Alibaba Cloud announced a significant price reduction of 85 percent on its visual language model Qwen-VL on Tuesday, a latest move showing that Chinese tech companies are in an intensifying race of business for their nascent artificial intelligence (AI) products.
Altogether 158 data products have passed government review after Shanghai implemented a new set of regulations aimed at recognizing and protecting the intellectual property rights associated with data-driven innovations in early December.
Walmart China unveiled two new next-generation stores in Kunming, Yunnan province, in December, marking a major step in the retailer's transformation strategy.
With the operation of a large-scale pumped storage power station, the power grid in North China will become more stable and efficient. The station — akin to a power bank — can store significant amounts of electrical energy and supply power during peak consumption periods.
The first-generation unit of the Zhangzhou nuclear power plant in East China's Fujian Province officially entered commercial operation on Wednesday after successfully completing a demonstration run lasting 168 hours.
Chinese airlines have been adding capacity on flights to ice and snow tourism destinations in China and neighboring countries to cash in on the rapidly growing demand this winter.
China's domestically developed passenger aircraft, the C919, successfully completed its maiden flight from Shanghai to Hong Kong on New Year's Day, marking the jetliner's first commercial operation beyond the Chinese mainland.
The A-share market will likely continue to show upward momentum this year amid the supportive policies to further buoy market liquidity and companies' improving fundamentals, said experts.
China will further promote the development and utilization of enterprise data resources, and advance the establishment of trusted data matrixes, so as to fully unleash the value of massive data resources.
Year-end bonuses and welfare programs unveiled by leading internet companies have gained widespread attention, with some employees receiving up to eight additional monthly salaries for the year based on their performance.
U.S. electric car producer Tesla's Shanghai Megapack energy storage plant has begun trial production and is expected to start mass production early next year, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
The first shipment of Australian lobsters in four years arrived at the Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province on Monday following the lifting of a ban on live rock lobster imports.
The notice stipulated that for official vehicles to be characterized by relatively stable routes, specific usage scenarios and primarily operating within the confines of urban areas.
Coastal Hebei province in North China is aiming to boost the annual throughput capacity of its ports to 1.4 billion metric tons and 8 million standard containers by 2027, according to information from the government.
Shanghai Port officially became the world's first port to cross the 50 million mark for annual container throughput, solidifying its competitiveness as the world's busiest container port for 15 consecutive years, said the port's operator Shanghai International Port (Group) Co Ltd.
China's output of key mineral resources hit a new high this year with the extraction of 10 major nonferrous metals reaching a peak of 72.288 million metric tons in the first 11 months, a 4.4 percent year-on-year increase.
The absolute value of China's manufacturing industry continues to increase, ranking first in the world for the 14th consecutive year and having shown major improvement in sustainable development in recent years.
China will strive to achieve an average compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15 percent in its data industry by 2029, according to guidelines released on Monday, which include concrete measures to promote the high-quality development of the data industry.
Following the connection of a new wind farm to the grid on Monday, the installed capacity of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region's new energy reached 100.3 million kilowatts, breaking the 100 million kilowatt mark.
China will ramp up efforts to bolster the high-quality development of the data industry, with the compound annual growth rate of the data industry surpassing 15 percent by 2029, according to a new guideline released on Monday.
All five turbine generator units at the station -- four 550,000-kilowattunits and one 120,000-kilowatt unit-- are scheduled to enter full operation on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024.
If new energy vehicles can meet actual usage needs, their proportion in the total annual procurement of official vehicles should not be less than 30 percent in principle.
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence firm, released an open AI model last week and claimed it has beaten many foreign competitors on popular benchmarks.
China has set its sights firmly on the future, with a roadmap laid out during the recently concluded annual Central Economic Work Conference. The focus is clear — scientific and technological innovation will be the cornerstone of the nation's economic strategy heading into 2025.
Pre-made meals have sparked heated debate on China's social media in recent years over concerns about safety, hygiene, and nutrition. Experts attribute the disparity in acceptance to differing levels of industry development and public understanding.
China's first domestically built large cruise ship, Adora Magic City, has completed 84 journeys and carried 600,000 inbound/outbound tourists in the first year of its commercial operation.
China plans to build 4.5 million 5G base stations and develop more future industries in 2025, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology at its working conference on Friday.
China rolled out a number of policy measures in 2024 designed to reduce financial burdens and ease access for homebuyers.
Guangdong will further increase efforts to develop non-petrochemical energy sources, promoting the construction of large-scale offshore wind power plants to achieve its energy conservation and carbon reduction targets in 2025.
As a rotary drilling rig roared to life, a Chinese construction team commenced pile testing operations for a key oil storage tank project at Dar es Salaam Port in Tanzania last week.