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Apple and Huawei are the two-biggest vendors in China’s high-end smartphone segment. Photo: Shutterstock
Smartphones

Huawei premium smartphone shipments surge, as Apple leads segment in China

Mainland shipments of Huawei’s premium-priced smartphones – handsets that cost more than US$600 – rose 34 per cent in the third quarter.

China manufacturing

China to give local products leg up in bids for government contracts

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US-China tech war

US exempts some Chinese firms from chip curbs for Japan, sources say

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China trade

‘In China for China’: global firms go local as trade, tech tensions ramp up

Many businesses are adopting an ‘in China for China’ strategy to stay in the lucrative market while avoiding geopolitical disruptions.

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Global tech firms in China are making their supply chains more localised to protect against unpredictable changes in trade restrictions. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

China’s ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent seek fresh talent at ‘Olympics of AI’

Some of the world’s brightest minds in AI are expected to attend this year’s Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

US-China relations

Trump’s export controls hurting China could rankle US allies: analysts

Sanctions targeting Beijing’s hi-tech progress anticipated as report finds Washington has increasingly used such mechanisms in recent years.

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Semiconductors

China chip supply chain calls for ‘cooperation’ after broader US restrictions

Speakers at a Shanghai conference avoided commenting on the new restrictions, preferring to highlight the value of ‘global cooperation’.

A researcher displays a wafer at Shaanxi Institute of Advanced OEIC Technologies, in Xi’an on March 4, 2024. Photo: Xinhua
Business of climate change

China urges tie-ups for solar firms to navigate tariffs, trade tensions

Commerce ministry official asks companies to seek partnerships in belt and road countries and invest in solar power projects.

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E-commerce

Temu, Shein halt Vietnam operations pending business registration

Two of the world’s most popular budget-shopping platforms have suspended business in the Southeast Asian nation.

General Motors

GM’s China dream fades amid shift to EVs and rise of local rivals

Carmaker is restructuring its operations as it struggles to compete with domestic brands and shift to EVs.

Chinese workers celebrate the first Buick Excelle sedan to roll off the production line at General Motor’s new facility in eastern Shanghai’s Pudong district, in May 2005. Photo: AP Photo
Solar energy

China’s solar industry calls for tougher rules to keep lights on

China’s photovoltaic makers seek stricter market control amid price war and overcapacity, similar to those for the steel and cement industries.

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An employee check solar photovoltaic modules at a factory in Sihong, in Jiangsu province. The sector faces huge overcapacity in China. Photo: AFP
TikTok

TikTok triples US sales on Black Friday despite looming ban

E-commerce sales on the app surged above US$100 million during the post-Thanksgiving shopping extravaganza.

The ‘great green wall’ of China’s largest desert

Artificial intelligence

Did the Chinese intern sued by ByteDance just win an AI award?

The award, however, triggered speculation about whether the paper’s lead author was the ex-intern who ByteDance sued for US$1.1 million.

The award received by ByteDance further boosts its credentials in artificial intelligence technology. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba

Alibaba to sponsor China’s Lunar New Year gala to reach thrifty consumers

The e-commerce giant is sponsoring the most-watched broadcast in the world, as it seeks to revive growth amid tough competition and a slowing economy.

The Spring Festival Gala is considered the most-watched broadcast in the world, pulling in hundreds of millions of viewers each Lunar New Year’s Eve. Photo: Weibo
China economy

How will new SMS partnership add to BeiDou’s Chinese user base?

China Telecom working with phone manufacturers to enable its 423 million mobile users to connect via satellites.

Artificial intelligence

Chinese facial recognition pioneer SenseTime pivots to GenAI

The company hopes to ‘better address the opportunities as well as challenges brought about by the AI 2.0 era’.

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Tencent

Tencent launches its answer to OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool

HunyuanVideo is available for free to enterprise and individual users.

Tencent has launched HunyuanVideo, a text-to-video generation tool. Photo: Screenshot
China's space programme

What’s the state of China’s ‘space economy’ as commercial launches intensify?

Chasing the success of SpaceX, China’s commercial space industry is eyeing lofty gains despite setbacks and technological constraints.

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Technology

Opinion | US tech blind spot risks harming the country’s competitiveness

Policymakers have failed to implement safeguards for tech product safety, while being aggressive towards those at the forefront of discovery.

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China's military weapons

How China, US are using different drone strategies in race for air superiority

World’s top two military powers remain focused on traditional warplanes, but China’s ‘innovative use’ of UAVs could be the difference, analysts say.

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Chinese UAVs on display at the Zhuhai air show in November. China is making drones a key element in asymmetric warfare. Photo: EPA-EFE
Semiconductors

Chip War: Chinese supply chain to be tested under broadened US sanctions

Chinese chip companies have localised much of their supply chain in recent years, experts say, potentially limiting the impact of Washington’s new rules.

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Localisation efforts in China’s semiconductor supply chain may already have insulated companies from the worst effects of Washington’s latest sanctions, experts say. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

China industry bodies call for ‘caution’ in buying US chips amid latest sanctions

This initiative could deal a blow to the mainland businesses of Nvidia, Qualcomm and Intel.

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Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud aims high in Southeast Asia with new AI partners

China’s leading cloud services provider is prioritising investments in its operations across Indonesia, Thailand and other markets.

Renewable energy

China needs new clean-energy tech investments after wind and solar boom

Greater capital is required in areas such as energy storage, hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel.

China is already investing heavily in energy storage, but needs to adopt market-based principles to create more incentives for investors. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China tech war

Chip war: Chinese firms play down fresh US sanctions, tout local supply chain

Newly blacklisted Empyrean and Skyverse say the sanctions will have little impact, pointing to their local tech stack and domestic customers.

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Semiconductor firms newly added to the US Entity List say they will see little impact from the sanctions, as their supply chain is largely localised already. Photo: Reuters
US-China tech war

ASML says US chip curbs on China won’t affect 2025 sales forecast

The Dutch chip equipment maker says it is studying the impact of the new restrictions, but sees little impact on long-term demand.

Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI firms rush out costly ‘reasoning’ models to take on OpenAI’s o1

Alibaba Cloud is the latest among a slew of Chinese firms to roll out the AI models that take more time to reason through maths and programming queries.

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Latest news, features and opinion on China’s technology industry, including AI, the US-China tech war, 5G, smartphone makers and apps, and issues surrounding China’s Great Firewall.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
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