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Made in China 2025

Back to the future: how eastern China’s factory hub fuels tech sovereignty quest

Start-ups rise fast where traditional manufacturing once ruled – powering Beijing’s innovation and self-reliance push.

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Apple

Apple joins China’s subsidy scheme to lift sales amid heated local competition

China technology

Anker, Romoss recall over 1.2 million power banks amid fire risks

Alibaba

Alibaba folds delivery app and travel agency into e-commerce group

CEO Eddie Wu said the restructuring ‘marks a strategic upgrade from an e-commerce platform to a comprehensive consumer platform’.

Alibaba’s food delivery service Ele.me previously operated under the company’s Local Services Group. Photo: Simon Song
Alibaba’s food delivery service Ele.me previously operated under the company’s Local Services Group. Photo: Simon Song
Blockchain

Hong Kong Web3 group issues blueprint for accelerating blockchain development

Web3 Harbour, in collaboration with PwC Hong Kong, will launch five action groups in August on stablecoins, funds and other critical segments.

TikTok

TikTok ‘continues to work with’ Vance on deal as its US fate remains uncertain

TikTok said it was ‘grateful’ for Trump’s deadline extension to September 17, which would allow it to keep serving its 170 million US users.

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TikTok

TikTok’s fate still in limbo as Trump extends deadline to sell its US operations

Analyst assessments reflect the uncertainty on whether Trump can – or will – keep extending the TikTok ban.

TikTok has been expanding overseas amid turmoil in the US, its largest market, where it has about 170 million users. Photo: Reuters
TikTok has been expanding overseas amid turmoil in the US, its largest market, where it has about 170 million users. Photo: Reuters
Electric & new energy vehicles

Exclusive | SemiDrive to supply cockpit chips in European EVs as Chinese firms go global

‘Striving to be a top global chip supplier, we need to expand from the China market to the global market,’ general manager Eugene Wang says.

Robotics

China’s robotics market set to double in four years: Morgan Stanley

Robotics is a key part of the Made in China 2025 initiative, launched a decade ago to position the country at the forefront of hi-tech industries.

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US-China tech war

Taiwan blacklists leading chipmakers Huawei, SMIC amid US-China tech rivalry

The move will further tighten existing loopholes and curb collaboration between Chinese firms on the entity list and Taiwanese tech leaders.

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Taiwan is closing more loopholes to prevent mainland Chinese chipmakers from gaining new advantages. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong plans new AI supercomputing centre to boost tech hub status

The facilities will provide computing power for the Greater Bay Area and beyond, says innovation chief Sun Dong during a tech show in Paris.

Sun Dong, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, speaks at the VivaTech fair in Paris on Friday. Photo: Xinmei Shen
Sun Dong, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, speaks at the VivaTech fair in Paris on Friday. Photo: Xinmei Shen
Automotive industry

Hong Kong to allow drones with higher payloads to boost low-altitude economy

Laws and regulations are being amended to promote the development of the low-altitude economy, deputy financial secretary says.

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Ant Group

Ant International and Ant Digital to seek stablecoin licences in Hong Kong

The two Ant units’ move aligns with its global ambitions as other companies, including rival JD.com, line up to issue fiat-backed cryptocurrencies.

Blockchain

With early stablecoin law, Hong Kong looks to keep edge as finance hub

Hong Kong is looking to ‘secure a leading role in global payment systems’, one analyst says, as law comes ahead of a similar US stablecoin bill.

A view of Hong Kong’s central business district on October 9, 2024. Some analysts see the city’s new stablecoin law as providing advantages for maintaining its position as a finance hub. Photo: May Tse
Artificial intelligence

iFlytek says using local chips in AI models extends development time by 3 months

Liu’s comments show how some Chinese tech companies are determined to improve their AI capabilities without access to Nvidia chips.

Huawei’s Ascend 910 chip is displayed during the 2023 PT Expo China show. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Huawei’s Ascend 910 chip is displayed during the 2023 PT Expo China show. Photo: Shutterstock Images
China manufacturing

China plans to turn Shenzhen into AI and aviation hub amid US sanctions

Beijing is deepening reforms to accelerate the development of emerging industries in the Chinese tech hub, which faces a barrage of US trade curbs.

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Semiconductors

Chinese academy launches automated system to speed up chip design

The system, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, uses AI for semiconductor design, dispensing with the need for human developers.

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Semiconductors

A quantum leap: Chinese institute begins photonic chip production

Photonic chips are a critical hardware component for quantum computing and high-speed optical communications.

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The campus of Shanghai JiaoTong University. One of its affiliated institutes has begun production of photonic chips. Photo: AFP
The campus of Shanghai JiaoTong University. One of its affiliated institutes has begun production of photonic chips. Photo: AFP
Business of climate change

China’s solar panel makers seek antidote to market ills as glut, price war, tariffs bite

Market players should aim for technological innovation, enabling higher profit margins and sustainable growth, GCL founder Zhu says.

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US-China trade war

Chinese premier urges faster tech applications amid US export controls

China needs to move swiftly to turn new technologies into real-world products, Premier Li Qiang says.

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Robotics

China turns to robots for elderly care with national pilot programme

Amid a demographic crisis, the government is encouraging the use of robots to care for senior citizens in institutional and home settings.

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A senior resident at a nursing home in Shenzhen interacts with a humanoid robot. Photo: Xinhua
Start-ups

Hong Kong backs start-ups at VivaTech show in push for European market

Local start-ups from HKSTP and Cyberport will appear at the Hong Kong Tech Pavilion at VivaTech from June 11 to 14.

Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan visits the booth of a local tech company at VivaTech in Paris, on May 24, 2024. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan visits the booth of a local tech company at VivaTech in Paris, on May 24, 2024. Photo: Handout
DJI

China’s top drone maker DJI comes down to earth with launch of robotic cleaner

Shenzhen-based DJI will introduce a combo vacuum-mopping robot this month, a project that has been in development for four years.

Artificial intelligence

RedNote says its new open-source AI model bests DeepSeek in Chinese

The company, known for its Instagram-like platform, on Friday unveiled dots.llm1, a mixture-of-experts large language model.

Robotics

Beijing academy unveils ‘RoboBrain’ AI model for China’s humanoids

The launch comes amid efforts to leverage rapidly advancing AI technology to improve the capability of robots.

Visitors watch a robot performing during the world robot carnival in Wuhan this week. Photo: Xinhua
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Tech Trends

DeepSeek rival MiniMax says its first AI reasoning model halves compute of R1

MiniMax-M1 consumes half the resources and has a context window 10 times the size of DeepSeek-R1, according to the start-up. Photo: Shutterstock

China Economy

Back to the future: how eastern China’s factory hub fuels tech sovereignty quest

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Tech War

Huawei, SMIC struggle to advance chips to 5-nm level, MateBook shows: report

The logo of Huawei seen at the Viva Technology conference at Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris on June 12. Photo: Reuters

Big Tech

Alibaba Cloud to bring AI capabilities to global data centres this year

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Liu Weiguang, senior vice-president of Alibaba Cloud, speaks on stage during a company event in Shenzhen on Tuesday. Photo: Handout

China Business

China’s BYD expands car-carrier fleet in bet on EV exports

BYD’s Changsha and Xi’an can each carry 9,200 vehicles. Photo: Weibo/白菜研究所Jarvis
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