WeRide’s ambitious goal is emblematic of China’s larger drive to make roads and vehicles smarter and interconnected, to increase transport efficiency in the world’s largest automobile market.
China is smashing wind power building records and continues to show strong solar growth, making it a top destination for foreign clean-energy investment, but it needs to halt coal-fired plants to meet its 2030 objectives, analysts say.
City wants to attract more global talent by offering better work conditions, and opening up its research facilities, according to new five-year plan.
Semiconductors, industrial robots and new energy vehicles saw double-digit growth in 2020, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, but analysts say China remains far from its goal of technological self-sufficiency.
The search engine giant is teaming up with carmaker Geely to design and make smart electric vehicles, joining a crowded field of partnerships racing to challenge the dominance of Tesla.
State-backed labs that can carry out the world’s most advanced research are an important part of China’s efforts to boost its technological capabilities, but the country has fallen short of its targets so far.
Chinese health care stocks rallied 61 per cent last year with more upside expected in 2021. The pressure, however, will be on drug makers and device manufacturers after massive price cuts.
China’s government formed the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) in 2008 to design and construct the single-aisle C919 to reduce reliance on Europe’s Airbus and the United States’ Boeing.
China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen aims for 40 per cent growth over five years, with the goal of becoming an international hub of innovation, despite challenges from the US for local tech giants.
Hitachi Zosen will build the world’s largest facility to produce methane from carbon dioxide and hydrogen generated at a coal-based industrial zone in Shaanxi province.
PolyU team who developed scoops and container for China’s lunar craft to assess whether adjustments are needed for the next mission, as samples arrive on Earth.
A public hospital in Shanghai is treating depression in adult patients by using brain-computer interface (BCI) therapy
The country’s weather modification efforts would support emergency response plans to deal with events such as drought and hailstorms.
Hong Kong’s research and development (R&D) efforts get a chance to catch up to Singapore with plans for Lok Ma Chau Loop project.
Five-year plan included overhaul of state key laboratories, while government also vowed to do more to attract domestic and foreign talent.
This week’s round-up of leading stories include Chinese space telescope FAST’s big task post-Arecibo, Beijing’s new data protection effort and Genshin Impact, the toast of the video game industry.
A newly completed optoelectronics chip fab in Wuhan is a first step in giving Chinese telecoms champion Huawei semiconductor supply chain capabilities it currently lacks
China’s FAST, which became fully operational in January this year, is expected to open to foreign scientists in 2021.
US Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee will meet on December 10; BioNTech official says company is engaged with agencies in several countries and will be ready to roll out vaccine quickly after approvals.
Google’s artificial intelligence unit takes a giant step to predict the structure of proteins, in a development that has implications for research on new diseases like Covid-19.
Home-grown innovation has been identified as a ‘strategic pillar’ in the next five-year plan and companies are expected to step up.