https://www.scmp.com/rss/325024/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com While the past two years may have been brutal for brick-and-mortar stores worldwide, China’s online and offline retailers have witnessed a “new retail” revolution, driving an increasingly stronger national consumption. Since China launched economic reforms in 1978, the country’s retail industry has undergone multiple stages of development. With foreign retailers flooding in after China joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001, the scene was diversified. Offline retail started to be challenged... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2125831/how-china-leading-new-retail-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2125831/how-china-leading-new-retail-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Dec 2017 09:20:16 +0000 In the past few years, China has dived head first into artificial intelligence (AI) research, with the goal of becoming the de facto world leader in this game-changing technology. According to The Economist, from 2012 to 2016, Chinese AI companies received US$2.6 billion in funding while US peers received US$17.9 billion, but this is quickly changing. China, earlier seen as a technology development laggard, is now grasping AI as an opportunity to leapfrog foreign peers. Over 40 per cent of the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2108318/how-chinas-ai-experts-can-beat-google-and-microsoft-their?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2108318/how-chinas-ai-experts-can-beat-google-and-microsoft-their?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Aug 2017 03:04:12 +0000