China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) have jointly launched a national program to accelerate the commercial deployment of humanoid robots, setting a target of integrating more than 10,000 units into the workforce across 100 designated “premium application scenarios” by the end of 2026.
Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba who largely withdrew from public life following the Chinese government’s regulatory crackdown on the company in 2021, has re-emerged in a carefully staged public appearance, planting rice seedlings alongside Alibaba employees at a team-building retreat.
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok and Douyin, is showing no signs of urgency about a public listing despite a valuation that is approaching $1 trillion, a threshold that would make it the most valuable private company in history.
The Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2026 opened its doors on June 24 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, drawing more than 50,000 attendees and over 400 exhibitors for a three-day event running through June 26.
ChangXin Memory Technologies, known by its Chinese acronym CXMT, is preparing for an initial public offering on Shanghai’s STAR Market, an offering analysts expect will be China’s largest semiconductor listing to date.
Alibaba has injected fresh capital into its semiconductor subsidiary T-Head, tripling the unit’s registered capital from 300 million yuan to 1 billion yuan, approximately $148 million, in what the South China Morning Post reports is the first capital increase in more than three years.
Alibaba has taken the unusual step of suing the United States government, filing a federal lawsuit on June 23, 2026 to challenge its designation as a “Chinese military company” under Section 1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act.
China has reclaimed the title of the world’s fastest supercomputer for the first time in nearly a decade.
Beijing-based AI startup Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu AI and a spinout from Tsinghua University, has released GLM-5.2, a massive open-weight language model that has quickly climbed to the top of several prominent performance leaderboards.
Baidu is pursuing one of the most ambitious vertical integration strategies in the global AI industry, building its own chips, training its own frontier models on those chips, and deploying the resulting capabilities across its cloud infrastructure, all while simultaneously gaining selective access to restricted Nvidia hardware.
Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD has published a new patent for an artificial intelligence-powered underbody vision system designed to detect living organisms beneath parked vehicles before the car begins to move.
The United States’ long-held dominance in the global biotechnology sector is facing an unprecedented challenge from China, with artificial intelligence acting as a powerful accelerant in the race to develop new drugs. China’s growing strength in AI-driven research mirrors its advances in other deep-tech sectors including semiconductors and robotics.
China’s ambitious goal to green its rapidly expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure is colliding with the practical realities of power grid management, creating a paradox that threatens to complicate the country’s climate targets.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced the addition of 16 new manufacturing facilities to its prestigious Global Lighthouse Network, recognizing their exceptional deployment of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies at scale.
In a striking demonstration of China’s accelerating push toward “Industry 4.0,” Geely Automobile has unveiled its highly automated “lights-out” manufacturing facility in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.
The fourth China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) opened in Beijing on June 22, 2026, attracting significant participation from global technology giants amid intensifying US-China trade tensions.
In a significant escalation of the ongoing technological and economic friction between Beijing and Washington, China’s Ministry of Commerce has added 10 United States entities to its export control list, banning them from receiving Chinese dual-use exports.
Tencent has officially begun beta testing a new artificial intelligence assistant named Xiaowei within its flagship WeChat application, marking a decisive step in the company’s strategy to integrate generative AI into its massive user ecosystem.
The global race to commercialize autonomous vehicles has reached a critical inflection point, and a new industry scorecard suggests that Chinese companies have taken a decisive lead.
The 2026 Chongqing International Auto Exhibition has opened its doors, and the message from China’s automotive heartland is clear: the future of mobility is defined by artificial intelligence. While traditional auto shows once focused on horsepower, engine displacement, and exterior styling, the Chongqing event is overwhelmingly dominated by software, sensors, and smart cabin technologies.
