Despite PostgreSQL’s rapid global growth, MySQL remains the leading database in China, a gap explained by early Windows support, the entrenched LAMP stack, lower entry barriers, extensive tooling, and strong backing from major tech firms, as illustrated by trend data and ecosystem analysis.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of China’s cybersecurity grading (等级保护) system, covering its legal foundations, the transition to the 2.0 framework, the core standards, organizational responsibilities, classification procedures, filing requirements, and ongoing supervision.
The Chinese authorities fined the Quark platform 500,000 yuan and ordered NetEase CC to suspend updates to its dance section for seven days after finding massive pornographic content, illegal keywords, and severe breaches of network security laws, prompting both platforms to pledge comprehensive remediation and stricter content controls.
The 21st GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shanghai unveiled the latest DevOps capability maturity assessment results from major Chinese banks, highlighting pioneering evaluations, detailed improvements across configuration, monitoring, and user experience, and introducing the comprehensive DevOps maturity model that guides digital transformation.
Inner Mongolia Mobile’s Unified 4A System passed the CAICT DevSecOps Level‑2 security assessment, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices, cultural shifts, process improvements, and automation tools can elevate an enterprise’s security maturity and drive digital transformation.
This article analyzes 2023 Chinese software engineer compensation, revealing average salaries, the most generous employers, and the highest‑paying cities, while highlighting recent labor market trends and Beijing's detailed salary report.
The 2023 GPU graphics‑card report provides a comprehensive overview of China's graphics‑card industry, detailing current development, OEM product lines, the evolution of mining, post‑Ethereum‑merge market shifts, full‑chain analysis, and forecasts for downstream demand across gaming, AI, data‑center, and automotive applications.
The 2023 microprocessor chip technology report details the chip's definition, industry chain structure, market growth driven by AIoT, characteristic cycles, competitive landscape, and future trends, highlighting China's rapid market expansion, the gap with international leaders, and the rising importance of AI‑optimized processors.
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of China’s solid‑state drive (SSD) industry, covering its definition, classification, market size, growth drivers, business models, supply‑chain structure, competitive landscape, user segments, and future technological trends.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of China's six leading domestic server CPU manufacturers—Zhaoxin, HaiGuang, FeiTeng, KunPeng, Loongson, and ShenWei—examining their instruction‑set licensing models, product line‑ups, performance benchmarks, ecosystem maturity, and market prospects within the context of the country's digital‑economy and trust‑worthy computing initiatives.
The article defines high‑performance computing, presents China's dominant share in the Top500 supercomputer rankings, details recent global and Chinese HPC market growth rates, forecasts market size to 2026, and cites multiple industry reports as sources.
This guide explains why Vercel‑deployed static sites become inaccessible in mainland China due to DNS pollution, shows how to test the issue, and provides a simple CNAME reconfiguration using cname‑china.vercel‑dns.com to restore access.
MySQL 5.7 reaches its official End‑of‑Life in October 2023, exposing users to security, compliance, performance, and support risks, and the article outlines four migration paths—continuing with 5.7, upgrading to MySQL 8.0, switching to domestic open‑source forks like GreatSQL, or adopting commercial Chinese databases—while providing a detailed case study of GreatSQL’s suitability for Chinese enterprises.
IDC’s 2022 report shows China’s public‑cloud big data platform market reached 49.6 billion RMB with a 47.2% YoY surge, and Alibaba Cloud captured a leading 40.5% share, driven by its extensive product suite and strong industry adoption across finance, telecom, and manufacturing.
The article explains what eSIM is, its evolution from traditional SIM cards, Apple’s adoption, the recent suspension of eSIM services by China Mobile, Unicom and Telecom, and discusses potential bugs, security risks, and consumer advice regarding eSIM-enabled wearables.
The report builds a comprehensive GPU research framework evaluating performance through micro‑architecture, process, core count and frequency, examines ecosystem dominance of CUDA, dissects NVIDIA Fermi and Hopper designs, analyzes competitive histories of Nvidia and AMD, and forecasts domestic GPU market opportunities in AI data centers, autonomous vehicles, and gaming.
A recent data breach at Renmin University's website exposed thousands of students' personal information, revealing that the hacker, a former graduate student with a strong academic record and industry experience, was arrested, highlighting serious privacy and information security concerns in China.
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the newest DevOps Capability Maturity Model evaluation results, showing that 78 leading firms across banking, finance, internet, and telecom sectors have collectively completed 224 projects, highlighting the impact of standardization and tool empowerment on enterprise competitiveness.
Amid China’s push for digital and domestic technology, the article examines the evolution of native database products, the opportunities and challenges they face—especially in the financial sector—and how policy, cloud‑native architectures, distributed systems, and multi‑cloud demands are driving the next wave of innovation.
The article explains how Microsoft PC Guard is silently installed on Windows PCs in China through Microsoft Edge, describes two user-reported scenarios, reveals the download locations, and provides guidance on detecting and uninstalling the software.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of China's power management chip market, detailing its steady growth, market size, classifications, industry characteristics, supply chain analysis, competitive landscape, and offering related downloadable research reports.
According to StatCounter data, Microsoft’s Bing captured 37.4% of China’s desktop search market in April 2023, surpassing Baidu, while also expanding its AI capabilities with GPT‑3.5 and GPT‑4 integration and increasing chat limits, signaling a shift toward conversational, AI‑driven search experiences.
Using eight years of Chinese recruitment data, the article analyses how large language models like GPT could automate specific tasks across thousands of jobs, presents the most and least vulnerable occupations, and explores the relationship between wage growth, job experience, and AI replaceability.
The China Communications Standards Association announced the launch of the Software Process Quality Audit and Assurance Capability Maturity Model at its April 2023 TC1 meeting, outlining national quality initiatives, the model’s role in improving software governance, and a call for industry participation before May 19.
Using eight years of Chinese recruitment data mapped to O*net, the study breaks down occupations into thousands of tasks, lets GPT score each for automation potential, and reveals the top and bottom jobs by AI replacement risk along with the economic factors that drive these trends.
In a keynote at the first OceanBase Developer Conference, Professor Zhou Aoying outlines the evolution of database technology, its role as a foundational data‑power platform, the importance of benchmarks for distributed databases, and the vision for a unified Data Power Platform in China’s digital economy.
Beijing's National FinTech Certification Center announced that five fintech products, including AntChain MOSS and Ant Wind Tunnel multi‑party secure computation platforms, have passed the country's first national certification for multi‑party secure computation, highlighting the technology's growing importance in finance and data security.
The article analyzes post‑pandemic salary changes in China for various tech positions—including backend (Java, PHP, Python), frontend, network security, mobile, testing, operations, data analysis, algorithm engineering, and architecture—showing modest growth in most areas with notable declines for Python and Android developers.
The article analyzes the rapid growth of the global enterprise SSD market, detailing technical differences among interfaces, buses and protocols, mapping the supply chain from NAND flash to controllers and firmware, and highlighting China's accelerating domestic production and market share gains through 2025.
A recent police crackdown in China uncovered six pornographic comic apps and revealed that shady “app re‑branding” services help such illegal content bypass app‑store reviews by swapping file packages, highlighting the technical tricks, regulatory response, and the broader industry implications.
The article analyzes China's automotive simulation market—covering CAD, CAE, and CAM technologies, their roles in product design, performance analysis, and manufacturing, projected growth from 33 billion yuan in 2021 to 77.8 billion yuan by 2026 with a 15.4% CAGR, key players, supply‑chain structure, and future challenges.
The article outlines a coordinated approach to building eight fundamental data governance systems—including property rights, circulation, transaction, usage, revenue distribution, credit, governance, and security—while emphasizing the role of the National Data Bureau, government, enterprises, and individuals in shaping China’s data policy landscape.
The Gartner 2022 China HCI report reveals a rapidly maturing hyper‑converged infrastructure market, detailing growth forecasts, expanding use cases from VDI to edge and hybrid cloud, and a competitive shift toward domestic vendors across large‑scale, specialist, and crossover categories.
This article examines how a blockchain‑based platform built by ICBC and the Huangshan Rural Property Rights Trading Center modernizes rural land and asset transactions in China, addressing information asymmetry, fund supervision, and digitization challenges while delivering win‑win benefits for farmers, governments, and banks.
The article examines how ChatGPT has ignited a nationwide investment surge in China, prompting tech giants and venture capitalists to launch competing large‑language‑model projects, outlining the model’s core capabilities, and exploring its far‑reaching impact on industries and the strategic moves of companies like iFlytek.
Baidu is set to introduce a ChatGPT‑like conversational AI chatbot integrated into its search service in March, aiming to regain market influence amid competition, while Chinese developers and startups also race to commercialise generative AI, prompting a notable rise in Baidu’s stock.
The report evaluates Chinese cloud vendors across six dimensions—infra, architecture, PaaS, AI, industry understanding, and security—traces the industry's history, highlights rapid market growth, compares global players, predicts future technical directions, and proposes strategic recommendations for sustained innovation.
Nanjing University, the first C9 university to launch an AI institute, tops national AI program rankings, boasts a 96% employment rate for its 2022 graduates, and reports impressive average salaries of 303,800 RMB for undergraduates and 482,100 RMB for master’s students.
The 2022 H1 Chinese cloud market report reveals that Alibaba Cloud leads the IaaS and IaaS+PaaS segments, Amazon ranks second, while Huawei and Tencent hold third places, with overall market size reaching 1.956 trillion yuan and growth slowed by macro‑economic uncertainty, prompting a shift toward refined multi‑cloud ecosystems.
The article analyzes the 2022 global and Chinese supercomputing markets, detailing current market shares, growth trends, future market potential, and competitive dynamics, while highlighting China's rapid performance gains, domestic chip localization, and shifting supplier rankings in the high‑performance computing sector.
From its early adoption in 2010 to becoming a catalyst for Chinese cloud innovation, OpenStack's evolution in China—highlighting the rise of local startups, venture funding, foundation dynamics, and the broader impact on the nation's cloud computing landscape—is examined in this comprehensive analysis.
This article summarizes Jiang Zemin’s 2008 paper on China’s information technology industry, highlighting his 24‑character strategic guideline, the emphasis on autonomous innovation in microelectronics, software, cloud computing, and the enduring relevance of his insights for today’s tech development.
This article walks readers through the complete point‑to‑point, end‑to‑end payment chain in China, using a JD.com purchase of Three Squirrels nuts as a concrete example to illustrate the roles of the cashier, order, transaction, payment, settlement, and accounting subsystems within a typical e‑commerce payment architecture.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the end‑to‑end Chinese internet payment architecture, illustrating the flow from e‑commerce platforms through checkout, third‑party payment channels, banking networks, clearing and settlement, and detailing the roles of components such as the cashier, transaction core, membership, payment, accounting and clearing systems.
This article outlines the development of a Chinese city green competitiveness index, detailing its theoretical basis, four evaluation dimensions, indicator hierarchy, weighting methodology, and the final structure of 4 primary, 8 secondary, and 44 tertiary indicators.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of China's six leading domestic server CPU manufacturers, detailing their instruction‑set classifications, product lineups, performance specifications, ecosystem integration, and market positioning, and predicts short‑term beneficiaries and long‑term industry trends.
This article compiles the latest salary offers, benefits, and ranking tiers for Chinese military research institutes, explains how to evaluate and choose among them, and compares these positions with other industries to help engineers make informed career decisions.
China Minsheng Bank’s centralized operation business processing system passed the Level 2 technical operation assessment of the national DevOps maturity model, showcasing how standardized DevOps practices, continuous delivery pipelines, and cross‑team collaboration can boost efficiency, safety, and competitiveness in the banking sector.
China’s 14th Five-Year Plan and 2035 Vision prioritize AI, prompting a shift from proof‑of‑concept to product deployment; the newly released Model Delivery standard, part of the Model/MLOps maturity model, defines five maturity levels and a reusable pipeline to boost AI engineering across industries.
The 2021 Global Top Scientist Ranking, covering 186,177 scientists from 22 fields, shows the United States dominating with 40.7% while Chinese researchers account for about 5%, highlighting a few mainland scholars in the top 200 and spotlighting Zhu Jiankang’s outstanding contributions in life sciences.
In an exclusive interview, MariaDB founder Michael "Monty" Widenius discusses the rapid growth of China’s database industry, the rise of open‑source adoption, competition with cloud providers, and strategic plans for expanding MariaDB’s presence in the Chinese market.
This article breaks down China’s end‑to‑end internet payment architecture, using a JD.com purchase of Three Squirrels nuts to illustrate the full chain from the e‑commerce platform, through cashiers, third‑party payment providers, banking channels, and finally the People’s Bank of China, while detailing each subsystem’s role.
Recent reports reveal that Google Translate’s mainland China domain translate.google.cn now redirects to a search page and ultimately to the Hong Kong site, rendering the service inaccessible for Chinese users, while underlying issues stem from censored training data, outdated infrastructure, and past attempts to revive Google’s search in China.
The article examines why software localization is essential for China’s data technology, outlines the challenges and current state of domestic operating systems, databases and big‑data platforms, discusses migration and upgrade strategies, and introduces NetEase DataFun’s self‑developed big‑data platform with its features and support.
The article reflects on the rise and fall of China's internet boom, compares the career prospects of computer science and civil engineering, and argues that despite recent layoffs, computer science remains a strong, versatile field for those who truly enjoy programming and problem‑solving.
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology renamed its Information Engineering Department to the Metaverse Engineering Department, reflecting the surge of metaverse interest and its integration into the university's AI college, sparking mixed reactions from the public.
The article provides an overview of China's integrated circuit industry, highlighting its late start, recent policy support, market growth projections to 2026, the dominance of foreign firms in the supply chain, key domestic companies in EDA and wafer manufacturing, and the global competitive landscape.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology outlines China’s current eSIM research and promotion efforts, highlights its benefits for devices, and explains regulatory, security, and operator challenges that delay eSIM adoption in smartphones, while noting existing IoT and smartwatch deployments.
In September 2022, China recruited 416,547 programmers with an average salary of 14,616 CNY and a median of 12,800 CNY, and the report details city‑wise average, minimum, median, and maximum salaries as well as hiring numbers for various programming roles such as Java, front‑end, back‑end, AI, and big‑data positions.
China announced a plan to replace Windows with Linux on over 50 million PCs, echoing Germany’s earlier shift, aiming to eliminate foreign operating systems, reduce licensing costs, and boost domestic tech, while prompting mixed reactions from hardware manufacturers and software vendors.
The 2022 Chinese domestic operating system development report analyzes the current landscape of desktop and server OSes, examines industry experiences, outlines market dynamics, discusses open‑source community impacts, and forecasts future trends amid policy support and ecosystem challenges.
The 2022 China Cloud Computing Ecosystem report defines cloud services, presents market growth figures, maps the ecosystem across infrastructure, platform, SaaS, and verticals, and outlines nine major industry trends—from edge‑distributed cloud to zero‑trust security—offering insight into opportunities and investment hotspots.
The 2022 report estimates China's Xinchang (information technology innovation) market to reach 16,689.4 billion yuan, highlights a county‑level market three times larger than city‑level, and outlines rapid growth, key players, and cross‑industry integration as major drivers of the sector.
This report examines the rapid development, challenges, and future prospects of China's domestic CPU industry, covering market growth, technological breakthroughs, ecosystem building, and strategic considerations for manufacturers and policymakers in the global context.
The U.S. added cutting‑edge electronic design automation (EDA) software and related semiconductor technologies to its export control list, prompting concerns about short‑term disruptions and long‑term constraints on China's advanced chip design while also spurring domestic EDA development.
The 2022 Chinese Xinchang industry is projected to reach 166.9 billion CNY, with rapid growth driven by the booming digital economy, Huawei leading the top‑100 enterprises, and cloud‑computing‑centric ecosystem integration becoming a key development model for the sector.
As cloud computing becomes essential infrastructure, cloud‑native systems gain flexibility but face stability challenges, prompting China’s Academy of Information and Communications Technology to launch a 2022 chaos engineering survey that uncovers vulnerabilities and promotes practical adoption of reliability techniques across the industry.
The July 2022 China Database Popularity Ranking lists 232 databases with DM moving up to second place, while IDC reports a $15.8 billion market in H2 2021 growing 34.9% year‑over‑year and predicts the sector will reach $95.5 billion by 2026, accompanied by a collection of monthly analysis PDFs and extensive resources on active‑active disaster‑recovery solutions.
This article details how Hai Fa Bao Cheng's "Jing Yuan Bao" management platform passed the Level‑3 DevOps continuous delivery assessment, showcasing the practical benefits, metrics improvements, and strategic insights of adopting standardized DevOps practices for digital transformation in the financing leasing industry.
This article surveys the major Chinese open‑source Linux distributions that serve as CentOS replacements—including OpenEuler, Anolis OS, UnionTech UOS, Alibaba Cloud Linux, TencentOS, KylinOS, Deepin, Red Flag and Ubuntu‑Kylin—detailing their origins, compatibility, key features, and typical cloud or enterprise use cases.
The article introduces China’s newly launched OpenKylin desktop operating system developer platform, explains its open‑source community model, highlights the current landscape of domestic OSes, and underscores the security imperative of achieving autonomous control over core software amid foreign dominance.
An in‑depth analysis reveals that JiHu, the GitLab‑backed joint venture in China, claims local decision‑making but is actually controlled by GitLab through majority equity, consolidated financial reporting, and restrictive security policies, raising serious governance and national‑security concerns.
The report estimates that China's Xinchuang (independent‑innovation) market across eight strategic industries encompasses over 2.3 million PCs and 0.57 million servers, representing more than 1 trillion CNY in PC hardware and 2.5 trillion CNY in server hardware, with an annualized market potential exceeding 900 billion CNY when combined with government sector demand.
OpenCloudOS, China’s first fully domestic server operating system, has transitioned from a mere open‑source user to a leading contributor, launching its L1 source community and L3 full‑package version, expanding ecosystem partnerships, and outlining a roadmap that promises future server, desktop, embedded, and edge OS releases.
OpenCloudOS, the newly released domestic open‑source server operating system, offers a full‑chain Chinese supply of kernel and software, supports both x86_64 and arm64, and has already been deployed on over ten million machines across key industries, signaling a major shift in China’s OS ecosystem.
The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security has issued final export‑control rules that place China in a restricted “D‑class,” requiring prior licensing for any cybersecurity vulnerability information shared with government‑linked entities, while allowing limited exemptions for legitimate security work and sparking strong opposition from Microsoft.
The article reviews the five‑year impact of China’s Cybersecurity Law, highlights progress in legal‑driven security governance, and details Ant Group’s advanced network and data security architectures, privacy‑preserving computing techniques, and collaborative recommendations for tackling emerging cyber threats.
The article explores the concept of digitalization, its benefits, real‑world wartime applications in Ukraine such as Air Alert and Diya, and parallels these innovations with China’s pandemic‑era tools and government mini‑programs, ultimately urging programmers to drive the next wave of digital transformation.
The National Bureau of Statistics published 2021 average wage figures showing urban non‑private employees earning 106,837 CNY annually, with the IT‑related sector topping the list, while netizens debated the data’s realism and implications for various professions.
The article introduces the 2022 China AIOps Current Situation Survey, explains how rapid data growth and digital transformation are driving intelligent operations, outlines the joint effort of over 60 enterprises to compile the report, and invites industry professionals to contribute their insights through an online questionnaire.
Amid China’s digital transformation, leading banks have adopted the CAICT‑led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, completing dozens of assessments that improve IT performance, integrate resources, and provide valuable industry benchmarks for continuous delivery, technical operations, and security management.
The February 2022 DB‑Engines ranking shows Snowflake’s rapid rise, a sharp decline for Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, stable positions for Elasticsearch, and detailed score trends across relational, key‑value, document, time‑series and graph databases, highlighting five popularity metrics used for the assessment.
This article examines how major Chinese social platforms have begun openly displaying users' IP‑based location tags, explains the technical mechanisms behind the feature, analyzes its accuracy and privacy concerns, and discusses the role of MCN networks and third‑party IP databases.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of China's Xinchuang industry—defining its scope, mapping its hardware‑software‑application‑security value chain, presenting 2019‑2020 market size data, analyzing key sub‑segments such as CPUs, storage chips, operating systems, databases, middleware, cloud platforms and information security, and projecting a market exceeding two trillion yuan by 2026.
This article explains how IPv4 addresses are structured, why the world hasn't run out of them despite early warnings, how the IANA‑RIR‑ISP hierarchy distributes them, and provides detailed statistics on China's IPv4 holdings and the challenges slowing IPv6 adoption.
The April 2022 survey of 164,126 programmer salary records across China reveals an average monthly pay of 16,019 CNY, a median of 13,000 CNY, and a 90% range of 5,250 CNY to 37,500 CNY, while detailed city and career tables show regional and functional variations in wages and job demand.
The 2022 China Database Industry Analysis Report examines market growth, product diversity, and competitive dimensions, detailing relational, NoSQL, and NewSQL classifications, open‑source concepts, and the challenges and opportunities facing domestic database vendors amid rising investment and geopolitical pressures.
The article examines Go's origin, rapid adoption in China since 2014, market hiring trends, popularity metrics like TIOBE rankings, and highlights the language's ease of use, strong tooling, corporate backing, and cloud‑native ecosystem as the main drivers of its success.
China’s central bank has integrated its digital RMB into WeChat, expanding pilot cities to include major urban areas and aiming to make the CBDC a common payment option alongside dominant platforms like Alipay and WeChat Pay.
Chinese domestic GPU development has accelerated rapidly, driven by fast‑track product launches, strategic IP licensing from firms like Imagination Technologies, and supportive policies, while industry players navigate challenges of patents, design complexity, and market competition to bring full‑function GPUs to market.
The article critically examines whether China's leading internet giants—Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent—qualify as high‑technology firms by evaluating their contributions to core IT foundations, open‑source projects, management practices, and the broader impact on talent and innovation.
Chinese mainland users encounter a regional restriction message and HTTP 451 error when trying to install several popular ad‑blocking extensions from the Firefox Add‑ons store, a situation linked to past legal disputes over ad‑blocking in China.
The article analyzes how comprehensive Western sanctions against Russia are prompting China to accelerate self‑reliance in foundational software, examines Oracle's pivotal role in Chinese enterprises, and discusses the strategic, technical, and market obstacles to achieving a successful "de‑IOE" transition.
A recent report shows that mainland Chinese users receive a regional restriction message and HTTP 451 error when trying to access four popular ad‑blocking extensions on the Firefox Add‑ons website, likely due to legal constraints stemming from past lawsuits against Mozilla's Chinese subsidiary.
The article explains the definitions of informationization and digital transformation, compares their technical, demand, core‑goal, and ecosystem differences, and analyzes how digital technologies such as cloud, big data and AI are reshaping industries, enterprise strategies, talent needs, and overall competitiveness in China.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of AI chips—including GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs—their architectural distinctions, cloud and edge deployment models, market dynamics in China, and key application scenarios such as autonomous driving, smart security, and IoT devices.
The Chinese government’s “East Data West Compute” program launches a nationwide network of eight computing hubs and ten data‑center clusters to shift massive data processing from the east to the west, balancing compute supply and demand, promoting green energy use, and spurring regional economic development.
China's domestic CPU industry, once nascent, has rapidly progressed through three phases—initial development, transition, and acceleration—producing key players such as Phytium, Kunpeng, Haiguang, Loongson, Zhaoxin, and Shenwei, each advancing performance, ecosystem, and security to challenge foreign incumbents.
The article examines the long‑standing issue of pre‑installed, often non‑removable apps on Chinese Android smartphones, explains the 2015 and upcoming Ministry of Industry and Information Technology regulations requiring all pre‑installed apps (except core functions) to be uninstallable, and discusses the commercial motives behind bloatware.
The article examines how U.S. export restrictions target Russian and Chinese chip sectors, outlines the geopolitical tensions surrounding semiconductor supply chains, and contrasts Russia's military‑focused chip development with China's rapid growth in consumer electronics manufacturing.
