As well as programmes in industry and education, local governments are encouraged to provide perks, including incentives in housing, start-up investment and schooling and jobs for the family of digital workers.
China – second only to the US in terms of aggregated processing power – sets 2025 deadline to scale up capacity by half.
Many younger Chinese are beleaguered by high expectations, extreme academic competition and bleak work and lifestyle prospects.
Chinese president’s message to Russian counterpart following concert hall attack that killed 143 shows Moscow can expect Beijing to ‘stand in solidarity’ with it on security, analyst says.
Researchers encounter ‘a lot of difficulties’ getting hold of public data in China, according to maths and statistics professor Chen Songxi.
In his maiden work report to the National People’s Congress, Li Qiang says growth target of 5 per cent won’t be easy.
Zhang remains a Communist Party and CPPCC member but is no longer the body’s deputy secretary general.
Communist Party mouthpiece says negative elements are rising but the country is in a sound recovery.
Supreme People’s Court spokesman says public can now access ‘limited’ archive of more than 3,700 rulings, which will be expanded.
Related entities are being asked how they produce, store, circulate, trade, develop and use data, and also about data security. NDA says the goal is to provide support for future policymaking and establishing ‘data application demonstration zones’.
Regulator reversals and empty government rhetoric will make it even harder to restore near-term business confidence, analysts say.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev concluded a visit to China where the two countries pledged to cooperate in areas such as green energy and transport.
Central Party School newspaper urges propaganda officials to use AI technology like ChatGPT to ‘guide international discourse’.
Top agencies must ensure computing hubs contribute most of country’s computing power by 2025 in race for hi-tech dominance.
Aims set out in National Data Administration’s draft three-year plan include more than 20 per cent annual growth for the data industry and the doubling of data transactions by 2026.
Tsinghua University says former student Zhu Ling, who was disabled from thallium poisoning nearly 30 years ago, has died after prolonged illness, triggering outpouring of grief and outrage on social media over lack of justice in cold case.
The National Data Administration debuts as Beijing seeks to outpace the US and other Western rivals in setting norms and standards for data governance and artificial intelligence.
Reports play up personal interactions between President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Joe Biden as well as the Chinese leader’s remarks on Taiwan, bilateral ties and Washington’s efforts to contain Beijing.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Takeo Akiba, Japan’s top national security adviser, in Beijing.
Chinese firms appear to be stockpiling hi-tech chip-making equipment before the Netherlands’ export controls take effect.
New rules a bid by Beijing to provide cyber environment that is good for ‘physical and mental health’ of over 191 million internet users aged under 18.
US-sanctioned general’s fall follows weeks of speculation over his absence from public view since August. State television also reported that Li and former foreign minister Qin Gang have been removed as state councillors.
China has stepped up backchannel efforts with the United States amid signs of a thaw in bilateral relations.
The Chinese leader pledged the equivalent of US$107 billion over the next five years, matching a commitment given over the same timescale in 2017.
Li Xi, head of the CCDI, says five government departments and 26 state-owned enterprises are in the cross hairs.
Party commission to take over planning and policy for sensitive sectors, possibly as a result of US rivalry, espionage fears and military links.
US President Joe Biden’s executive order restricts venture capital and private equity investments in China’s chip and AI industries, a move analysts say could be a signal to allies to follow suit.
Despite top entrepreneurs’ chorus of support for 31-point action plan from Beijing, smaller business owners are ‘not sure it will make any difference’.
US treasury secretary held several meetings on recent Beijing visit but only an all-women lunch drew ire from nationalists on social media.
Beijing aims to boost confidence in Chinese history and culture at home, while to the outside world it pushes respect for ‘diversity of civilisations’ and opposition to ‘ideological confrontation’.