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HAVANA, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) — Darwin Fraguela, a 42-year-old engineer from Havana, supervises on-air broadcast signals and transmitters output at a brand-new monitor control room donated by China to Cuban state TV. Read more

HAVANA, Aug. 5th China has called on the United States to cease its decades-long campaign of sanctions against Cuba and has pledged support for the fellow Communist state under new pressure from President Joe Biden’s administration. Read more

HAVANA, Feb. 5th  (Reuters) Cuba’s imports from China tumbled to $483 million last year versus $791 million in 2019, according to data from the Chinese Customs Office, Read more

HAVANA, Aug. 19th Cuba received 23 tons of health supplies on Tuesday from China to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more

HAVANA,  May 19th  China and Cuba on Tuesday, May 12 accelerated a project that will create the first joint biotechnological park to research, Read more

HAVANA, May 3th  A batch of medical supplies donated by former Chinese students in Cuba and several companies in that country is being processed by the Ministry of Public Health for distribution in hospitals coping with the coronavirus. Read more

HAVANA, March 22th The government of China is preparing a donation for Cuba to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, Read more

HAVANA, Oct 27 (PL ) People in China and Japan are learning about Cuba’s attractions through images of emblematic sites and promotional events that are part of a tribute to the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana.

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HAVANA, July 31th Cuban and Chinese universities are moving forward with the creation of a joint…

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HAVANA, July 14th  (Reuters)  Cuba’s first new train passenger cars in more than four decades set off on their maiden…

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HAVANA, July 5th Cuba’s Ministry of Tourism has bought ads plastered across buses in Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou encouraging Chinese tourists to visit  Cuba,…

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HAVANA, May 29th (Forbes) Over the last 18 years, China has written off around $9.8 billion in debt to other countries. Cuba accounts for over half of it.

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HAVANA, April 18th Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua  said on Tuesday that an affiliate of Chinese oil major CNPC, Great Wall Drilling, was drilling for oil off Cuba’s coast as part of a joint venture with state-owned oil firm Cuba Petroleum Company (CUPET).

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) and Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro (R) meet in Havana, September 25, 2016.

HAVANA, Feb. 6th Thousands of Chinese living in Havana’s Barrio Chino will welcome closer relations between Cuba and China.
Chinese first settled in Cuba 170 years ago. And their influence is still strong.

Both countries are socialist and China is Cuba’s second largest trading partner.

Many Chinese Cubans have a strong affinity with their ancestral Read more

 havana-live-BYDHAVANA,  July 3  When Cubans open the flood gates to American tourists, the modern, electric vehicle fleets they see on the roads alongside the tradition cars from the 1950s would have been built in China and not Japan, not the U.S.

On Friday, Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD (Build Your Dreams) said it will supply Cuba’s tourism industry with something like 719 EV sedans. The order was signed in Havana on July 3 between Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, Wang Chuanfu, BYD CEO, and Xu Qin, Mayor of Shenzhen where BYD is located.

Cuba is buying a fleet of fuel efficient cars to support its growing tourist industry. The order for its first 719 vehicles will be Cuba’s first fleet of tourist rental vehicles and BYD’s largest vehicle order in the Cuban market.
BYD said in a statement that all vehicles in the fleet will be BYD models, namely the sedans Suri, L3 and G6, the SUV S6, and the MPV M6.

BYD’s press office could not be reached for further comment.

BYD first appeared in the Cuban market last November with its F3 sedan and S6 SUV during the Havana International Expo. The S6 model won the Exhibition’s Design Award.
The Cuban government purchased 40 BYD passenger cars last year for tourism, but the Diaz said Cuba might eventually expand its order for government official vehicles. The retail market has not been developed.
BYD said it will build an after-sales service center in Cuba at some point in the near-future.

BYD’s claim to fame began when Warren Buffet announced he acquired a 10% stake in the company through his investment firm Berkshire Hathaway in September 2008. Since then, the stock listed on the Hong Kong exchange is up 355.05%. It’s up 33.3% year-to-date, beating Toyota and Tesla.

BYD got its start in the 1990s as a mobile phone battery maker. It has since evolved into producing hybrid and electric vehicles, with most of its bus line products being acquired by northern European governments.

The group plans to take on Tesla in the electronic car and EV battery market, backed by the smarts and the financial muscle of Buffet to make it happen.

Beyond Cuba, China’s recent green initiatives, including higher taxation on polluting industries, bodes especially well for BYDs future. Shanghai police recently placed orders for BYD sedans.
At a simple stroke of the Chinese government’s pen, BYD could be firing on all four cylinders if state and municipal governments opted to replace taxis or diesel fuel burning busses with BYD vehicles.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/07/03/in-clean-car-race-china-beats-prius-tesla-to-cuba/