From Network Security to Data Security
This year's policy agenda put data security alongside network security. The proposals on the table cover digital infrastructure, connected cars, the metaverse and even how to recycle old devices without leaking data.
Scaling Up 5G Applications, On Time
5G now covers 15 of 20 economy categories and 39 of 97 industry classes. The pilots are done; the task now is making the applications pay for themselves at scale.
What Eleven Years of GSMA Awards Say About Network Infrastructure
Across 22 awards from 2012 to 2022, traditional vendors took 15. Huawei alone took 7. But the interesting signal is the four wins by open, virtualised architectures since 2017.
Regulator Tightens Rules on Forced App Downloads
Browsers that refuse to show the full article until you install the app are being told to stop. The new guidance sets three concrete lines for how sites may prompt a download.
Algorithms and the Human Cost of Efficiency
China has nearly 200 million flexible workers, about a quarter of them platform couriers. A management professor argues that algorithm-driven management has rebuilt Taylorism — and that the fix is not better math but management that leaves room for people.
Science Communication on Short Video Needs More Than Solo Researchers
China has 880 million short-video users, and science content is drowning among the rest. The proposals: make room for researchers, tilt the algorithm toward quality, and set an entry bar.
New Court Rules for Online Consumption Disputes
From 15 March, terms like 'signing for the goods counts as accepting their quality' and 'the seller holds final interpretation rights' are invalid as a matter of law. Live-stream selling also gets clear liability rules.
Industry Ministry Surveys Manufacturers to Steady Growth
January data signalled a steady start — EV output up 130%, manufacturing PMI above 50 for three months. The ministry is now surveying key industries and preparing support measures for SMEs.
The Industrial Internet Starts to Deliver for SMEs
Of 154 million registered market entities, over 99% are small and medium firms. Industrial internet platforms — more than 150 of them, serving 1.6 million industrial enterprises — are becoming their on-ramp to digitalisation.
Chinese Academy of Sciences Publishes Carbon Action Plan
The plan sets technology milestones for 2025, 2030 and 2060, and organises the work into eight programmes and 18 key tasks across energy, industry, transport and carbon sinks.
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