Category: Industry News
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Mandatory ‘Black Boxes’ Add a New Chip Market
Since 1 January 2022, all new passenger cars in China must carry an EDR event data recorder. With penetration at just 7.12% in 2020, the increment market alone could reach RMB 5.5-7.4 billion next year.
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Digital and Green Development Together, for High-Quality Growth
Digitalisation can cut emissions across industry, buildings and transport – but data centres consume 2% of China’s electricity, and data rights, talent and regional gaps stand in the way. Technology and institutional innovation must advance together.
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Intelligent Medical Equipment to Power Smart Healthcare
China’s medical equipment market reached RMB 840 billion in 2020. A new five-year plan calls for 5G-enabled devices, medical robots, smart rehabilitation equipment and home-embedded health sensors.
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Virtual Humans Accelerate Their Reach into Industry
A digital bank clerk that completes full transactions, a livestream anchor that doubled a store’s GMV in six weeks – service-type virtual humans are moving from demos to production across finance and retail.
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Digitalisation Accelerates Industrial Upgrading: Notes from the 2021 China Computer Federation Conference
Over 600 computer scientists and entrepreneurs gathered around one question: how does computing power speed up digital transformation – from smart charging grids to AI music and a national computing network.
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The Information Age’s ‘Last Screen’ May Be Closer Than You Think
From Google Glass to Xiaomi’s smart glasses and Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, AR eyewear is approaching consumer grade – and optical waveguide technology is the key to making it look like ordinary glasses.
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Technology Innovation Unleashes Enormous Economic Momentum
A world-class French mathematician joins Huawei, the deepest 5G network runs 534 metres underground, and photovoltaics transform deserts. 2021 showed how innovation – from basic research to green transition – powers China’s economy.
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The Intelligence Wave Surges: Multiple Investment Themes Face Transformation Opportunity
Intelligent vehicles, energy internet, industrial internet and cloud computing are the core A-share investment lines for 2022 and beyond, analysts say – and the market has already taken notice.
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Five Social Media Trends That Will Shape Business in 2022
Meta sees at least five trends spreading fast: VR/AR in business, social-native interaction, shoppertainment, creator partnerships and video-first expression.
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Every Prefecture-Level City to Have a Science Museum by 2025
China’s science association plans to push every prefecture-level city toward its own science museum, cultivate 5-10 world-class institutions, and add at least 200 rural middle-school science museums.