This year I visited my hometown, Shiyan in Hubei, for the first time in eight years. The small city of three million or so people, deep in the Chinese interior, also happens to be a major manufacturing centre for heavy trucks. Ride a bus in Shiyan and you pass factories making axles, radiators, tyres – everything you need to build trucks. Both the production and use of those trucks are polluting and carbon-emitting. By the end of 2025, China had…
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