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.
Almost 90 per cent respondents say they do not want facial recognition in commercial areas while over half say they feel forced to use the technology, Beijing News survey shows.
The latest effort by Huawei continues the company’s push into new growth areas amid its struggles with US trade sanctions.
City wants to attract more global talent by offering better work conditions, and opening up its research facilities, according to new five-year plan.
The distance would extend the top-end of Tesla’s Model Y Long Range version by two-thirds, if the solid-state batteries live up to expectations. That would be a game changer in China, the world’s biggest electric car market.
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.
Attempts by Donald Trump to decouple the world’s two largest economies had cemented China’s resolve to integration financially with other countries. This presented an opportunity for Hong Kong, said Julia Leung of the SFC.
Taiwan contract chip maker TSMC will begin ‘risk production’ of its 3-nanometre process this year, a technology advance that will deliver higher performance and longer battery life for 5G smartphones and other high-end electronics products.
Last year was a big year for blockchain projects in China after President Xi Jinping called for further development of the technology at the end of 2019, but the country continues to shun cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Kuaishou Tech will kick off its blockbuster IPO next week, as the loss-making company targets a listing in early February.
Report highlights concerns in the west that foreign semiconductor technology transfers could be used by Beijing to improve military systems amid ongoing territorial disputes with neighbours.
MIIT says it is allowing driverless testing on highways because there is strong demand and the technology is improving.
Researchers at a university in southwestern China say their approach could mean superfast, cheap travel.
Facial-recognition developer Megvii abandoned its original Hong Kong IPO plan after the Trump administration placed it on a trade blacklist; it is now looking to list on Shanghai’s Star Market.
Mobileye wants to shift toward using its own radar-based technology and use a single lidar sensor per vehicle by 2025, in a bid to lower the cost of autonomous driving.
As China’s world-beating video-sharing apps take the stage, their impending stock offerings in Hong Kong will raise the curtain on the nation’s innovative and fast-paced e-commerce industry.
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.
With a special SIM card and app, some China Telecom smartphone users in Anhui province can make phone calls protected by quantum encryption, which could tip people off to potential eavesdroppers.
Xpeng’s CEO dismisses concerns that steep discounts to Tesla’s SUV may increase its appeal in mainland China and eat into market share of local electric vehicle makers.
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.
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.