China’s first AI image processing chip for 8K TV was released by Hisense on Tuesday in Beijing, which is seen by government officials as a milestone in the country’s development of key TV technologies …
Monthly Archives For January 2022
China’s Startups Attract Record Funding Despite Tech Clampdown
Unlike in previous years, when most Chinese tech funding went to internet startups in e-commerce, the bulk of the money in the past year headed into areas that hew more closely to Communist Party …
China’s megaconstellation project establishes satellite cluster in Chongqing
A group leading China’s national low Earth orbit communications megaconstellation has founded two new firms to help develop the project, but overall plans remain vague.
China builds ‘artificial moon’ to simulate low gravity inspired by a levitating frog
The artificial moon is only 60 centimetres in diameter but could be crucial in helping spacecraft explore the larger one …
China’s Rules on Algorithms are Promising; the Devil is in the Details
China just completed its draft of new rules to regulate how companies use algorithms, which will take effect on March 1.
China eyes advanced machinery to achieve self-sufficiency in agriculture
China is poised to beef up efforts of developing advanced agricultural technology and becoming more independent and powerful amid international competition, senior agricultural officials and experts …
China Local Land Sales Fall Just as Beijing Calls for Spending
Most Chinese local governments saw revenue from land sales fall in 2021, damaging their budgets just as Beijing calls for faster spending to counteract a housing-market slowdown and pull the economy …
China’s Digital Currency and Authoritarianism
China is the first major economy to develop and implement a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Its CBDC has many names:/Electronic Payment (DCEP), the digital …
Economic Watch: China’s auto sales up 3.8 pct in 2021
China’s auto sales in 2021 rose 3.8 percent year on year to 26.28 million units, ending a downward trend that began in 2018, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) showed …
China Testing Entire City of 14 Million for COVID a Second Time, Suspends Trains, Buses
Tianjin’s population of 14 million will have to be tested for COVID-19 for the second time as nearly 100 new cases were reported on Sunday. The cases were found during initial screenings conducted …
China resumes dragon fruit imports at border gate
China has resumed imports of fresh fruits, including dragon fruit, through the Hekou-Kim Thanh border gate that straddles the Chinese province of Yunnan and the Vietnamese province of Lao Cai.
Covid-19: Chinese woman stuck in lockdown with blind date
A swift Covid-19 lockdown in China has reportedly led to a woman getting stuck at the house of a man she met on a blind date. A woman, only identified as Ms Wang, posted on…
China and Taiwan: A really simple guide to a growing conflict
China sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be part of the country again. However, Taiwan sees itself as an independent country, with its own constitution and …
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