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China has sufficient rice, wheat to feed its people (China Daily)
2021-11-05
COP26: China's carbon emissions set to pass pre-pandemic levels (SCMP)
2021-11-04
Xi presents China's top science award to aircraft designer, nuclear expert (Xinhua)
2021-11-04
China Now Has Covid-19 Flare-Ups in 19 Regions (Caixin)
2021-11-04
Local Covid-19 outbreaks in mainland China have spread to 19 out of 31 provincial-level regions, the widest distribution nationwide since the Wuhan outbreak early last year, as the number of infections mostly linked to trips in northern China since mid-October continues to grow. As of Wednesday, China had recorded more than 700 locally transmitted infections in dozens of cities in 19 province-level regions since Oct. 17 when Xi'an, the capital of northwestern Shaanxi province, confirmed two cases in a group of eight who had visited Inner Mongolia and Gansu province. The widest spread prior to this began in Nanjing on July. 20 before reaching 16 provinces in a month. The country confirmed 87 new locally transmitted cases on Wednesday, down from a three-month high of 93 a day earlier, according to the National Health Commission (NHC). About half of these cases were found in the city of Heihe in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, which recorded its highest daily number of local Covid cases since the city reported its first positive case on Oct. 27. Health authorities in China have been scrambling to control the multiregion Covid outbreak as the number of local infections linked to trips in northern China continues to grow. Nearly 500 of the some 700 total confirmed cases recorded since mid-October are directly and indirectly linked to outbreaks in Inner Mongolia and Gansu, according to local health authorities. As of Wednesday, the city of Hehei, Heilongjiang province, has recorded 184 cases in eight days since one confirmed case was found in Anhui district on Oct. 27. The city has locked down multiple communities, conducted six rounds of mass testing for the coronavirus, and since Wednesday closed all public venues. Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the NHC's disease prevention and control bureau, said at a press conference Saturday that the local cluster in Heihe, which neighbors Russia's major Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk, was not linked to outbreaks in other regions but instead caused by new imported cases. Heilongjiang's provincial health authorities have traced the local cluster in Hehei to the highly transmissible delta variant. North China's Hebei province, which has the second-highest daily count among provincial regions, confirmed 23 cases on Wednesday, with 20 of them found in its capital city Shijiazhuang. The Chinese capital recorded zero new cases on Wednesday. The city confirmed 9 local cases the previous day, all in Changping district. As of Tuesday, the city has recorded 39 locally transmitted cases in three districts in its latest local outbreak. Other cities have reported new cases linked to outbreaks in North China. The city of Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan on Tuesday confirmed a locally transmitted case of a person who had travelled on business to Xi'an, Yinchuan, Lanzhou and Chongqing from Oct. 8-17. Chongqing municipality on Tuesday confirmed four new local cases, two of which have had contact with the Chengdu case. The eastern city of Changzhou, Jiangsu province, on Tuesday reported three new cases linked to cases confirmed in Chongqing. The country has been implementing its "zero tolerance" policy with strict disease control measures, which prominent infectious disease expert Zhong Nanshan has defended in a state media interview, saying that measures to deal with sporadic Covid-19 outbreaks are less costly than treating patients after they've been infected. Zhong has said at a Saturday conference that the country could effectively contain the latest outbreak within a month.
China sparks fear about Taiwan tensions, food shortages after families urged to stockpile 'daily necessities' (SCMP)
2021-11-03
Xi says green transition must be accelerated(China Daily)
2021-11-02
China must insist on zero-COVID policy now and here is why (GT)
2021-11-01
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China's import expo brings world towards brighter future (Xinhua)
2021-11-04
PBOC head urges fintech to secure data (China Daily)
2021-11-04
Tencent Unveils Three Computer Chips of Its Own Design (Caixin)
2021-11-04
Tencent Holdings Ltd., China's most valuable publicly traded software firm, touted its progress in getting into the hardware business on Wednesday when it announced it is making three computer chips of its own design. Though thin on detail, the announcement underscores the growing interest by Chinese companies in developing their own chips, which has recently seen big-name entrants like Xiaomi, Huawei and Alibaba. Domestic electronics firms have been pushing into the area of in-house chips to cut costs and win a competitive edge amid a global chip shortage, but software firms are also piling into the space. Tencent's archrival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unveiled a central processing unit (CPU) last month. They're also a draw for investors. As a regulatory storm lashed Chinese internet stocks, eroding a record $781 billion in value in the third quarter alone, hardware stocks have provided shelter. That's doubly so for chipmakers, which have long received strong policy support from an administration that is scrambling to patch China's supply chain vulnerabilities. Speaking at the company's Digital Ecosystem Summit in the central city of Wuhan, Tencent Vice President Qiu Yuepeng revealed plans for an AI computing chip, a video processor, and a network interface controller for cloud computing. "Tencent's investment in (in-house) chips is driven by the demands (of our business)," Tang Daosheng, chief executive of the company's cloud and smart industries group, told Caixin. Many technology firms that say they make their own chips actually work with a designer and tweak that firm's chips. Although some really do design new chips nearly from scratch, most license their basic architecture from Arm Ltd., meaning few are truly designed from the ground up. A spokesperson for Tencent would not comment on where the firm's new chips will be made. The firm, which established its Penglai Lab in 2020 to design and test semiconductors, did not display prototypes at the event or disclose what techniques will be used to make them. Tencent's artificial intelligence (AI) inference chip, called Zixiao, is designed to process images, video and natural language. […] Tencent is also backing Jaguar Microsystems, a one-year-old startup that develops data processors. Tencent's efforts to make its own chips will reduce costs and make better use of the company's core infrastructure, Tang explained. Specifically, using an AI chip of its own design will help the company optimize its cost structure because many of its services like search are based on AI algorithms. Chinese smartphone-makers Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi Corp. have also started making in-house chips to cut costs and differentiate their products from the competition. In-house chips can be 50% cheaper than those supplied by Intel or Qualcomm. Meanwhile, demand is growing stronger for an in-house video transcoding chip as an increasing number of industries are making greater use of video, such as health care, online education and livestreaming — all of which Tencent has dipped a toe into, Tang said. He went on to say that Tencent's in-house networking chip will be used to offload a portion of its computing burden to virtual networks in order to save energy. Despite these efforts, Tencent's chips are in the much earlier stage of development than those of its rivals. Alibaba released its first self-developed AI inference chip, the Hanguang 800, in 2019 and has used it across its e-commerce sites to handle functions that require lots of computational power. That same year, Alibaba's chipmaking subsidiary Pingtouge launched a processor chip called the XuanTie 910, which can be used in applications such as 5G telecommunications and autonomous driving. When it comes to developing more complex general-purpose chips, Tencent has also lagged behind Alibaba, which last month introduced its own CPU, the Yitian 710, for its Panjiu servers, which will drive its cloud computing operations. […] The competition is growing in China's public cloud infrastructure service market as companies are increasing their investments in the construction of their IaaS infrastructure platforms and are beefing up research into in-house chip design to strengthen their PaaS capabilities, IDC said in a report published last month.
China's services sector activity expands at faster pace due to rising demand, but inflation pressures loom (SCMP)
2021-11-03
Will China's proposed property tax be big enough to support struggling local governments? (SCMP)
2021-11-02
China factory activity lifted by strong demand, but power shortages and rising costs weigh on production (SCMP)
2021-11-01
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