Category: Industry News
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Building a ‘Golden Information Bridge’ for SME Financing
A State Council meeting decided to classify enterprises by credit risk for fairer, more effective regulation – a boost for the national financing credit service platform connecting lenders with small businesses.
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Paid Knowledge Packages Should Not Be Traps
Renewal season is here for paid-knowledge apps. But refunds are hard to get, content is often padded, and auto-renewal defaults trap subscribers – problems the fast-growing sector must fix.
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Internet of Vehicles: Where the Industry Heads in the 14th Five-Year Period
Smart connected features now ship in over 45% of new vehicles globally, heading toward 60% by 2025. A CAICT white paper maps progress across vehicles, roads, cloud, networks and maps.
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‘Little Giants’ Can Drive Big Innovation
Fourteen specialised SME ‘little giants’ contributed to 13 projects in the 2020 national science and technology awards. Two years of support policies show results – and reveal gaps in talent and financing.
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Industrial Big Data Accelerates Its Fusion with AI Toward Data Intelligence
China’s industrial data intelligence market reached RMB 3.58 billion in 2020 and is forecast to compound at 31.6% through 2025 – but 35% of it is internal, and most vendors still earn under RMB 50 million a year.
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The Chip Shortage Will Last Through 2022
Chip lead times hit 25.8 weeks in December 2021 – the longest since tracking began in 2017. Deloitte expects relief only in early 2023, with losses already past USD 500 billion.
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Apps Banned from Faking Rankings, Volume and Reviews Under Proposed Rules
Draft rules from the cyberspace regulator would ban apps from bot-or-human-driven ranking manipulation, fake downloads and review control – and bar compulsory collection of non-essential personal data.
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Smart Cars Make Sensors the Industry’s New Focus
One Chinese automotive sensor maker sold in 2021 what it had sold in the previous six years combined. As L2 autonomy scales, cameras, millimetre-wave radar and falling-price lidar become the core growth market.
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Digitalisation Is a Systematic Rebuild of the Business Ecosystem
Twenty years of consumer internet changed how China relates to information, goods, services, finance and space. A new book argues the industrial internet is now rewriting the rules of the forest – and grey wolf packs are coming.
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In the Post-Pandemic Era, Medical AI Has Much to Offer
From dynamic disease profiling that won a world internet award to ophthalmic imaging diagnostics, medical AI is moving from lab to clinic – if multi-centre data sharing can catch up.