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China Future Tech briefing

China Future Tech briefing
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.
With novel chip in Huawei phone, China heads for computing reset
Semiconductors

Semiconductors | With novel chip in Huawei phone, China heads for computing reset

Chinese tech giant’s launch of Mate XT 2 handset is first commercial test of Kirin 9050 Pro, a product of its new chip design paradigm, LogicFolding.

Science

New Energy | China’s solar, wind innovations amid rapid green power buildout

Artificial intelligence

Biomedicine | China thinks big on brain-computer interfaces

Artificial intelligence

Semiconductors | China’s supernodes go mainstream as AI model sizes grow

Giant arrays of AI chips, China’s way around US export curbs on the most advanced silicon, become widely available to meet growing compute needs of models, agents.

China’s supernodes go mainstream as AI model sizes grow
Robotics

Robotics | Chinese robots on the march despite tech war hurdles

Recent US ban on new robots is unlikely to prevent robotics becoming China’s next export engine after electric vehicles.

China airliners

Aerospace | China’s civil aviation ambitions gain some lift

Flagship narrowbody airliner makes international debut, regional jet wins record order, push to fast-track widebody and domestic jet engine projects.

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Robotics

Robotics | Chinese robot co-workers on the rise. Say hello to AI cobots

Collaborative robots designed to operate alongside human workers are a fast-growing market for Chinese firms, with AI making them smarter and more useful.

Chinese robot co-workers on the rise. Say hello to AI cobots
Artificial intelligence

AI | Chinese AI giants, start-ups ready for the agentic web era

With artificially intelligent agents set to become our interface with the digital world, Chinese tech platforms are embedding them and launching AI-native products.

Semiconductors

Semiconductors | Could China’s photonic chips help it leapfrog US on AI?

Light-based chips could take over AI model training and inference from US-made GPUs – and launch next-generation optical computing.

Artificial intelligence

‘We’re all in’: Alibaba’s Joe Tsai makes biggest AI push yet at VivaTech

Tsai lays out Alibaba’s AI playbook: invest across the stack, figure out the winners later.

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai speaks at the VivaTech conference in Paris on June 18. Tsai said the company is investing across the AI value chain rather than betting on a single segment of the market. Photo: Getty Images
Artificial intelligence

AI | AI’s next frontier, world models, and why China is leading

AI models that understand the workings of the physical world and can simulate it will give the technology more human-like powers and drive embodied intelligence.

AI’s next frontier, world models, and why China is ahead of the pack
Science

New Energy | China’s new battery tech set to turbocharge EVs, energy storage

Car batteries that charge in under 10 minutes, innovations in renewable-energy storage – Chinese advances make alternatives to fossil-fuel power more appealing.

Science

Biomedicine | China steps up Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s drug push, looks to TCM

With the most cases of the two leading neurodegenerative diseases, and affected population rising as country ages, China needs to find new treatments.

Artificial intelligence

AI | Chinese AI smart glasses take off with focus on user needs

Longer battery life, real-world use cases and a less-is-more strategy to reduce weight and increase comfort help intelligent eyewear shed novelty image, boost sales.

Chinese AI smart glasses take off with focus on user needs
China manufacturing

China’s airship ambitions progress as first commercial pilots certified at home

The sector is advancing faster than the available talent pool – but officials call licences a ‘breakthrough’ moment.

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An AS700 airship conducts a test flight above the city of Jingmen in central China’s Hubei province. Photo: Xinhua
US-China tech war

AI | AI ecosystems in China and US grow apart amid tech war

China and US have different goals for artificial intelligence and ways of developing it. Washington’s curbs on tech exports have widened the gap between them.

Robotics

AI | China’s physical AI prowess on roads, in skies and factories

Innovation and competition drive rapid advances in Chinese humanoid robots, drones, autonomous vehicles and flying cars. America is playing catch-up.

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Science

Semiconductors | China bets on RISC-V in global AI race

RISC-V, an open-source chip architecture, has gained popularity in China in reaction to widening US restrictions on exports of advanced technology.

China bets on RISC-V in global AI race
Electric & new energy vehicles

EVs | Chinese carmakers gear up for L3 self-driving roll-out

Industry ramps up testing of vehicles with Level 3 autonomous driving capabilities as regulators publish draft safety standards set to take effect in July 2027.

Artificial intelligence

AI | AI to narrow China’s rural-urban economic divide

Farmers, schools and healthcare facilities in rural China are benefiting from policies designed to promote the use of artificial intelligence nationwide.

China’s private sector

Biomedicine | China challenges US in new drugs after industry transformation

Drug makers in China are performing cutting-edge research and licensing products to global giants after a 10-year government push supercharged the industry.

China challenges US in new drugs after industry transformation
Space

Aerospace | Chinese rivals to Musk’s Starlink wrestle with rocket constraints

The slow pace of Chinese rocket launches is hampering efforts to create alternatives to SpaceX’s Starlink and damping the government’s drive to pare reliance on US technology.

Chinese rivals to Musk’s Starlink wrestle with rocket constraints
CES

AI | Humanoid robot guides to hiker exoskeletons: CES 2026 round-up

Chinese companies comprised about one in four exhibitors at the world’s largest electronics expo, and they showcased everything from stair-climbing robot vacuum cleaners to AI-powered pet companions.

Energy storage

New Energy | China AI, mega-batteries stoke renewables power drive

Artificial intelligence, new energy-storage facilities and power lines stretching across the country are helping China boost energy efficiency and take advantage of its renewable power resources.

China's space programme

Aerospace | Lunar race pits China against US as humans seek return to moon

China and the US are vying to put people on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years in a contest that is as much about economics and geopolitics as it is about technology.

Lunar race pits China against US as humans seek return to moon
Artificial intelligence

AI | China chases superintelligent AI without sci-fi movie risks

AI systems with human-level intelligence, or higher, offer the promise of solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges but the risk of humans losing control.

China chases superintelligent AI without sci-fi movie risks
Hong Kong

Aerospace | Flying cars take off as China extends drone-market domination

Chinese electric-vehicle makers are branching into making flying cars, adding to the nation’s booming low-altitude economy.

Wearables

AI | Smart-glasses makers see AI as long-awaited must-have app

Chinese smart-glasses makers, such as Rokid and Alibaba, and global giant Meta are counting on artificial intelligence to kick-start demand for the devices.

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