China Executive Insights
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun said on Monday its in-house developed 3-nanometre flagship chip, the Xuanjie O1, has surpassed one million shipments, as the Chinese tech firm pushes deeper into advanced semiconductor design. Lei made the announcement at an invest…
51WORLD launched SimOne 4.0, an end-to-end autonomous driving simulation platform built on a world-model foundation, and was named the only Chinese partner in advanced simulation at NVIDIA GTC 2026, holding a 53.5% share of China’s high-level simulat…
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) today announced that, in accordance with laws and regulations, it has issued a decision prohibiting foreign investment in the acquisition of the general-purpose AI agent project Manus. It also…
Galbot, China’s highest-valued unlisted embodied AI firm at over RMB 20 billion ($2.8 billion), has released LDA-1B, a 1.6B-parameter world-action model that unifies world and action learning, demonstrates scaling behavior with heterogeneous data, an…
China’s Working Mechanism Office for the Security Review of Foreign Investment, under the National Development and Reform Commission, has barred a foreign acquisition of the Manus project and ordered the parties to unwind the transaction, in accordan…
OPPO, vivo, and Honor are accelerating into the handheld gimbal camera market, challenging DJI and Insta360 as smartphone brands leverage imaging AI and supply chain power to reshape the sector.
The mobile game Monster Hunter Outlanders, licensed by Capcom and developed by Tencent’s TiMi Studio Group, will begin its testing phase on April 29. This test will be a limited-availability, account-restricted, data-wipe beta with in-game purchases…
SHAREBOT raises a new multi-hundred-million RMB round to scale its robotics leasing platform, accelerating nationwide deployment and building a standardized robot delivery network across 100+ cities.
Last night, Yu Hao, CEO of Dreame Technology, posted a series of strong statements on his personal Weibo account, openly criticizing the Xiaohongshu platform in sharp and forceful terms. He said the platform suffers from serious issues in overall qua…
At the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, DeepRoute.ai signaled its shift from ADAS supplier to Physical AI infrastructure builder, combining a unified foundation model, large-scale real-world data, and the addition of ex-DeepSeek scientist Ruan Chong to bet on…
Intel has recently issued a warning to major cloud service providers in China that, due to a surge in demand for AI infrastructure and slower-than-expected yield ramp-up for its 18A process, server CPU supply will face severe shortages over the next…
Despite the flood of "female-centered" Chinese dramas, the women on screen have rarely felt more flat—trapped between hollow empowerment slogans and industrial formulas that recycle the same tired tropes. This essay cuts through the noise to argue th…