Category: Industry News
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Rules Coming for Push Notification Popups
A draft regulation on internet popup push services is out for comment: no malicious gossip or vulgar content, no hijacking the close button, ads clearly labelled and one-tap closable, and no profiling minors with algorithms.
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Building One National Computing Network
Eight national hub nodes, whole-system layout instead of scattered builds, and green power in the west: the plan aims to stop duplicate data centre construction and cut the energy bill.
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Eight in Ten Say They’ve Been ‘Ripened’ by Big Data
A Beijing consumer association survey: 86.91% of respondents believe they have been charged more as a loyal customer, and 82.37% think big-data price discrimination is widespread. 14 of 32 test purchases showed different prices for new and old accounts.
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Building the Ground Rules for the Platform Economy
Nine departments have set out how platform growth and regulation should balance. The framework turns on four relationships: between platforms, between platforms and merchants, with users, and with regulators.
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China’s Internet Users Reach 1.032 Billion
The 49th statistical report: 73.0% penetration, 28.5 hours online per week per user, short-video usage at 90.5%, and online health consultations up 38.7% in a year.
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Central Spending on Science Rose 7.2% While Overall Spending Fell
Total central expenditure fell 0.9% in 2021, but science and technology spending rose 7.2% to RMB 320.6 billion, with basic research up 15.3%.
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Connected-Car Security Is Still Climbing the Hill
More than 2,000 connected-car vulnerabilities are on record. The weak point is not self-driving algorithms but the basics — communications, storage and authentication built in from the start.
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How a Major Operator Is Laying Out the National Computing Hubs
794 data centres and 500,000 racks today, weighted 80% to the eastern hubs. The plan: 85% by 2025, and the east-west split moving from 7:3 to 6:4.
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Digital Transformation Sweeps Chinese Factories
A spinning mill cuts staffing per 10,000 spindles from 50 to under 15. A steel line cuts emergency stops 20%. The national figures behind the cases: 55.3% numerical control, 74.7% digital design tools.
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Information Literacy in the Digital Age
888 million people watch short video and 638 million watch livestreams in China. Knowledge has never travelled this cheaply — the new skill is telling the good from the noise.