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CATL executive warns of risks from EV price cuts, calls on Beijing to intervene

CATL executive warns of risks from EV price cuts, calls on Beijing to intervene

A senior executive from Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s largest producer of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), urged authorities on the mainland to intervene in the price war that is roiling the market for new energy cars. Ni Jun, CATL’s chief manufacturing officer, on Wednesday said the brutal discount war would not end if […]

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JD.com hires full-time food delivery riders to challenge Meituan, Alibaba

JD.com hires full-time food delivery riders to challenge Meituan, Alibaba

JD Logistics has kicked off recruitment of full-time meal delivery riders, as its parent – e-commerce giant JD.com – intensifies efforts to compete with Meituan and Alibaba Group Holding in the lucrative Chinese food delivery market. Hong Kong-listed JD Logistics said on Tuesday it had started hiring full-time riders for JD.com’s food delivery business, in

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Apple joins China’s subsidy scheme to boost sales amid heated domestic competition

Apple joins China’s subsidy scheme to boost sales amid heated domestic competition

Consumers in Beijing and Shanghai are now entitled to discounts of up to 2,000 yuan (US$278) on select models of Apple devices – including the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and MacBook – when they buy directly from the US company, according to a statement published on Tuesday on Apple’s mainland Chinese website. To avail themselves

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How China’s Yangtze River Delta became a tech powerhouse

How China’s Yangtze River Delta became a tech powerhouse

In Suzhou, eastern China’s Jiangsu province, the start-up Magic Lab specialises in full-sized humanoid robots designed to interact with people and work in factories – just one example of the Yangtze River Delta region’s transformation into a national innovation hub. “More than 90 per cent of the components, including critical parts like torque motor joints,

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iFlytek unveils medical AI, smart classroom tech in Hong Kong amid global push

iFlytek unveils medical AI, smart classroom tech in Hong Kong amid global push

Chinese voice recognition giant iFlytek has launched a series of artificial intelligence (AI) products in Hong Kong, where its new international headquarters will support its global expansion, as the firm doubles down on a commitment to home-grown computing infrastructure amid tightened US chip restrictions. iFlytek is making an upgraded international version of its Spark medical

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Huawei, SMIC struggle to advance chips to 5-nm level, MateBook shows: report

Huawei, SMIC struggle to advance chips to 5-nm level, MateBook shows: report

Huawei Technologies continues to face challenges in advancing to the 5-nanometre chip manufacturing process, an analysis of its latest laptop hardware shows, underscoring the impact of US sanctions on the Chinese telecoms equipment giant. Canadian research firm TechInsights found that the newly launched MateBook Fold Ultimate Design laptop features Huawei’s Kirin X90 system-on-a-chip (SoC), which

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Beijing could use Hong Kong as test bed for yuan-linked stablecoins: Morgan Stanley

Beijing could use Hong Kong as test bed for yuan-linked stablecoins: Morgan Stanley

China’s central bank could use Hong Kong as a sandbox for testing digital payment alternatives to internationalise the yuan, but Beijing’s digital currency ambitions face hurdles because of the country’s economic challenges, according to Morgan Stanley. Hong Kong has established the world’s first regulatory regime for stablecoins – digital tokens that are pegged to a

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How Tesla’s Robotaxi service compares with Baidu’s Apollo Go in China

How Tesla’s Robotaxi service compares with Baidu’s Apollo Go in China

With the roll-out of Tesla’s new Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, here is how Elon Musk’s offering compares to the Apollo Go driverless taxi service by Chinese tech giant Baidu: When: Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the launch of the autonomous vehicle service on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday, calling it the “culmination of a

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Anker, Romoss recall over 1.2 million power banks amid fire risks

Anker, Romoss recall over 1.2 million power banks amid fire risks

Two major Chinese electronics manufacturers, Anker and Romoss, have launched massive recall programmes for over 1.2 million power banks, marking one of China’s largest gadget removal efforts in recent years, with both companies citing problematic battery cells that overheat and made them fire hazards. Anker – based in Changsha, capital of central Hunan province -announced

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DeepSeek founder’s doubt leads entrepreneur Luo Yonghao to embrace his gift of gab

DeepSeek founder’s doubt leads entrepreneur Luo Yonghao to embrace his gift of gab

Meeting in a hotel lobby in Beijing in January, DeepSeek Founder Liang Wenfeng posed a soul-searching question to Luo Yonghao, a former English teacher turned entrepreneur: why would someone whose best asset is his eloquence start a technology company? The exchange – recounted by Luo in Beijing on Saturday at an event hosted by Founder

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