Staff members of State Grid Jiading Power Supply Company inspect the electricity consumption of agricultural equipment at Shanghai’s first digital unmanned farm in Waigang town. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Across farmland stretching one thousand hectares, there are no farmers to be seen. Such a sight is fast becoming a reality. Recently, Wang Cong from the…
Members of the Shanghai, China Delegation to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the welcome ceremony hosted by Shanghai Disney Resort. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] SHANGHAI – Shanghai Disneyland will reopen to visitors starting from Tuesday at noon, following the departure from the city of Typhoon Bebinca, the 13th typhoon of this year. On Tuesday,…
Visitors experience VR gaming devices during the 2024 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in the Cultural & Tourism Service thematic exhibition area at the Shougang Park in Beijing, Sept 16, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – “Unbelievable! I thought she was a real person!” A visitor exclaimed in amazement after finding out that the…
China’s latest technological breakthroughs in homegrown deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines mark a significant milestone in the country’s semiconductor manufacturing equipment sector, and will help reduce its reliance on chipmaking technology from foreign counterparts, enhancing the competitiveness of the domestic semiconductor industry, experts said. Their comments came after the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology…
HEFEI – A drone hovered above a home appliance industrial park in eastern Chinese city of Wuhu, Anhui province. Equipped with several detection devices running in sync, it efficiently fed real-time production scenes back to the “smart brain” using a 5G network. “Every manufacturing process is working to improve quality and efficiency,” said Guo Kexiong,…
SHI YU/CHINA DAILY BEIJING – Standing in front of a huge interactive screen, 10-year-old Chen Tengxu was eagerly waiting to see where mythical animals from Chinese fairy tales might pop up. When nine fantastic beasts ran to Chen and his classmates one by one from the snow mountain, the desert and deep sea, their excited…
Brand Finance, a brand valuation and strategy consultancy, published its latest global 500 ranking on the most valuable and strongest global brands on Jan 17. Apple is titled as the world’s most valuable brand worth $516.6 billion. Chinese brands – TikTok and ICBC – ranked at 7th and 10th spot. Among the 500 brands, the…
Smartphone shipments in the Chinese market reached 271 million units in 2023. The figure was 73.63 million units in the fourth quarter of last year, showing an increase of 1.2 percent from the same period of 2022, ending a ten-quarter decline, according to the latest report from market consultancy IDC on Jan 25. Currently, the…
Malaysia, Japan and Thailand have become the top three international destinations for Chinese travelers this summer season (July 1 to Aug 31), according to recent data from Chinese online travel platform Qunar. Data from the platform show that outbound flight bookings for the summer period have surged by 1.6 times compared to the previous year,…
People visit the booth of the Peruvian embassy to China at the China International Fair for Trade Services, which opened in Beijing on Sept 12, 2024. The fair will run through Monday. WANG JING/CHINA DAILY BEIJING – At the 2024 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), dazzling products from the global service sector…