Luis Ho Pushes China Into World Astronomy Club
Luis Ho, 48, is the director of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and a professor at Peking University in Beijing.
The Sham Marriage App Helping China’s Gay Community
With homosexuality illegal until 1997 and prejudice still rife, gays and lesbians are increasingly joining forces with the help of matchmaking apps
China Aims to Build Its Own Secure Smartphones
State-owned and private tech firms team up to cut
China Is Becoming a Supercomputing Powerhouse
China is experiencing a supercomputing boom.
Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program, Costing the U.S. Jobs
“I had this great American dream that got broken.”
How Smartphones are Solving One of China’s Biggest Mysteries
For decades, China has been engaged in a building boom of a scale that is hard to wrap your mind around.
China Unveils Jetliner in Bid to Compete With Boeing, Airbus
China is one of the biggest aviation markets but relies on Boeing and Airbus aircraft.
Space: China Plays the Russia Card?
Russian engines could offer China a fast track for its ICBM capability building.
Britain Should Harness the Power of China's Red Tech Revolution
China's start-up culture means the best jobs of the future may soon be, not here, but in the East.
China's Xiaomi's Is Changing the U.S. Too
Xiaomi is the most important phone manufacturer you've never heard of.
America’s Biggest Competitor Really Isn’t China
If you ask Americans who their country's biggest competitor is, many people will tell you China.
Nuclear Technology - China's Next Great Export?
China will be part of building the next generation of UK nuclear power stations.
China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From U.S. Tech Firms
Beijing has summoned American tech companies to a forum in Seattle next week.
Caixin Media
09.01.15
Quantum Computing and Alibaba’s Leap of Faith
Building a quantum computer that processes data at speeds trillions of times faster than the world’s fastest computer, China’s supercomputer Tianhe-2, is the goal of a potentially game-changing venture launched by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and...
Caixin Media
07.27.15
Tech Takeoff Lifts Drone Industry to New Heights
A tech evolution and falling production costs have allowed drones to make the flight off military bases and Hollywood production lots to the hands of ordinary people and government agencies.
It has become routine to see these small...
Why Russia’s Turn to China is a Mirage
Chinese companies provide Russian companies with technology which they cannot access due to sanctions, and Chinese banks are a source of loans for Russian businesses.
Jitters in Tech World Over New Chinese Security Law
New language in the rules calls for a “national security review” of the technology industry — including network and other products and services — and foreign investment.
Techies Are Trying to Get Chinese Consumers to Rack Up Debt
In recent years, as the growth of the Chinese economy has slowed—thanks to declining demand for exports and new real estate projects—the government has been desperate to get its thrifty citizens to spend, spend, spend and drive economic growth...
Power Play: China’s Ultra High Voltage Technology and Global Standards
Paulson Institute
As a matter of government policy and corporate strategy, China has been intensifying its effort to set indigenous standards for homegrown ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission technology. The country also aims to contribute to UHV standards...
China Drops Leading Technology Brands for State Purchases
U.S. brands Cisco, Apple, Intel, McAfee and Citrix Systems may be the first to suffer.
Viewpoint
02.20.15
Major China Apple Supplier Pays Workers Less Than Foxconn
Apple, the world’s most beloved maker of sleek mobile phones, powerful personal computers, and slim portable music players recently reported record profits—money a new report from the New York-based nongovernmental organization China Labor Watch...
Trade Groups Urge U.S. to Push Against Chinese Regulations
New policies that could hamper the ability of major technology multinationals to do business in China.
Want to Hire a Private Car in China? There Will Be No App for That
“Banning private cars from using the apps will put passengers at ease,” the ministry said. “But apps for premium car services have an innovative service model and play a positive role in meeting the high-end and differentiated transportation...
In China, a Rapid Jump to Mobile Advertising
Liu Xuelong, a television and documentary producer in Beijing, hasn’t used his television in years. He gets all of his entertainment on his iPhone 6 Plus, where he also taps a plethora of apps to buy plane tickets, pay bills, talk with clients....
In China, Expectant Dads Line Up to Experience Labor Pains
He described the treatment as creating a three-part sensation: hot steel balls dropping on his stomach and then a hook being gouged into him, followed by the ripping of his innards. “I treated her to a French dinner after,” says Mr. Li.
Israeli Tech Startups Attract Chinese Investors
As China scours the world for tech investments, it is increasingly flocking to Israel for the next big thing.
China’s Water Diversion Project Starts to Flow to Beijing
The project has roots in an offhand comment by Mao Zedong who, on an inspection tour in the early 1950s, said: “The south has plenty of water, but the north is dry. If we could borrow some, that would be good.”
In China, Even Creating a Pollution Tracking App Is a Risky Business
It was mid-October 2011, and the air quality in Beijing was quite bad, as you may imagine. It came to my mind that if we could check the air quality on our phones and receive pollution notifications, that would be quite helpful and handy. After...
Driverless Cars Compete in China
China has been holding its sixth driverless car competition, with the unmanned vehicles having to navigate their way through various obstacles.
Alibaba Smashes Its Sales Record On China’s Singles’ Day Shopping Bonanza
In case you missed the media hype and have no idea why November 11 (11/11) is significant, it’s China biggest e-commerce sales day. Think of it as an amalgamation of all of North America’s biggest online retail days into one… on steroids.
Shanghai-Hong Kong Link to Start in a Week as China Opens
The program allowing a net 23.5 billion yuan ($3.8 billion) of daily cross-border purchases will begin on November 17, regulators said in a joint statement today after weeks of investor speculation on the start date.
Japan Builds Response to Chinese Area-Denial Strategy
Japan’s response to Chinese anti-access/area-denial threats rest on three planks: increasingly large helicopter carriers, next-generation 3,300-ton Soryu-class submarines and new Aegis destroyers.
High Tech: The Next Wave of Chinese Investment in America
Asia Society
In this report, we explore the advent of Chinese investment in U.S. high-tech sectors in order to provide an objective starting point for debate about this nascent trend. We use a unique dataset on Chinese FDI transactions in the United States to...
Sinica Podcast
04.05.13
The Transgressions of Apple Computer
from Sinica PodcastWhile foreign media coverage these last two weeks has focused on environmental disasters, over-fishing, and emerging forms of the avian flu, the Chinese state media has turned its gaze towards the transgressions of Apple Computer, which found...
Books
03.20.13
Green Innovation in China
As the greatest coal-producing and consuming nation in the world, China would seem an unlikely haven for wind power. Yet the country now boasts a world-class industry that promises to make low-carbon technology more affordable and available to all. Conducting an empirical study of China’s remarkable transition and the possibility of replicating their model elsewhere, Joanna I. Lewis adds greater depth to a theoretical understanding of China’s technological innovation systems and its current and future role in a globalized economy.
How Foxconn Changed a Small Chinese Town
Chances are pretty good that the folks at Foxconn had something to do with at least a part of whatever device you’re reading this post on right now. The Taiwanese company is massive, and with plants all over China, its effect in some parts of...
Caixin Media
07.11.12
Railroaded into a Fast-Train Technology Trap
The professional dreams of a team of locomotive designers and rail systems engineers sped along steel tracks through the countryside of northeastern China.
The year was 2003, and high-speed track testing was under way between the cities of...
Caixin Media
07.02.12
Deal Puts Saab in Green Technology Driver’s Seat
The dark clouds over bankrupt Swedish car maker Saab have finally cleared.
Saab Automobile AB’s liquidator signed an agreement in mid-June with National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS) to sell the company’s main assets to the Sino-...
Books
05.21.12
China Airborne
More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011, China announced its Twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. Its goal is to produce the Boeings and Airbuses of the future.
Books
03.06.12
Need, Speed, and Greed
World-renowned economist Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran provides a deeply insightful, brilliantly informed guide to the innovation revolution now transforming the world. With echoes of Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, Tim Brown’s Change by Design, and Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, Vaitheeswaran’s Need, Speed, and Greed introduces readers to the go-getters, imagineers, and visionaries now reshaping the global economy.
Energy Innovation
Council on Foreign Relations
Low-carbon technology innovation and diffusion are both essential aspects of an effective response to climate change. Studying China, India, and Brazil, the authors of this report examine how innovation in low-carbon technologies occurs and how...
Books
04.01.10
China’s Telecommunications Revolution
China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades. Chinese Internet users number nearly 150 million, and the P.R.C. expects to quickly pass the U.S. in total numbers of connected citizens. The number of mobile and fixed-line telephone users soared from a mere 2 million in 1980 to a total of nearly 800 million in 2007. China has been the most successful developing nation in history for spreading telecommunications access at an unparalleled rapid pace.