In a quest to upgrade the surveillance systems, China has implemented facial recognition technology across sixteen regions of the country. Supposedly, the system can scan over China’s population which is about 1.4 billion in 1…
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China Issues Its First Official Drone Delivery Permit
China’s largest logistics firm, SF Express, announced today that its subsidiary, Fengyu Shuntu Technology, has officially received the first permit in China to aerially deliver packages. According to Quartz, the company has gone through a…
China Focus: Technology a game changer in solving China’s cold cases
NANJING, March 28 (Xinhua) — A man’s decomposed body parts were found in an open space in Kunshan, east China’s Jiangsu Province, in December 2011. Police collected DNA samples at the scene, hoping the evidence…
China’s Fosun aims to invest $3.2 billion in technology over three years
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Acquisitive Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, which owns Club Med and a stake in Cirque du Soleil within its broad portfolio, aims to invest at least 20 billion yuan ($3.2 billion) in…
China will publicly shame jaywalkers using facial-recognition technology – then send a fine over text
JAYWALKERS in China are to be named, shamed, and slapped with an instant SMS fine. And it’s all thanks to cutting-edge artificial intelligence. China shamed 13,930 jaywalkers in less than a year by flashing their…
China Unicom Builds its Largest DDoS Protection Cloud with Genie
TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, China Unicom has announced to partner with Genie Networks to deploy GenieATM systems on the domestic backbone to build its largest DDoS protection and mitigation system. The…
Parts of China are using facial recognition technology that can scan the country’s entire population in one second
Stxteen areas in China are using facial-recognition technology that can reportedly scan the country’s population in one second, and the world’s population two seconds. Over the last two years the system has been used to…
KKR plans to hike investment in technology, consumer sector
Private equity investment firm KKR & Co plans to boost investment in China with a focus on technology and consumer-related sectors and will set up a new technology fund in the country, according to a…
Trump moves toward China tariffs in warning shot on technology transfer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump lit a slow-burning fuse on Thursday to launch long-promised anti-China tariffs, but his actions appeared to be more of a warning shot than the start of a full-blown…
China can be a standard bearer for technology
ZHI SHUPING, head of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine, said in a recent interview that standards will play a key role in promoting the quality of Chinese products. Beijing News comments:…
China warns against ‘trade war,’ appeals for cooperation
Washington accuses China of flooding global markets with unfairly low-priced steel and other goods and stealing or pressuring foreign companies to hand over technology. “The business community has always supported the idea that open market…
China’s OPPO embraces Xiaomi’s flash sale gambit to grow Indian base
OPPO, which launched a new flagship smartphone on Monday in India – its biggest market outside China – plans to woo buyers with an online flash sale for the device on April 2. Similar marketing…
Put China Mobile in Your Pocket
China Mobile’s CHL 2017 results were broadly in line with expectations, with service revenue up 7.2%, EBITDA up 5.4%, and net profit up 5.1%. This compares with services revenue growth of 7.1% and EBITDA growth…
