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Talent keys to cyber-security
Cultivation of cybersecurity talent will depend on collaboration among industry, academia and the government, as China pushes for new ideas and novel solutions to address potential online threats, according to industry experts. Threats to...
DNA data storage becomes a top emerging technology
DNA data storage has become a top 10 emerging technology of 2019 on this year's World Economic Forum's annual list released in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province. Other technological breakthroughs with the greatest potential to make a...
More Chinese supercomputers make world’s top 500
In an increasingly fierce uphill race of exascale computing worldwide, more Chinese supercomputers are making the world's Top 500 list as seen in its latest edition published at this year's ISC High Performance (ISC). The annual ISC High...
China has AI pluses and minuses
China has unique advantages in artificial intelligence R&D, but it also lags behind in some areas, a research report has said. AI will become a major growth engine in the next decade. In 2018, 12 countries and regions set up national strategies...
Qingdao debuts high-speed maglev train prototype
China rolled off the production line a prototype magnetic-levitation train with a designed maximum speed of 600 kilometers per hour in Qingdao on Thursday, filling the gap in travel speed between aviation and high-speed rail passenger transport in...
China’s R&D investment up 11.6% in 2018
Fourth consecutive year that research and development costs accounted for more than 2% in GDP. China’s research and development investment increased by 11.6% year on year to 1.97 trillion yuan (US$ 293.6 billion) in 2018, accounting for 2.18% of...
Summit demonstrates China’s leapfrog into digital world
The second Digital China Summit opened Monday in eastern China's Fujian Province, offering a glimpse into the latest trends in digital technologies that are being rapidly deployed by the country's government units and companies. The Chinese...
Chinese scientists develop new catalyst to turn CO2 into clean liquid fuel
Chinese researchers have developed a new catalyst to convert carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, into methanol, widely considered a clean fuel for engines. A research team, led by Zeng Jie with the University of Science and Technology of...
Chip designers link up on drives
Two leading Chinese chip designers, Loongson Technology and Hunan Goke joined forces on Monday to boost the homegrown semiconductor industry's competence in controllers for solid state drives, a crucial component of data storage devices. Loongson...