The Belt Shenzhen has released version 3.0 of its 20+8 strategic emerging-industry and future-industry plan, laying out where the city’s manufacturing economy is headed through 2030. The plan sets a headline target: by 2030, strategic emerging industries should reach 2.3 trillion yuan in added value and account for 45 per cent of GDP. The 20 covers ten … Read more
The humanoid-robot sector has entered its capital-realisation phase. AgiBot has confirmed it has launched the process for a Hong Kong listing, and it timed the announcement to land on the very day the exchange’s new listing rules took effect. The message was not a surprise. Rumours of an IPO have circulated for half a year. … Read more
A clear regulatory signal is circulating in China’s auto industry: the external ‘blue light’ that marks a car’s assisted-driving system as active will be banned on all passenger cars, because it fails the national standard GB4785 on the installation of exterior lighting and light-signal devices. The blue light is a recent add-on from many new-force … Read more
Most people’s first impression of AI customer service is poor. The parcel never arrived, yet the bot loops ‘delivered.’ The question is half-asked before the system jumps topics and answers the wrong thing. Reach a human at last, and you repeat the whole story from scratch. That fatigue is universal – and it has been … Read more
This past month Silicon Valley shipped GPT-5.6, Fable 5 and Grok-4.5, and China’s developer community lit up with benchmarks and debates. Yet for all the buzz, the country’s homegrown large models remain in a strange state: critically acclaimed, commercially cold. The usage-versus-revenue gap is widening. OpenRouter data for 22-28 June shows Chinese models handled 20.39 … Read more
Zhongji Innolight (stock code 03308) listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 30 July. The company priced at HK$980 per share, sold 54.5 million shares and raised HK$53.4 billion; after listing fees of RMB 519 million, net proceeds came to HK$52.89 billion. With a board lot of 50 shares, a single allocation cost nearly … Read more
ByteDance’s AI push just took its most concrete organisational turn yet. On 30 July, according to Phoenix Tech, the company sent an internal memo announcing that its Feishu (Lark) product team and its Doubao model product team will be merged into a new Doubao product unit, led by Doubao head Zhao Qi, with Feishu head … Read more
Industrial embodied intelligence just cleared a practical hurdle. Topstar, a Dongguan-based smart-manufacturing equipment maker, has built a complete industrial data-iteration loop with Wuwen Zhike, a physical-AI data-platform company — letting embodied robots iterate quickly, reuse standardized components and deploy at batch scale. Wuwen Zhike was among the first in the sector to ship a physical-AI … Read more
Hikvision’s 2026 interim report, released this week, offered a clean read on where China’s robotics segment is heading. The surveillance giant posted group revenue of 46.82 billion yuan, up 11.97 percent year on year, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 7.90 billion yuan, up 39.57 percent, and gross margin climbing to 49.97 percent. The … Read more
On July 28, the US Federal Communications Commission updated its “Covered List,” adding foreign-made advanced robotics — humanoids and quadrupeds — and grid-tied power inverters. The stated rationale was familiar: supply-chain vulnerabilities, cyber risk, threats to critical infrastructure. Officially the rule names “foreign-made” equipment. But Reuters, the BBC and Politico all put China in the … Read more