Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021

Chemical raw materials profits rose 49.2% in the first nine months of 2026 while Chinese POE plants came onstream one after another. The constraint is no longer capital or catalyst but the polymerization process engineers who can commission a line.

Nonferrous profits rose 79.7% in the first nine months while global mine output headed for its first annual decline since 2017. Sinomine alone is hiring 15 expatriate metallurgical engineers. Zambia's local content rules are now law, and they raise the capability threshold

China's mandatory module efficiency standard arrives on 1 January 2027. About 400GW of capacity faces retrofit or retirement, and the BC route sits 0.3 points above TOPCon.

A 2026 global survey found 76% of hiring managers have met fabricated employment details. This report sets out the legal boundary of background screening in China, the judgments that define it, and what a compliant check should actually cover.