(Xinhua) China's software and information technology service industry reported double-digit year-on-year growth in terms of both revenue and profits in the first four months of 2024, official data showed. Total profits of the sector jumped by 14.3 percent year on year to 431.4 billion yuan (about 60.69 billion U.S. dollars) during this period, while combined revenue rose by 11.6 percent to 3.8 trillion yuan, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Total revenue of the information technology service sub-sector increased by 13.2 percent year on year to around 2.5 tril ..read more

(China Daily) China's emphasis on promoting the development of smart cities and urban digital transformation is expected to bolster the innovative growth of the digital economy, help foster new quality productive forces and push forward the modernization of urban governance systems and capacity, officials and experts said. Noting that data serve as the foundation and core element of the digital economy, they called for more efforts to promote the exploitation and opening up of data, as well as the efficient circulation and use of data elements, while expanding the application scenarios ..read more

(China Daily) Eyeing high-quality development, more advanced management of data assets is needed in China's significant stride toward a digital future, said industry experts. "In the era of burgeoning digital economy, data is essential for the development of new quality productive forces, which has become a premium element of production," said Jiang Wei, director of the cybersecurity research institute at the China Academy of Cyberspace Studies. Preliminary estimates released during the National Data Work Conference in April suggest that in 2023, China's total data production is expecte ..read more

(China Daily) The commercial use of 5G-A(5G-Advanced) technology will boost industries and change the way people interact with each other, a senior executive of Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp said. "This year marks the starting year for the commercial use of 5G-A technology," said Tang Xue, vice-president of the Shenzhen, Guangdong province-based company, on Monday. "The commercialization of the technology will bring benefits not only to businesses, but also to ordinary people in their daily lives." 5G-A technology is an enhancement to 5G and a connection to 6G. Compared with ..read more

(Xinhua) China's Chang'e-6 touched down on the far side of the moon on Sunday morning, and will collect samples from this rarely explored terrain for the first time in human history, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. Supported by the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, the lander-ascender combination of the Chang'e-6 probe successfully landed at the designated landing area at 6:23 a.m. (Beijing Time) in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin. Chang'e-6 consists of an orbiter, a returner, a lander and an ascender. Since its launch on May 3 this year, it has gone through various stag ..read more

(Xinhua) China's electronics manufacturing industry posted a strong performance in the first four months of this year, driven by a steady increase in production and recovering domestic and global demand. The combined profits of major companies in the sector soared 75.8 percent year on year to 144.2 billion yuan (about 20.3 billion U.S. dollars) in the January to April period, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. During the same period, the combined operating revenue of these firms stood at 4.67 trillion yuan, up 7.9 percent year on year. The ministry attributed t ..read more

(China Daily) These days, robots can help you make a latte sporting a perfect creamy tulip pattern. With six-dimensional force control and high-precision algorithms, they now boast increasingly impressive self-learning and decision-making capabilities. Chang Li, vice-president of JAKA Robotics Co Ltd, said that the company has developed collaborative robots possessing stronger self-learning abilities, self-decision-making capabilities and human-machine interactions. "These intrinsic technological advances allow robot control through drag-and-drop and point teaching in practical scenario ..read more

(Xinhua) Chinese companies are under the spotlight at the venue of the 2024 Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Good Global Summit kicking off on Thursday. The summit is co-convened with the Swiss government and organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN), in partnership with 40 other UN agencies. Aiming to leverage AI to advance various global development priorities, including health, climate, gender equality, inclusive prosperity and sustainable infrastructure, the summit gathered over 2,500 participants across the world, inclu ..read more

(China Daily) SenseTime Group Inc, a leading Shanghai-based artificial intelligence software company, is doubling down on its development efforts on SenseCore, its AI infrastructure, to drive innovation and implementation of AI tasks in enterprises. SenseCore integrates AI model development, generation and application, empowering a new paradigm in AI production characterized by high efficiency, low cost and scalability. It has developed nationwide network-unified scheduling and expanded new computing nodes in cities such as Shanghai; Guangdong province's Shenzhen and Guangzhou; Fuzhou ..read more

(Xinhua) A team of Chinese scientists has accomplished the world's largest ion trap quantum simulation with a precision of single-qubit resolution, marking a significant leap forward in the pursuit for large-scale quantum computing capabilities. The ion trap, a device that confines ions within a confined space via electromagnetic fields, stands out as a highly promising candidate for the realization of large-scale quantum computing. However, the principal challenge in this approach is to simultaneously maintain stable ion trapping and precise control over a large number of ions. Quantum simu ..read more