A robotaxi vehicle seen on a street in Beijing. CHINA DAILY Last year, after I completed an interview in Yizhuang, a southern suburb of Beijing, I hailed a robotaxi by using a ride-hailing app on my mobile phone. All I had to input was the pickup and drop-off points and the number of passengers. A…
Chinese artificial intelligence pioneer iFlytek announced a major upgrade to its proprietary deep reasoning model, Spark X1, the industry’s only large language model trained entirely on China’s domestic computational infrastructure. The enhanced Spark X1 demonstrates significant improvements across general AI tasks, including mathematics, coding, logical reasoning, text generation, language understanding and knowledge-based Q&A, iFlytek said.…
Shanghai’s May 5 Shopping Festival will offer the biggest consumption subsidies and benefit the largest number of consumers, said local officials. They released the information during a news conference on Thursday. To be held from end April to late June, this year’s festival, to be held for the sixth year in a row, will introduce…
Air China, the nation’s flagship carrier, unveiled several major updates to its flight network on Thursday, signaling a strong push to meet growing demand amid China’s ongoing civil aviation development and steady economic recovery. Internationally, the airline will launch new routes from Beijing to Cairo and Toronto during the summer and autumn seasons. Additional destinations…
A view of the Huangpu River in Shanghai. [Photo/VCG] Boosted by China’s visa-free transit policy for international travelers, Shanghai saw the number of transactions made by foreign cards jump 48 percent year-on-year to 1.2 million in the first quarter, with the total transaction value surging 37 percent year-on-year to cross over 2 billion yuan ($274…
Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Artificial Intelligence AI” in this illustration. [Photo/Agencies] China has become the world’s largest holder of artificial intelligence patents, owning about 60 percent of global AI patents, CCTV News reported on Thursday. Artificial intelligence is a crucial driving force in the new wave of…
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Jiangsu province’s largest industrial-park microgrid to boost large-scale application of new energy is put into service on March 26 in Changzhou, saving 4.6 million yuan ($628,724) in energy costs each year and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 7,585 metric tons. XU DUO/FOR CHINA DAILY As an emerging energy storage solution, the country’s new type of water-based…
China Southern Airlines will continue to optimize the route network from South China to Australia, with the increasing number of two-way travelers. As the main Chinese carrier running the China-Australia route, China Southern Airlines operates 14 flights from Guangzhou, Guangdong province, to Sydney and three flights from Shenzhen in Guangdong to Sydney per week, said…
Containers are unloaded at Qingdao Port in Shandong province. [Photo by Yu Fangping/For China Daily] The US economic policies are disapproved by a majority of Americans, as the approval rating of the policies has fallen to 37 percent in a recent poll, according to a report titled Americans sour on Trump’s handling of the economy,…