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As China bets on tech and innovation to drive its growth, it has placed its chips on several industrial sectors that are expected to play increasingly important roles in development and trade, which will bring fresh opportunities and challenges for stakeholders. SCMP’s China Future Tech is your go-to destination for the latest news, insights, and opinions on these select industries. Explore in-depth coverage of EVs, AI, semiconductors, aerospace, robotics and biomedicine sectors. Follow us to stay ahead in China's evolving competitive landscape.

A worker produces chips for mobile phones, cars and LED lighting at a workshop in China’s Jiangsu province. Photo: Future Publishing via Getty Images

Tech

Chinese breakthrough in chip material aims to clear hurdle for next-gen memory

Restricting nitrogen-vacancy movement in wurtzite ferroelectrics looks to improve the reliability of next-generation storage, scientists find.

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As AI floods China’s screens with microdramas, viewers are getting picky

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How US-China tech ties are deepening as RISC-V chips go mainstream

China Economy

Chinese lithium mine registers wider vein, bolstering Beijing’s battery supply

A deposit in Sichuan has registered over 1 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent, adding to China’s stores of the valuable metal.

A worker examines car batteries in a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery in Nanjing in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. Photo: TNS
A worker examines car batteries in a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery in Nanjing in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. Photo: TNS

China Economy

China’s C919 jet faces further delivery delays amid US export chill: analysts

Washington has reportedly restricted exports of aircraft parts to China to gain leverage over Beijing, adding to Comac’s supply pressures.

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Tech War

China’s buying spree in ASML DUV gear prompts US calls for total export ban

DUV tools, though not as advanced as EUV, can be adapted to manufacture 7-nm logic chips and advanced memory for AI processors, report says.

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Policy

AI | China’s AI compute ambitions demand innovation

Expanding China’s intelligent computing capacity fourfold in four years will require advances in power-grid management, domestic chips and software.

China’s AI compute ambitions demand innovation

Tech War

Hong Kong users caught off guard as Anthropic tightens VPN access to Claude

Some tech-savvy users are bypassing the blocks by routing connections through Singapore via VPNs and registering with foreign payment details.

China Economy

Chinese start-up behind laser mosquito killer set to start shipping orders

Photon Matrix Lab says it expects to produce up to 5,000 devices a month initially, and then increase production capacity next year.

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Business

Hong Kong needs new funding model to attract global drug makers: AstraZeneca

The pharmaceutical giant has conducted more than 60 clinical trials worth US$25.5 million in the city over the last three years.

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David Fredrickson, executive vice-president of oncology business at AstraZeneca. Photo: Jonathan Wong

China Business

China carmakers eye record 12 million global sales in 2026 as EV demand surges

Buoyant overseas sales could also cushion against a weak domestic market, which slumped 20 per cent in the first eight months of the year.

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Visitors inspect an electric car made by China’s BYD at the Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show, July 30, 2026. Photo: EPA
Visitors inspect an electric car made by China’s BYD at the Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show, July 30, 2026. Photo: EPA

Big Tech

Huawei steps up Tau chip roll-out, with Mate XT 2 on track for 1 million sales

The Chinese tech giant plans to use its self-developed advanced chips across the new Mate 90 series as it overcomes stringent US tech curbs.

Big Tech

Anthropic raises alarm over Chinese GLM-5.3 model’s elite hacking ability

The open-weight AI model almost matches Claude Mythos for cyber capabilities, but has far weaker safeguards, Anthropic says.

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China EVs

Tesla audits Chinese suppliers, China outlines 2030 battery goal: 7 EV reads

From VW and Gotion deepening ties to CATL’s trial production in Hungary, here are seven EV stories you may have missed.

This photo taken on March 12, 2021 shows a worker handling lithium ion car batteries at a factory in Nanjing, China’s eastern Jiangsu province. Photo: AFP

Tech Trends

DeepSeek opens tools to help Huawei chips supplant Nvidia in AI

With introduction of suite of six tools, AI model developer aims to create ‘independent’ software ecosystem for AI processors.

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Huawei’s CloudMatrix 384 system with Ascend 910 AI processors is displayed at the World Internet Conference in Tongxiang, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, on November 8, 2025. Photo: Reuters
Huawei’s CloudMatrix 384 system with Ascend 910 AI processors is displayed at the World Internet Conference in Tongxiang, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, on November 8, 2025. Photo: Reuters

Tech Trends

Chinese biopharma’s global expansion

Chinese developers of innovative drugs are tying up with industry giants to accelerate overseas growth, raise funds and share risks.

Science

Biomedicine | China’s CAR-T cell therapy cancer breakthrough shows progress

Having played a pivotal role in the ‘astonishing’ growth of personalised cancer treatment, China this year became the first country in the world to approve its use on solid tumours.

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China Business

Wuxi AppTec’s upbeat business update boosts stock despite US bill

A presentation persuaded investors that risk of a potential US blacklisting is low while growth in some business areas is ‘unprecedented’.

Shares in Chinese drug research and development group Wuxi AppTec closed up 23.9 per cent on Friday, the most since its listing in 2018. Photo: Reuters
Shares in Chinese drug research and development group Wuxi AppTec closed up 23.9 per cent on Friday, the most since its listing in 2018. Photo: Reuters

Big Tech

China Telecom say AI model with 1 trillion parameters trained with Chinese chips

The state-owned telecoms operator did not reveal what chips it used for its 1 trillion-parameter model, but it has a partnership with Huawei.

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Tech War

Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou back at the helm of firm ahead of next smartphone launch

In her latest tenure as rotating chairwoman, Meng is expected to oversee the launch of Huawei’s next flagship 5G smartphone series, the Mate 70.

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China Business

5 Chinese EV makers set monthly sales records as discounts draw buyers

BYD, Li Auto, Xpeng, Zeekr and Leapmotor posted new monthly delivery records in September as new models and promotions proved enticing.

Employees work on an EV production line at a Leapmotor factory in Jinhua, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province, on September 18, 2024. Photo: AFP
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Oppo expects to roll out generative artificial intelligence functions to its 50 million smartphone users by the end of this year. Photo: Shutterstock

Oppo enters tech pact with top EV maker BYD, acquires AI start-up

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OPINION
Zhou Bo

Opinion | Whatever Trump claims, weaponisation of space makes losers of us all

Zhou Bo
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Djoomart Otorbaev

Opinion | China is no longer just the world’s factory. It’s the HQ

Djoomart Otorbaev
Tan Poh Hwee

Opinion | How Chinese firms can avoid a Europe-style backlash in Southeast Asia

Tan Poh Hwee
Quentin Parker

Opinion | Don’t let AI take over our human creative expression

Quentin Parker
Ravi Kant

Opinion | China is leveraging its diaspora to boost the economy, unlike India

Ravi Kant
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Dong Lei

Opinion | Xi and Trump face their greatest challenge yet: building US-China trust

Dong Lei
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