A color picture captured by China’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe shows the planet’s North Pole (XINHUA) China has become the second country in the world to successfully land and operate a rover on Mars. The …
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China fund managers embrace robots as competition intensifies
Chinese fund managers, grappling with a rapidly-growing list of publicly-traded securities and mountains of data, are rapidly embracing machine learning and other types of artificial intelligence (AI) …
Microsoft pushes into the growing grocery tech market with a new deal in China
Microsoft’s China arm announced a strategic partnership with Chinese retail tech company Hanshow on cloud-based software for store operators worldwide.
Has China banned cryptocurrency?
Cryptocurrencies could unify an already globalized world, but fears over illegality in the market have led China to ban the trade and use of Bitcoin.
China Unicom (00762) gains 6.713m 5G subscribers in Apr
Limited (00762) said for April 2021, it had 309.478 million mobile billing subscribers. The net addition was 0.185 million. Out of the mobile billing subscribers, there were 98.565 million 5G …
Pentagon needs smarter shoppers to outpace China
China is continuing to close the technology gap, in large part through stealing intellectual property from U.S. private-sector firms.
China tells UN Africa needs more support in fighting Covid-19
International community ‘should give more help in pandemic prevention materials, medical supplies, technology and funds’, Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells UN meeting.
Past, present and future: The evolution of China’s incredible high-speed rail network
China has built the world’s largest dedicated high-speed rail network, revolutionising long-distance travel across this vast and diverse nation. But there’s still plenty more ground to cover.
US-China tech war: TSMC helps make breakthrough in semiconductor materials that could push back the ‘end’ of Moore’s Law
In a race to own a key piece future technology, TSMC helped to make a breakthrough with the potential make chips smaller than 1nm, widening the capability gap with the mainland.
Biden Delays Revamp of Trump Blacklist for China Investments
President Joe Biden’s administration plans to delay by two weeks a ban on new U.S. investments in certain Chinese companies, as officials draft guidance to clarify a Trump-era policy that confused …
China must overhaul vast power grid if it’s serious about tackling climate change: analysts
Beijing says by 2030 it will force grid operators to buy at least 40 per cent of their energy from non-fossil fuel sources.
China science, technology news summary — May 19
The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China. SPACE STATION. China’s space station core module Tianhe has recently comp …
Huawei, Unicom deepen 5G alliance
China Unicom, a leading Chinese telecom operator, is deepening its partnership with Huawei Technologies Co. by jointly unveiling a 5G evolution technology plan for the next five years. Ma Hongbing, …
