34 h. ago As the PLA adopts civilian technology, Chinese bureaucracy could hinder progress

For decades, China’s talk of letting the private sector bid for defence orders had mostly been just that: talk. State-owned conglomerates had dominated the sector for decades, but in the middle of 2016, Beijing started to step up its military-civilian fusion strategy, publishing an official list of the sectors where private firms were being encouraged to contribute, such as swarming drone technologies. The plan is a central pillar of China’s ambition to develop a modernised military by 2035 and...

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4 d. ago China puts down strong grass roots in first steps to football superpower status

Ten years have passed since President Xi Jinping, who is reported to be a fan of the game, unveiled a plan to make China a “world football superpower” by 2050. Since then, the men’s national team has been overshadowed by its consistently excellent women’s counterpart, while falling in the world rankings from 2016’s 81st place to 94th in April. The scandal-stricken football sector has also become a focus of Xi’s anti-corruption campaign in recent years. Yet China has not missed all its...

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1 week ago Rare earth magnet crisis: India's auto sector to head to Beijing for talks

Rare earth magnet crisis: India's auto sector to head to Beijing for talks  Business Standard

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1 week ago Nvidia ‘considering’ new AI chip for China but rules out Hopper series

Nvidia said a new artificial intelligence (AI) chip for the Chinese market is not ready although it is considering such a plan, as US export controls continue to cloud the outlook for the tech giant in the world’s second largest economy. “The key is to understand the limits and see if we can come up with interesting products that could continue to serve the Chinese market,” Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, 62, said during the company’s post-earnings call on Wednesday. “We don’t have anything...

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1 week ago Shanghai embraces embodied intelligence as it boosts policy support for robotics

Shanghai hosted an embodied intelligence industry conference and a humanoid robotics skills competition on Thursday, as multiple Chinese cities step up efforts to support the burgeoning sector, now a key focus of the nation’s hi-tech ambitions. The Embodied Intelligence Developer Conference, held in Zhangjiang, Shanghai’s hi-tech zone, included forums, corporate exhibits and a “skills” contest featuring humanoid robots. University students competed using robots provided by the organisers in...

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2 w. ago US tightens tech grip, bans key chip software sales to China

US tightens tech grip, bans key chip software sales to China  Interesting Engineering

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2 w. ago Chinese defence oversight official snared in military corruption crackdown

A senior former official at the agency responsible for the oversight of China’s defence industry is under investigation for corruption. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, China’s top anti-graft watchdog, said on Wednesday that Zhang Jianhua was suspected of “serious violations of discipline and law” – a standard euphemism for corruption – and had “turned himself in”. Zhang, formerly deputy head of the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence...

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2 w. ago China’s corruption busters eye key tech sectors as Beijing gears up to challenge US

Crackdown on the big data industry’s heartland in Guizhou may be a mark of the importance the central government places on the sector.

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2 w. ago China’s graft busters eye key tech sectors as Beijing gears up to challenge US

China’s graft busters eye key tech sectors as Beijing gears up to challenge US  South China Morning Post

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3 w. ago China cuts key mortgage rate to spur property market. Is a rebound in sight?

Cuts come amid Beijing’s broader efforts to revive China’s real estate sector, which has been a persistent drag on the economy.

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4 w. ago China hands Tsinghua Unigroup's former chairman suspended death sentence over corruption

China hands Tsinghua Unigroup's former chairman suspended death sentence over corruption  Reuters

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4 w. ago Tencent, Alibaba Results Key to Cementing China Tech Stock Rally

Tencent, Alibaba Results Key to Cementing China Tech Stock Rally  Bloomberg.com

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