In July, China’s State Council issued guidelines on developing AI inside the country and set a goal of becoming a global innovation center for the technology by 2030. Earlier this month, investment bank Goldman Sachs…
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EU Chamber warns China: Open economy faster or risk backlash
American authorities also are investigating whether Beijing should face penalties for pressuring companies to hand over technology in exchange for market access. A survey earlier by the U.S.-China Business Council found 20 percent of companies…
China tops the world in incubators, makerspaces
China’s 7,500-plus incubators and makerspaces have fostered more than 223,000 businesses as of 2016, according to data from Torch High Technology Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology. China has become the…
Breakthrough technology puts China in elite science club
China celebrated a major scientific breakthrough on August 28, 2017, when the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) produced its first neutron beam. The CSNS will provide powerful support to high-value scientific projects and seeks to…
De-Escalating the U.S.-China Technology Trade War
For more than a decade, China and the United States have been engaged in a game of tit-for-tat technology protectionism, which now threatens to escalate into a wider high-tech trade war. If executed properly, the…
Struggle for foreign brands in China spreads to provinces
Multinationals are losing market share in China to domestic rivals as the quality and marketing of home-made goods become more sophisticated, according to our latest brand survey. This trend is particularly notable in third-tier cities.…
Trump’s top negotiator brands China an ‘unprecedented’ threat to global trading system
China’s economic model represents an “unprecedented” threat to the world trading system that can not be addressed under current global rules, President Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator said. “There is one challenge on the current…
China plans 4-month crackdown to protect foreign investors’ intellectual property rights
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s commerce ministry on Monday uneveiled a four-month crackdown, running from September until the end of 2017, to protect the intellectual property rights of companies with foreign investors. In a statement on…
China’s robotic revolution in full swing
When President Xi Jinping visited the Institute of Advanced Technology under University of Science and Technology of China in Heifei, Anhui province, on April 26, he was greeted by a human-like robot named “Jia Jia”.…
China hit by financial scam ‘epidemic’
Li Wenxing was starting a new life. In May, the young university graduate left his home in rural China on the offer of work with a software company in the city of Tianjin. But the…
This Jack Ma-Founded Startup Is Set to Have a Major IPO This Year
ZhongAn, China’s first online-only insurance company, announced an initial public offering in Hong Kong in which it plans to raise up to $1.5 billion for a potential valuation of $10 billion. The share sale will…
China and India water ‘dispute’ after border stand-off
A year ago, China blocked a tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo river as part of its most expensive hydro project, Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported. The news came just when Indian media were suggesting…
China’s luxury car market: Second-tier brands gain ground
The first half of 2017 was an exciting time for luxury automakers in China. Sales growth remained solid, but competition heated. Audi, the long-time luxury king in China, lost its throne to Mercedes-Benz and BMW.…
