A new government plan will have Shenzhen pursue a range of hi-tech development initiatives, including flexible policies to attract and retain highly skilled talent from overseas.

SCMP visits one of China’s treatment centres for internet addicts more than a decade after such a disorder was classified as an official disease.

Revenue from games and social media businesses rose 14 per cent to 48 billion yuan in the second quarter.

Chaos at Hong Kong International Airport comes as neighbouring centres press ahead with big plans.

This is the first of an occasional tech series on Shenzhen, the southern metropolis bordering Hong Kong that is earning a reputation as China's Silicon Valley.

Facial recognition tech promises next wave of payments convenience for consumers and has potential to include less tech-savvy users, such as the elderly.

Investment bank expects Tencent’s mobile gaming revenue growth to recover to 23 per cent year on year in the second quarter

Experts warn that social problems may have hit dangerous levels as Beijing vows to step up efforts to boost employment and education as the economy slows.

CloudMinds is targeting a diverse range of service sectors including retail, hospitality, security, leisure, and healthcare in the near future.

Once the realm of science fiction, using the brain to control machines is already happening on a small scale but one entrepreneur wants to take it much further

Chinese tech giants introduce apps that help residents stay out of trouble when it comes to sorting and disposing of their trash.

The rapid adoption of drones in safety agencies illustrates DJI’s strategy of sharpening its focus on its industrial business with new products to offset slowing growth in the broader consumer market

JD.com is using AI across the entire purchasing process, from product search and personalised recommendations to customer-service chatbots and product delivery

Fujian-based digital forensics and information security specialist is believed to be linked to spy app used by Chinese police to extract data from citizens’ smartphones.

The Shenzhen Industrial Internet Union aims to help drive the development of new technologies for the industrial internet era in the southern coastal city that is often called China’s Silicon Valley.

China has stepped up its oversight of the gaming industry following a directive from Chinese President Xi Jinping that more needed to be done to avoid myopia in children

China will need to step up the development of more supercomputers to handle the growing requirements of its industries, according to tech authorities.

China is home to the world’s biggest online gaming market and has been more proactive than most countries in tackling addiction to the internet.

Low profile head of Foxconn’s semiconductor unit named to succeed founder Terry Gou as chairman amid US-China trade war

DJI said discussions at a US Senate hearing ‘included inaccurate information and speculation about drone use and technology’.

China’s developers of supercomputers have found themselves in Washington’s cross hairs after the US Commerce Department added them to the Entity List, which effectively bars them from purchasing US technology.

The 618 shopping festival in June and the bigger annual Singles’ Day retail extravaganza in November serve as a barometer of consumer spending and retail health in the world’s second largest economy.

A senior Foxconn executive said last week that the Taiwanese electronics contract manufacturer could assemble all US-bound iPhones for Apple outside China if the trade war intensified and became more unpredictable.

As home to some of the country’s biggest exporters and tech firms, few other places in China are more exposed to Washington’s tariffs.

Suppliers often depend on orders from big firms such as Huawei to sustain their business, and losing a big customer can immediately threaten their survival.

Surging handset sales had pushed Huawei within striking distance of Samsung for the bestselling smartphone sales crown before the Chinese company was placed on a US blacklist

China’s Silicon Valley caught in crossfire of tech war as country’s most advanced technologies, from AI to drones and robotics, being developed in the area.

A book by a French executive previously jailed for corruption has become the bestselling management tome in China because readers see parallels to the US case against Huawei.

The Entity List identifies organisations and individuals considered to be a significant risk to US security and foreign policy.

Tech workers in Shenzhen’s Yue Hai district, home to some of China’s biggest names in technology, worry over the impact of US-China tech war.