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Shandong Hits 10,000 Sorties: China’s First Homegrown Carrier Reaches Key Milestone in Naval Aviation
In a landmark achievement for China’s growing naval aviation capabilities, the aircraft carrier Shandong (CV-17), the country’s first domestically built flattop, has surpassed 10,000 aircraft sorties since entering service in December 2019, according to Chinese state media reports. This milestone underscores the rapid evolution of the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) carrier program and its expanding role in long-range maritime operations. The figure includes a wide spectrum of missions, ranging from basic training exercises to full operational deployments. The sortie count represents a key metric in assessing a carrier’s combat readiness and operational efficiency, particularly in terms of aircraft launch-and-recovery ...
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From ICU to Innovation: How NIO and Hefei Are Powering China’s EV Revolution
When visitors step inside NIO’s cutting-edge manufacturing facility in Hefei, they don’t feel like they’re walking through a traditional car plant. Instead, they find themselves immersed in what feels like a living, breathing neural network; clean, quiet, and astoundingly efficient. This is the heart of China’s electric vehicle (EV) innovation wave, and it’s nothing short of transformative. At the core of the plant is “black light” manufacturing, an advanced, partially lightless process where over 941 robots operate with precision and grace. Real-time data streams across digital dashboards, while artificial intelligence governs quality, flow, and production speed like an industrial-grade brain. ...
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JD.com Rolls Out In-Store Tax Refunds for International Shoppers Across 100+ Locations in China
JD.com, China’s largest retailer by revenue, has just taken a major step to enhance the offline shopping experience for global travelers. The company announced the official launch of an in-store tax refund service, now available across over 100 JD locations in 39 Chinese cities, including tourist hotspots like Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou. Targeting foreign visitors shopping in China, JD.com is offering up to 9% tax refunds on eligible purchases of RMB 200 or more made at designated stores. Travelers simply need to present valid identification at one of 106 tax refund-authorized JD MALL and JD Electronics & Appliances ...
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Tiger Brokers Accelerates Growth, Adds Crypto Features to Capture Digital-First Investors
China-based online brokerage firm UP Fintech Holding, more commonly known as Tiger Brokers, continues to deepen its foothold in the digital trading world with aggressive customer acquisition and expanded crypto functionalities. The fintech company recently reported that it has already achieved 40% of its 2025 new customer target within the first quarter of the year, adding 60,900 new funded accounts. This growth brings its total funded user base to over 1.15 million. Tiger Brokers, listed under the ticker TIGR, operates a multi-asset digital trading platform that offers access to global equities, derivatives, IPO subscriptions, and employee stock ownership plans. It ...
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China Aims for Global Metaverse Leadership by 2025
China has officially set its sights on becoming a global leader in metaverse development by 2025. In a strategic move to shape the future of digital interaction and industrial innovation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), alongside other key government agencies, has issued a nationwide call for recommendations on the development of the metaverse. This marks one of the most coordinated and ambitious pushes yet from China to lead in the next generation of digital ecosystems. Unlike Western approaches that often center on consumer-facing applications and entertainment, China’s strategy is heavily focused on industrial and institutional applications of ...
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China’s Hengrui Pharma Advances in Global Obesity Drug Race with Promising Results for HRS9531
A new contender in the global weight-loss drug market is emerging from China. Jiangsu-based Hengrui Pharma, together with its U.S. partner Kailera Therapeutics, has announced encouraging late-stage trial results for HRS9531, an investigational obesity treatment showing comparable efficacy to leading therapies on the market. In a 48-week Phase 3 trial, patients on HRS9531 lost an average of 18% of their body weight, with that number rising to 19% among those who completed the trial. While Eli Lilly’s Zepbound (tirzepatide) demonstrated 21% weight loss in a longer trial, the Hengrui study suggests the potential for higher outcomes, especially since the highest ...
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China’s Open-Source AI Surge Reshapes the Global Innovation Landscape
China’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry is doubling down on open-source large language models (LLMs), signaling a strategic push to accelerate global adoption and foster deeper collaboration among developers, enterprises, and academic researchers. Leading the charge are tech titans like Alibaba and Baidu, alongside rising AI startups such as DeepSeek, all of whom are embracing open-source principles to democratize access to cutting-edge AI tools. This momentum reflects China’s growing confidence in its AI capabilities, as well as a clear intent to shape the next phase of global AI innovation. At the center of this movement is ModelScope, Alibaba’s open-source AI model ...
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China Unveils Quantum-Resistant Blockchain EQAS, Signaling a New Era in Cybersecurity
As the dawn of quantum computing grows closer, the threat it poses to global cybersecurity frameworks becomes more urgent. Now, China may have just taken a major step ahead of the curve. Researchers from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, in collaboration with the Beijing Institute of Technology and Guilin University of Electronic Technology, have announced a breakthrough in blockchain security: the development of EQAS, the Efficient Quantum-resistant Authentication Storage. This new blockchain framework is designed specifically to withstand attacks from quantum computers, whose processing power could soon render current encryption systems obsolete. If widely adopted, EQAS could redefine ...
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China Unveils World’s Largest Rotor Offshore Wind Turbine, Marking Major Leap in Green Tech
In a bold stride toward next-generation renewable energy solutions, Chinese state-owned power giant China Huaneng Group has officially launched the world’s most powerful direct-drive floating offshore wind turbine, featuring the largest rotor diameter globally. The unveiling took place in Fuqing, Fujian Province, East China, and was reported by Xinhua News Agency on Thursday. The turbine boasts a single-unit capacity of 17 megawatts (MW) and a rotor diameter of 262 meters, setting a new global benchmark in offshore wind engineering. With a swept area of around 53,000 square meters, comparable to 7.5 standard soccer fields, the turbine marks a significant milestone ...
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China’s First Autonomous Robot Soccer Tournament Marks Leap Toward AI-Driven Sports Future
In a landmark event that merges entertainment, innovation, and artificial intelligence, China debuted its first fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer tournament in Beijing, signaling a new era in robotics and AI application. The Robo League competition, held in the Yizhuang Development Zone, featured four teams of AI-powered humanoid robots battling it out on the pitch—without a single human operator. Each team fielded three robots and one substitute, playing two ten-minute halves in a game that looked like a blend of science fiction and competitive sport. Unlike traditional robot contests often controlled remotely, this match relied entirely on machine autonomy. The ...
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