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People walk past a billboard promoting Tmall’s Singles’ Day sale at a popular shopping district in Beijing on November 10, 2025. Photo: AP
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba to deploy AI ‘digital workforce’ for millions of merchants on Taobao, Tmal

OpenClaw frenzy accelerates shift to autonomous AI, as Alibaba equips merchants with always-on digital workers.

Semiconductors

China’s self-sufficiency drive hits new milestone with powerful RISC-V chips

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Artificial intelligence

OpenClaw effect: explosion in AI token use adds fuel to Chinese AI development

Semiconductors

China’s top chip foundry SMIC unveils growth action plan

Firm aims for above-average growth this year under plan for ‘optimising existing stock and digging for new increments’.

People visit a display of semiconductor device at Semicon China, a trade fair for semiconductor technology, in Shanghai on March 17, 2021. Photo: Reuters
People visit a display of semiconductor device at Semicon China, a trade fair for semiconductor technology, in Shanghai on March 17, 2021. Photo: Reuters
Greater Bay Area

Greater Bay Area trails peers in research despite strong tech potential: report

Southern China cluster of cities lags in basic research and original innovation, with talent gaps adding to challenges, Deloitte says.

Artificial intelligence

Google’s TurboQuant dents memory-chip stocks, but analysts say ‘buy the dip’

Rather than reducing demand for memory chips, the advance could increase it by fuelling more AI applications.

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Mainland China

Meituan posts second consecutive quarterly loss amid instant commerce battle

The Beijing-based company had a challenging 2025 after local e-commerce giant JD.com jumped into food and grocery deliveries.

Meituan food delivery riders gather during a work break in Chongqing on November 21, 2025. Photo: Getty Images
Meituan food delivery riders gather during a work break in Chongqing on November 21, 2025. Photo: Getty Images
Semiconductors

Semicon China: AI, packaging set to drive country’s chip industry growth

China on track to account for nearly half of world wafer capacity in two years, organiser of world’s largest chip industry trade show says.

Pinduoduo

Pinduoduo operator’s profit slides as firm cites higher reinvestment

Results reflect a pivotal year for PDD Holdings, as breakneck growth gives way to more stable pace.

Artificial intelligence

China names Beijing, urban clusters as major tech hubs in self-reliance push

Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang says national capital and its neighbours should become ‘world-class science centre’ at high-profile tech forum.

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This year’s Zhongguancun Forum is themed “Full Integration Between Technological and Industrial Innovation” and more than 1,000 guests from over 100 countries and regions are expected to participate. Photo: Xinhua
Autonomous vehicles

China’s WeRide eyes Hong Kong, Singapore roads for robotaxi services

Company plans to put self-driving taxis and buses on Hong Kong streets this year, while Singapore service starts April 1 through Grab.

WeRide’s planned entry into Hong Kong aims to cover both robotaxis and robobuses. Photo: Getty Images
WeRide’s planned entry into Hong Kong aims to cover both robotaxis and robobuses. Photo: Getty Images
Alibaba

Alibaba debuts what it calls most powerful CPU core of its kind

The launch comes as AI agents are becoming the latest battlefield for Chinese tech companies after OpenClaw took the industry by storm.

Electric & new energy vehicles

3 Chinese EV makers raise prices – but demand slowdown could force reversal

Xiaomi, Chery and FAW adjust prices amid surging chip and raw material costs, but analysts say soft sales could undermine gains.

Artificial intelligence

What is ‘tokenomics’ and how would China gain the edge in an AI era?

As tokens are positioned as the AI era’s commodity, China’s energy scale and low-cost models could give it a structural edge.

Jensen Huang at Nvidia’s annual GTC conference in San Jose, California, on March 17. Photo: AFP
Robotics

Nvidia’s Huang calls China ‘formidable’ in robotics as firm bets on physical AI

China’s microelectronics, motors, rare earth and magnets – which are foundational to robotics – are the world’s best, says Huang.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the company’s global AI conference in San Jose, California, March 17, 2026. Photo: Reuters
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the company’s global AI conference in San Jose, California, March 17, 2026. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

TP-Link’s Chinese founder Jeffrey Chao seeks US$1 million Trump Gold Card visa

The router manufacturer is under investigation over concerns that its links to China may pose an unacceptable threat to US national security.

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Alibaba

Alibaba targets US$100b in annual cloud, AI revenue despite results miss

T-Head, mentioned for the first time in the company’s earnings, has shipped more than 470,000 AI chips as of February.

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Tencent

China’s Tencent pledges new wave of AI investment as it bets on WeChat agents

The tech giant reported a 17 per cent increase in net income last year, in line with analysts’ predictions, as fervour over AI agents grips China.

A man walks past the Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen, in China’s southern Guangdong province. Photo: AFP
A man walks past the Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen, in China’s southern Guangdong province. Photo: AFP
Nvidia

Nvidia is restarting production of China AI chip variant, says CEO

The company had reportedly halted ‌the manufacturing of its H200 chip last year because of increasing regulatory hurdles in the US and China.

Art

Pony Ma’s new museum takes shape in Shenzhen, led by Pi Li

Rong Museum of Art, a flower-like structure within the M80 Campus in Shenzhen’s Houhai district, will open in 2027.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba reshuffles AI units into a new ‘Token Hub’ group, led by CEO Eddie Wu

Intended to increase AI coordination, the group will sit alongside Alibaba Cloud and the company’s e-commerce divisions.

The Alibaba Token Hub Business Group brings all the company’s core AI teams and products together under one umbrella. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors

Precision strike: China targets US, Japan stranglehold on photoresist supply

Essential material for advanced semiconductor processes expected to enter stage of accelerated breakthroughs, major Chinese supplier says.

China is expanding the scope of its chip self-sufficiency drive under the new 15th five-year plan amid an intensified race with the US in advanced chipmaking. Photo: Xinhua
China is expanding the scope of its chip self-sufficiency drive under the new 15th five-year plan amid an intensified race with the US in advanced chipmaking. Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

China AI start-up Moonshot snags funds at US$18 billion valuation

Firm aims to raise US$1 billion, which would more than quadruple its valuation compared with three months ago.

Artificial intelligence

ByteDance said to hold Seedance AI video tool launch after copyright row

Reported moves follows copyright complaints by Disney and other Hollywood studios.

Apple

Apple reduces App Store commissions in China, to applause from Tencent, NetEase

Move has ‘long-term constructive significance for the overall prosperity of China’s mobile app ecosystem’, gaming company NetEase says.

People look at Apple phones in a store in the Huangpu district of Shanghai on January 20, 2026. Photo: AFP
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