MIIT says it is allowing driverless testing on highways because there is strong demand and the technology is improving.

A fine on short video app Douyin for spreading ‘obscene, pornographic and vulgar information’ is a signal to China’s internet companies that tighter regulations are coming, state news agency Xinhua says.

Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, was fined the maximum penalty for spreading ‘obscene, pornographic and vulgar information’ in the latest crackdown on cyberspace.

With a special SIM card and app, some China Telecom smartphone users in Anhui province can make phone calls protected by quantum encryption, which could tip people off to potential eavesdroppers.

Colin Huang has overtaken Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Tencent’s Pony Ma to become China’s second-richest person with a net worth of US$63.1 billion.

All Kuaishou employees will be required to work an extra day every two weeks ahead of its IPO, according to people familiar with the matter.

China’s eastern Zhejiang province has introduced regulations focused on the development of the digital economy, the first such regional law in the country.

The Zhejiang Communist Party pledged on Monday to bring progress to the platform economy, answering a call from Beijing to tame capital expansion after launching recent investigations into Alibaba and Ant Group.

Mobike officially halted operations of the mobile app and WeChat mini programme under its own brand last week, fully merging under its parent company Meituan.

A new project from Chinese technology and auto companies brings autonomous self-driving buses, vending machines and cleaning vehicles to Wuhan’s Longlingshan Ecological Park starting on January 1.

Much of the country’s microlending industry has grown on the back of China’s massive mobile phone user base.

In a screenshot widely shared online, Zhang Yiming asks if his workers are spending too much time discussing Genshin Impact during working hours as the company seeks to expand in gaming.

The country’s weather modification efforts would support emergency response plans to deal with events such as drought and hailstorms.

A company backed by Xiaomi, JD.com’s fintech unit and AI unicorn Megvii is set to become China’s second personal credit ratings agency.

The Cyberspace Administration of China’s latest crackdown on apps is part of Beijing’s ongoing efforts to clean up domestic internet content.

China’s FAST, which became fully operational in January this year, is expected to open to foreign scientists in 2021.

The aim is to build a much more accurate picture of a user’s credit profile by using a range of online data as opposed to traditional credit scoring.

Xpeng will start equipping its electric vehicles with lidar in 2021 after Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the technology expensive and unnecessary for self-driving cars.

ByteDance’s Feishu office suite, the Chinese version of Lark, is getting a dedicated cloud documents app as the company’s short video app TikTok continues to face hurdles overseas.

Blockchain company ShareRing will use Tencent cloud services for digital identification and travel documents to help tourism-reliant countries in Southeast Asia open their borders again.

XAG gets an influx of new cash from Baidu, SoftBank and others as competition in the agricultural drone market remains heated thanks to competition from DJI.

TikTok said it has worked with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to address national security concerns.

When China’s AI unicorns were sanctioned by the US it looked like a major threat to their business but the bigger challenge has been reducing reliance on surveillance systems.

Tighter US restrictions do not target China specifically but could further hamper the country’s efforts to catch up in semiconductor manufacturing

Beijing-headquartered ByteDance plans to bring in 10,000 more employees based in China by the end of the year, which is expected to hit founder Zhang Yiming’s target of nearly doubling the start-up’s global headcount to 100,000 by the end of the year.

The prepaid virtual card will allow users to make payments at more than 30 million UnionPay merchants globally

The TikTok owner faces stiff competition in China’s online heath care market, as it goes up against larger rivals such as Baidu Health, Alibaba Health, Tencent-backed WeDoctor and JD Health.

Dali, which translates to ‘great strength’ in Chinese, will take over all of ByteDance’s education business, as the tech unicorn diversifies its operations.

China’s digital yuan will not compete with private apps like WeChat Pay and Alipay, but it may have to contend with counterfeit digital wallets.

Macau and China’s southern Guangdong province have a mutually recognised health code system powered by blockchain that allows both sides to validate the health status of travellers without directly exchanging personal data.