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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday hailed his country's technological progress in areas such as artificial intelligence and semiconductors while once again insisting his country would annex self-ruled Taiwan. During his New Year's Eve address broadcast Wednesday evening by state media, Xi praised the country's advancements in key sectors including military tech and space exploration. Images ranging from humanoid robots performing kung fu to new hydropower projects rolled on the screen as he spoke. We sought to energize high-quality development through innovation, Xi said while thanking Chinese people for contributing to the country's economic growth over the past five years. China plans its economic development over periods of five years and is preparing to discuss its new five-year plan at the upcoming legislative session in March. The country is set to speed up self-reliance in science and technology as the United States imposes increasingly tight controls on access to ...

Major Chinese companies including Alibaba and ByteDance have already reached out to Nvidia this week about purchasing the H200 and are keen to place large orders

In September this year, Dutch authorities seized Nexperia, a chipmaker owned by Chinese firm Wingtech, citing fears that key research and intellectual property would be moved to China

Beijing's support for so-called embodied artificial intelligence has boosted the domestic robotics sector, while vast tech and electric vehicles supply chains have driven down costs

China's Commerce Ministry issued new documents on rare earth export controls which couldn't be opened using MS Word or any other American word processor but only with homegrown software, WPS Office

China has reportedly directed its biggest technology firms, including ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent, to stop buying Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips and cancel existing orders

The three-day event hosted in the Chinese capital is the latest showcase for the nation's challengers to Tesla Inc and other US companies developing products in the emerging field of advanced robotics

China has sent official notices to firms urging them to avoid Nvidia's H20 chips in national security projects, citing backdoor risks and pushing for local chip adoption

Chinese space tech firm Space Pioneer passes critical test of its redesigned Tianlong-3 rocket after a year of its launch accident. It has set a tentative launch date for July-August 2025

China looks at international experience less as a brain drain and more as a way for researchers to acquire knowledge before returning home, a Stanford paper said

Tiptoeing around sensitive topics like state subsidies, eight tech executives who addressed reporters downplayed the impact of a yearslong US campaign to curtail China's technological ascent

Oppo Mobiles India was flagged by its auditor for a negative net worth of ₹3,551 crore as of FY24. Realme India was pulled up for procedural lapses and inadequate record-keeping during the period

Currently available only in China, the second-generation Android tablet from OnePlus features a massive 13.2-inch 3.4K LCD display of a 144Hz adaptive refresh rate

What is the Qwen3 AI model introduced by Alibaba, and how does it compare to its AI rivals?

Baidu was thrust into the spotlight last week after online users accused the teenage daughter of Baidu vice president Xie Guangjun of posting personal information of other users

Manus is an advanced AI agent designed to think, plan, and execute real-world tasks on its own. It can create websites, plan trips, analyse stocks, and much more-just from a single user prompt

In the near-term, however, DeepSeek's AI breakthrough and this month's rare meeting between President Xi and tech business leaders have boosted investor sentiment

Index heavyweight Alibaba surged 3.3 per cent to a near three-year high after state media CCTV showed Xi and Alibaba founder Jack Ma shaking hands at the meeting on Monday

Chinese tech leaders have lauded DeepSeek's disruptive potential, with one reportedly stating that China should have confidence in 'eventually winning the AI war with the US'

The Chinese startup claims that its system had been targeted with large-scale malicious attacks. The startup's status page also shows problems with its API earlier in the day and on Sunday