide a day. Their firm then plans global deployment of the new CO2 removal tech

BMW plans to build a battery factory for electric vehicles in Rayong, on Thailand's eastern seaboard this year, to take advantage of Thai government incentives for local battery makers

Emissions data fraud has been a big problem for China's carbon trading scheme, but State Council officials have drawn up new rules with far tougher penalties, which are set to be enforced in May

An artificial intelligence (AI) trained on previous experiments has been able to predict instabilities in the complicated process