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WeRide’s CEO said there was a ‘high probability’ that it would conduct an initial public offering, but did not elaborate further. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Autonomous vehicles

China’s WeRide to expand autonomous driving services in Guangzhou

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.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Size of China’s health care market draws global telemedicine firms

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Artificial intelligence

US leads world on artificial intelligence but China is catching up: study

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Climate change

China doubles renewable capacity in 2020 while ramping up thermal plants

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.

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An aerial shot of a solar and windpower farm in Dongtai near Yancheng in Jiangsu province. China expanded its renewable-energy capacity in 2020 while increasing its thermal plants at the same time. Photo: EPA-EFE
An aerial shot of a solar and windpower farm in Dongtai near Yancheng in Jiangsu province. China expanded its renewable-energy capacity in 2020 while increasing its thermal plants at the same time. Photo: EPA-EFE
China technology

Beijing sets sights on building ‘trillion yuan’ hi-tech manufacturing clusters

City wants to attract more global talent by offering better work conditions, and opening up its research facilities, according to new five-year plan.

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China technology

China made more chips in 2020, but also imported more

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.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Tesla faces a new foe as Baidu enters the fray for electric cars

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.

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Staff work on an engine production line of Geely Automobile in Baoji, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Photo: Xinhua
Staff work on an engine production line of Geely Automobile in Baoji, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Photo: Xinhua
China technology

China to restructure state-backed labs as key tech priority for 2021

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.

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Coronavirus pandemic

China’s 2021 health care outlook favours pharmaceutical and device makers

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.

Aviation

Explainer | What is China’s home-grown C919 aeroplane, and why is it important?

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.

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The C919 is a narrow-body jet being built by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac), a state-owned company based in Shanghai. Photo: Reuters
Shenzhen

Shenzhen’s hi-tech goals for 2025 defy US hostility and slowing growth

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.

Home to tech giants like Tencent, DJI, Huawei and ZTE, Shenzhen has come to be known as China’s Silicon Valley. Photo: Xinhua
Home to tech giants like Tencent, DJI, Huawei and ZTE, Shenzhen has come to be known as China’s Silicon Valley. Photo: Xinhua
China’s carbon neutral goal

Can the world’s largest methane plant help China cut carbon output?

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.

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Chang’e-5

Hong Kong team behind Chang’e 5 moon rock sampling set sights on Chang’e 6

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.

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China technology

Chip brain implant shows promise in treating depressed patients

A public hospital in Shanghai is treating depression in adult patients by using brain-computer interface (BCI) therapy

Elon Musk's start-up Neuralink showed this early version of a tiny sensor with hair-thin strands that could be implanted in a brain through a small incision. Photo: Handout
China technology

China eyes advanced ‘weather modification’ tech by 2025

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

Aerial photo taken on October 14, 2019 shows a shoal of the Ganjiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi province, where an orange alert for drought had been issued. China expects advances in weather modification technology and services to enable improved response to events like drought. Photo: Xinhua
Aerial photo taken on October 14, 2019 shows a shoal of the Ganjiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi province, where an orange alert for drought had been issued. China expects advances in weather modification technology and services to enable improved response to events like drought. Photo: Xinhua
Technology

Change of speed in the biotech race between Hong Kong and Singapore

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.

US-China tech war

Analysis | How China’s plan to boost innovation could benefit Greater Bay Area research

Five-year plan included overhaul of state key laboratories, while government also vowed to do more to attract domestic and foreign talent.

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China technology

Inside China Tech: ‘Sky Eye’ stays focused on space after Arecibo collapse

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.

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The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, the world's largest full dish radio telescope known as FAST, is located in Pingtang County, in southwest China’s Guizhou province. Photo: Xinhua
The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, the world's largest full dish radio telescope known as FAST, is located in Pingtang County, in southwest China’s Guizhou province. Photo: Xinhua
Huawei

Huawei takes a step towards supply chain independence with new ‘light fab’

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

Space

China’s FAST is only giant, single-dish radio telescope after Arecibo collapse

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

Coronavirus vaccine

US could be next to approve Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for use

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.

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A coronavirus vaccination developed by BioNTech and Pfizer. The US might become the next Western country to approve the inoculation, after Britain became the first. Photo: Reuters
Google

DeepMind AI breakthrough helps solve how diseases invade cells

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.

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Different folds in a protein determine how it will interact with other molecules, and understanding them has implications for discovering how new diseases like Covid-19 invade our cells. Image: Shutterstock
Different folds in a protein determine how it will interact with other molecules, and understanding them has implications for discovering how new diseases like Covid-19 invade our cells. Image: Shutterstock
US-China tech war

Analysis | State-corporate partnerships to drive China’s technology research

Home-grown innovation has been identified as a ‘strategic pillar’ in the next five-year plan and companies are expected to step up.

Artificial intelligence

China overtakes the US to lead global AI patent applications

China filed more than 110,000 artificial intelligence patent applications last year, a development seen bolstering the country’s position as the second-largest market for AI technology.

Space

China’s mission is the first chance since 1976 to collect moon samples

Long March 5 rocket carrying spacecraft takes off in China’s most complex mission yet.

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A Long March 5 rocket carrying China’s Chang’e 5 lunar probe launches from the Wenchang Space Centre in Hainan on a mission to bring back lunar rocks. Photo: AFP
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