Recently, a ceremony was held at Shandong Chunguan Food Co., Ltd. to mark the first shipment of fresh goose foie gras from Weifang to Hong Kong. The consignment passed inspection by Weifang Customs before being dispatched to Hong Kong, marking a breakthrough in Shandong Province’s exports of fresh goose foie gras to the Hong Kong market.
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Zhipu AI said that its newly launched GLM-5.3-Flash, the first native multimodal model in its GLM-5 series, is powered entirely by 100,000 domestically made chips. This underscores China's push to build large-scale AI infrastructure using homegrown semiconductors.
Profits in China's integrated circuit industry surged 18.5-fold year-on-year in the first seven months of 2026, as the accelerated expansion of the "AI+" initiative and sustained growth in computing-power demand boosted demand for related products, pushing up prices and driving rapid profit growth in electronics industries linked to AI production and applications.
Profits made by China’s integrated circuit or semiconductors industry, spanning computing and memory chips, skyrocketed 18.5 times year-on-year in the first seven months of 2026, propelled by explosive demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure and sustained construction of the computing capacity, official data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Thursday.
Global perceptions of China are undergoing their most profound structural shift since the end of the Cold War, and China is expected to become the major economy that people around the world most aspire to by 2050, according to a new think tank report released in Beijing on Wednesday.
US chipmaker Nvidia is paying $6 billion to license the model-building technology of artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Poolside and hiring more than 100 of its engineers, to build an open-weight AI model able to compete with Chinese rivals such as DeepSeek and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Chinese analysts said on Monday that the move marks a shift in a US industry that long bet on closed development, and one that China welcomes.
The 32nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Ministerial Meeting will be held on Sept. 4 in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Monday.
Chinese electric forklifts are riding a powerful export wave, the Global Times learned from manufacturers and exporters. Analysts attributed the export boom to surging and accelerating global demand for cost-effective, low-carbon logistics equipment inside factories.
China shipped more than 40,000 humanoid robots in the first half of this year, lifting its share of global shipments to 97 percent, according to an industry report released on Thursday at the 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing. The sector has moved past small-batch trials into routine deployment and real-world application at scale, the report said.
Alongside civilian robot makers such as Unitree, UBTECH and AgiBot, several Chinese companies at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing are exploring the potential use of humanoid and quadruped robots in security and military-related fields. The applications on display at the five-day event, which runs from Wednesday to Sunday, range from patrolling industrial sites and restraining suspects to piloting older aircraft and loading missiles onto planes.
