Participants attend the 2026 Suzhou Global Investment Promotion Conference on Thursday in Suzhou, Jiangsu province. The conference was held as a sideline event to the APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting. CHINA DAILY China will remain a prime long-term destination for global investors, driven by its vast consumer market, deeper opening-up and rapid advances in digital…
Chinese smartphone brand iQOO has unveiled its latest model. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] While the global smartphone market continues to contract, AI-powered devices have emerged as a rare bright spot, according to latest data from the market research company Canalys. In the first quarter of 2026, worldwide shipments of AI smartphones soared 320 percent year-on-year.…
Liu Jun, president of Lenovo China. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Chinese tech heavyweight Lenovo has announced a massive push to accelerate the development of its Tianxi AI ecosystem, pledging 1 trillion tokens of computing power and establishing a multi-million-yuan incentive fund for developers and users. The move aims to foster collaboration among industry partners, developers…
China has expressed firm opposition to the European Union’s reported plan to introduce a new trade tool, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday, warning that Beijing will take resolute countermeasures if the bloc rolls out such a tool targeting Chinese companies or products. The response came after media reports that the European Commission is…
Tesla’s complete version of full self-driving technology has not yet got official approval in China, sources familiar with the matter told China Daily on Thursday, but they said progress is under way and regulatory framework for advanced driver-assistance technologies, including Tesla’s, may come soon. Market attention has recently focused on the potential progress of China’s…
China’s powerful State-backed investors are piling into the country’s top artificial intelligence startups, turning the efforts over large language models from a venture capital frenzy into a strategic national move over technological self-sufficiency. Moonshot AI, a leading Beijing-based startup behind the Kimi chatbot, has added a cluster of State-backed funds and government-linked investors to its…
A panoramic view of the Elga open-pit mine. With 2.2 billion metric tons of reserves, the mine is the largest coking coal deposit in Russia and one of the largest in the world. CHINA DAILY Nestled in the permafrost region of Yakutia in Russia’s Far East, the Elga Coal Complex has become a symbol of…
Jobseekers talk with recruitment representatives at an artificial intelligence (AI) job fair held in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, on June 28, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] The accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence is increasingly reshaping hiring trends and workplace dynamics, as companies race to recruit AI talent while workers scramble to adapt to the technology’s growing influence,…
A fully loaded ore carrier berthed at the Caofeidian Port Area of Tangshan Port in Hebei province on Sunday. GUO YANQI/CHINA DAILY The fully loaded 400,000-metric-ton-class ore carrier Yuan Jian Hai berthed at Caofeidian Port Area of Tangshan Port in Hebei province on Sunday, marking a new phase in regular full-load berthing for such ultra-large…
URUMQI — A new kind of hub is emerging in the landscape of energy-rich Northwest China. Instead of oil derricks, these centers are filled with rows of server racks. Inside a 200-square-meter room at the Tianshan Smart Valley Advanced Computing Cluster in Hami, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, hundreds of servers hum day and night. In…