China has set aggressive IPv6 adoption targets, aiming for hundreds of millions of users and devices by 2023 and 2025, mandating IPv6‑only routers and networks, and building a nationwide test infrastructure to achieve a single‑stack internet within five years.
Chinese authorities have ordered government bodies and key enterprises to investigate the use of open‑source tools SonarQube and Vue.js amid claims that foreign hackers are exploiting these platforms, prompting a public response from Vue.js founder Evan You about the projects' security posture.
The State Council’s notice issues the 14th Five-Year Plan for Digital Economy Development, outlining China’s current digital economy status, strategic goals, infrastructure upgrades, data governance, industry digitalization, security measures, and international cooperation to drive high‑quality, inclusive growth through data and technology.
This article presents a data-driven ranking of hourly wages for Chinese internet companies across junior to expert-level software engineering positions, explaining the calculation method, highlighting top-paying firms, and noting limitations of the data source.
China's new five‑year roadmap targets a 20% annual growth in robot industry revenue, aiming to double robot density per 10,000 workers by 2025, while boosting domestic core component performance to match foreign standards and expanding high‑end robot applications across multiple sectors.
The article investigates recent rumors that VPN usage has been subject to large‑scale administrative penalties in China, examines official Zhejiang government records, reveals that most reported cases were either errors or retractions, and clarifies the legal restrictions on unauthorized international networking.
China’s leading bank shares how its intelligent customer‑service semantic‑matching and multimodal service analysis models passed the AI model risk‑governance maturity assessment, detailing the governance measures, challenges faced, and future plans, while the CAICT framework that underpins the evaluation is explained.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of China's cloud computing market, detailing 2020 market size, growth rates for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, forecasts to 2025, major domestic providers, Alibaba Cloud's profitability and chip development, as well as related security and privacy computing trends.
This article analyses the current state of China's industrial software—covering EDA, CAD, and CAE markets—highlighting domestic market shares, the dominance of foreign giants, development difficulties, misconceptions, and the key factors that hinder the growth of home‑grown solutions.
This article explains the total number of IPv4 addresses worldwide, details China's allocated IPv4 blocks, shows how to extract and sum them using a script, and compares the IP holdings of major Chinese cloud providers and global giants like Amazon.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of the global and Chinese cloud computing markets, detailing 2020 market sizes for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, forecasts growth to 2025, major Chinese vendors, Alibaba Cloud's profitability and chip development, as well as the convergence of cloud, security, zero‑trust and privacy‑computing technologies.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of China's semiconductor sector, detailing the four main semiconductor categories, the structure of the integrated circuit industry, market size, supply‑chain modules, technology gaps, investment trends, and key reports released in 2021.
This article explains the total number of IPv4 addresses worldwide, details special‑purpose ranges, shows how to retrieve and parse APNIC’s allocation data to calculate China’s share, compares figures from CNNIC and cloud providers like Alibaba Cloud, and highlights the discrepancy between advertised and actual address pools.
Amid a harsh 2021 winter, major Chinese internet firms such as ByteDance, iQiyi, Tencent, Baidu and others have launched sweeping layoffs, reduced benefits, and tightened KPIs, reflecting a broader industry shift toward cost‑cutting, business line optimization, and a focus on core growth markets.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology warns that the domestic software sector lags internationally and outlines a comprehensive plan—ranging from talent cultivation and open‑source community building to big‑data expansion—to transform the industry by 2025.
After the golden era of rapid growth, Chinese software engineers reaching age 35 face a career crossroads marked by age bias, shrinking opportunities, and a shift toward stability, prompting many to reconsider management roles, alternative careers, or further education to secure their future.
This article presents a data‑driven hourly‑wage ranking of major Chinese internet firms across junior to expert engineering levels, explaining the calculation method, highlighting top‑paying companies, and offering insights for job seekers evaluating compensation per unit time.
The 2021 China Integrated Circuit Market Research Report analyzes recent three‑year trends, showing rising shares for MPU and logic chips, declining DRAM, stable analog and MCU, while detailing the market positions, growth rates, and challenges of CPU, GPU, FPGA, ASIC, and flash storage technologies.
The article examines why Chinese B2B companies, despite long work hours and abundant talent, lag behind U.S. counterparts in cloud services and product quality, attributing the gap to sales‑driven strategies, low incentive for high‑quality products, and cultural differences in engineering practices.
The article reviews McKinsey Global Institute’s analysis of China’s digital transformation, highlighting how internet adoption drives productivity gains, reshapes labor markets, and contributes 7‑22% to GDP growth by 2025 across sectors such as manufacturing, automotive, finance, real estate, and healthcare, while emphasizing the need for top‑level design, talent development, and governance.
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of China's domestic CPU ecosystem, examining the technical distinctions between architectures and instruction sets, the security implications of relying on foreign designs, and the strategic balance needed between indigenous development and imported technologies to advance the nation's semiconductor industry.
This article provides a comprehensive collection of public DNS server IP addresses, including nationwide providers and province‑specific Telecom, Unicom, and Mobile DNS entries across China, helping users optimize network resolution and connectivity.
The 2021 China PaaS market research report reveals a 2020 market size of 280.5 billion CNY with a 48% CAGR, classifies PaaS into four core value types, highlights technology‑enablement PaaS as the dominant segment, and outlines vendor distribution, user preferences, and emerging trends such as integration services, trust‑innovation, and carbon‑neutral solutions.
The DevOps International Summit in Beijing announced that 42 enterprises covering 108 projects achieved level‑3 maturity in the CAICT DevOps Capability Model, highlighting the impact of standardized tools and processes on software delivery efficiency across finance, telecom and other sectors.
The October 2023 programmer salary report reveals that Chinese developers in first‑tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen earn the highest wages, with architects reaching 60,000 CNY, while the United States averages $110,000 per year, highlighting a significant gap between the two markets.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Chinese graph database market, covering its origins, government policies, market size estimates, vendor rankings, funding activities, product features, challenges, and future prospects, while referencing numerous industry reports and case studies.
This article traces the emergence and evolution of Newhua County’s copy‑printing industry—from 1960s typewriter repairs to a nationwide network of repair shops, second‑hand markets, and equipment manufacturing—highlighting its social roots, ladder‑style development, research methods, key findings, and lasting impact on China’s office‑equipment sector.
The article argues that over the past decade China's rapid, short‑term development model has created a serious talent gap in software architecture for B2B and industrial internet sectors, limiting the country's core competitiveness despite flourishing consumer‑facing tech companies.
This article outlines how major Chinese banks have adopted the CAICT-led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, presenting participation numbers, describing the standard’s development and global significance, and providing contact details for further engagement.
The 2021 China DevOps Landscape Survey, conducted by the Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance with 1,862 valid responses across multiple sectors, reveals that over half of Chinese enterprises have reached comprehensive DevOps maturity, agile development is widespread, DevSecOps adoption exceeds 50%, and IAST tools, especially Xmirror’s LingMai, dominate the security tooling market.
This article analyzes the 2021 Chinese UI/UX design trends by examining major product case studies, user demographics, and emerging visual techniques such as 3D elements, glass‑like materials, card‑based layouts, colored shadows, light gradients, and micro‑interactions.
The 2021 China PaaS and SaaS market research report reveals that the PaaS market reached 280.5 billion yuan in 2020 with a 48% CAGR, forecasts a 2 trillion‑yuan size by 2025, highlights the dominance of technology‑enabled PaaS, and outlines key vendor, user, and emerging‑technology trends.
The article presents official definitions and recent statistics showing that new‑generation migrant workers, especially those in information technology services, have experienced the highest employment growth and income increases among all sectors in China, highlighting the expanding role of "code farmers" in the modern economy.
A roundup of recent developments—from China's strict regulations on connected‑vehicle data storage and mandatory cybersecurity officers, to Baidu and ByteDance's massive campus hiring drives, Alibaba's leadership reshuffle, Lenovo's earnings surge, the formation of the eBPF Foundation, and Linux 5.15's added support for Qualcomm Adreno GPUs—highlights how policy, talent, and open‑source innovations are shaping the tech landscape.
This article explains how to identify Chinese prefecture‑level cities with populations over five million, classify them by tier, and create an animated bubble map using Python libraries such as geopandas, pandas, matplotlib and imageio, finally exporting the result as an HTML page and GIF.
The article analyzes how the widening gap between CPU compute growth and network bandwidth drives the rapid emergence of smart NICs, outlines their functions, market forecasts, industry chain, key technologies such as EDA and IP cores, and compares global leaders with Chinese vendors, highlighting technical challenges and future trends.
On July 15, 2021, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology unveiled the 2021 China DevOps Status Survey Report, detailing the nation’s digital transformation, the growing demand for rapid software delivery, the extensive multi‑company survey methodology, and key findings on DevOps adoption and future trends.
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of China’s DPU market in 2021, covering DPU definitions, classifications, technology roadmaps, industry chain, business models, key applications, competitive landscape, and future trends in data centers, edge computing, telecom, and autonomous driving.
From January to May 2021, China’s software and IT services sector maintained rapid revenue growth, with a 22.6% increase in software business income, a 18.3% rise in total profit, while export growth slowed, and regional and sectoral analyses reveal varied performance across the industry.
A recent Chinese court case reveals that a university graduate used a custom web‑crawler to harvest more than 1.18 billion Taobao user records, which were then sold to a partner who ran fraudulent WeChat groups, leading to both perpetrators’ conviction for violating personal information protection laws.
The 2021 China Basic Cloud Services Industry Report analyzes the accelerating adoption of public cloud, pandemic‑driven demand growth, market concentration among top IaaS providers, emerging PaaS influences, overseas expansion strategies, and the shifting needs of both internet and traditional sector customers.
In September 2022, Nantong police uncovered China's first nationwide case of illegal WeChat user data harvesting using a "clean fan" application, leading to the arrest of eight suspects who were convicted for illegally obtaining computer system data and controlling systems, highlighting severe information security risks.
This article presents recent Chinese programming language market share figures, average and median programmer salaries, regional wage differences, and functional role distributions, highlighting trends such as stagnant median pay despite rising averages and shifting city salary rankings.
At the 2021 GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shenzhen, Southern Power Grid’s Digital Grid Research Institute shared how its DevOps empowerment program is boosting software engineering, CI/CD pipelines, and digital transformation, illustrating the plan’s goals, achievements, and future expectations for the energy sector.
The 2021 China Xinchang (information technology innovation) industry development report analyzes the ecosystem, covering hardware components like chips and sensors, foundational software including operating systems, cloud OS, databases and middleware, market participants, and strategic challenges for achieving autonomous, secure IT infrastructure.
In his May 2021 address to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the China Association for Science and Technology, President Xi Jinping stressed the strategic importance of scientific self‑reliance, outlined achievements in basic research, high‑tech industries, and defense, and called for deeper reforms, talent cultivation, and global cooperation to build a world‑class innovation system.
The 2021 GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shenzhen showcased the Enterprise‑level DevOps Empowerment program, featuring interviews with First Capital Securities on their digital transformation, DevOps maturity journey, and the benefits of joining the collaborative initiative.
The 2020 CAICT whitepaper collection analyzes China’s rapidly growing cloud‑native market, clarifies its definition, outlines the ecosystem across five major categories, presents 2020 market size and adoption statistics, and introduces a new security framework to address emerging risks.
This article compiles a comprehensive list of well‑known internet and IT companies operating in China's first‑ and second‑tier cities, offering brief commentary on each city's tech ecosystem and highlighting notable firms for job seekers and industry observers.
The 2020 NetInfo Autonomous Innovation Report, compiled by over 30 experts and 100 vendors, reviews five years of China’s domestic chip, firmware, OS, whole‑machine, storage, database, middleware, IP network, office software, secure browser and printer developments, analyzes CPU architecture differences, and outlines the competitive landscape of domestic CPU manufacturers.
The CNCF 2020‑2021 Cloud Native Survey in China reveals rapid growth in container usage, widespread adoption of Kubernetes, increased reliance on public cloud, expanding CI/CD and serverless practices, and a surge in the use of CNCF projects, highlighting the maturing cloud‑native ecosystem across Chinese enterprises.
The 2021 China DevOps Survey, launched by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology with nearly 40 industry partners, invites organizations to assess their DevOps maturity, offers a free report and gifts, and builds on 2020 findings that show growing adoption and varied maturity levels across sectors.
This report analyzes the 2020 Chinese independent developer landscape based on 590 questionnaires and interviews, revealing their demographics, distribution, gender imbalance, income levels, work habits, challenges, and the support they need to thrive as freelancers or small‑team creators.
The 2020 China DevOps Status Survey reveals that while over 60% of companies have adopted DevOps, many still struggle to assess its success, highlighting key performance criteria, maturity levels, and ongoing challenges such as expertise gaps and metric definition.
In March 2021, a survey of 124,176 Chinese programmers showed an average salary of 15,189 CNY, a median of 12,500 CNY, with 95% of earnings ranging from 5,250 CNY to 37,500 CNY, and highlighted regional and functional variations.
The China Cloud Computing Industry Development White Paper analyzes the rapid growth of cloud services, detailing the industry chain, domestic chip initiatives, major cloud providers, database and cloud‑native advancements, and outlines strategic recommendations for autonomous, secure, and high‑quality cloud development in China.
The article presents a 2020 salary ranking of major Chinese internet companies, categorizing compensation for junior, mid‑level, senior, and veteran engineers, explaining salary components, showing visual charts, and calling for greater transparency in industry pay structures.
The article reports on ByteDance’s former cafeteria chief’s bribery conviction, Microsoft’s potential $10 billion Discord acquisition, Apple’s urgent security patch, Bilibili’s filing error, and a comprehensive analysis of China’s software sector in Jan‑Feb 2021, highlighting rapid revenue growth, profit gains, and regional performance.
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of China’s Xinchuang industry in 2023, detailing its $104.3 billion market size, the domestic CPU ecosystem, operating system adoption, database and middleware players, and the rapidly growing information‑security sector driven by cloud and IoT technologies.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of China's cloud computing industry, covering government, financial, medical, energy, and telecom cloud markets, the main participants, service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deployment modes, industry chain, market status, and future trends.
The article examines the rapid growth of China's beauty market, the rise of AR virtual try‑on and skin‑detection technologies, and how JD Retail Cloud's solutions boost consumer engagement, conversion rates, and drive digital transformation in the industry.
The report presents the methodology, grading system, 2019 performance data, and key characteristics of the top 100 Chinese software and IT service enterprises, followed by policy guidance from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology outlining four strategic priorities for the sector's future development.
This article presents a 2020 salary ranking of Chinese internet companies for junior, mid‑level, senior, and veteran engineers, explains the compensation components, notes data limitations, and calls for greater transparency and more submissions in future years.
The article analyzes ten emerging technology opportunities identified by Chinese lawmakers in 2022—including carbon neutrality, new‑energy vehicles, autonomous driving, core automotive chips, digitalization for SMEs, new‑infrastructure, data sharing, rural revitalization, aging‑society tech, and talent cultivation—detailing policy recommendations and key industry players behind each trend.
Amid escalating China‑India border tensions, coordinated Chinese hacking groups launched cyber attacks on Indian critical infrastructure, compromising power generation and transmission systems, while retaliatory Indian state‑sponsored actors also deployed spear‑phishing campaigns against Chinese military and government entities.
The 2020 Xinchuang Development Report maps China’s information‑technology ecosystem—covering infrastructure, basic software, applications, and security—while analyzing its historical evolution, macro drivers, new‑infrastructure opportunities, key players, industry chain, and future trends, offering a comprehensive industry‑wide insight.
This roundup covers Huawei’s new "Hongmeng" trademark filing, Ma Huateng’s advice on focusing on services over features, a death‑threat email sent to curl’s creator, Richard Brodie’s nostalgia for classic Word, state‑owned enterprise reforms in China, a survey on tech workers’ actual hours, and a Chinese AI team’s breakthrough in monkey‑face recognition.
This article chronicles Kuaishou’s ten‑year journey from a humble GIF‑making app created by Cheng Yixiao, through its partnership with Su Hua, strategic pivots, IPO success and subsequent controversies, illustrating how focused product design and relentless R&D management built China’s premier short‑video platform.
The 2021 report analyzes the scope of AI chips, examines global and Chinese market dynamics, profiles typical AI chip manufacturers, and provides concise overviews of cloud and edge AI chip segments while highlighting current challenges and future trends shaping the industry.
The report outlines China's new infrastructure development, focusing on 5G network construction, the evolving concept of data centers integrating cloud computing, blockchain and AI, and the shift toward modular data center designs to improve scalability, efficiency, and global competitiveness.
The article explains how China’s homegrown UOS, built on a Linux kernel and evolving from Deepin, aims to reduce reliance on Windows, outlines its versions and user feedback, and discusses the challenges and future prospects of expanding its ecosystem.
The article explores China’s domestically developed UOS operating system—its Linux‑based origins, evolution from Deepin, multiple consumer editions, current compatibility with Windows applications, and the challenges and prospects for broader adoption in a Windows‑dominated market.
The 2020 China Open‑Source Annual Report highlights Taro’s rapid rise to the fourth‑ranked open‑source project, showcasing its cross‑platform capabilities, active community, industry collaborations, and extensive real‑world deployments that illustrate why it stands out among China’s top five projects.
The article details China’s 2020 breakthrough with the 76‑photon quantum computer “Jiuzhang,” which solved Gaussian boson sampling in 200 seconds, surpassing classical supercomputers, discusses the significance of quantum supremacy, ongoing national quantum communication projects, and future challenges toward practical quantum computing.
Recently, Tsinghua University launched the Qiu Cheng‑Tong Mathematics Science Leadership Talent Program, recruiting up to a hundred top global middle‑school students annually without the gaokao, featuring a rigorous seven‑stage selection, a new academy, mentorship by leading scholars, and an eight‑year curriculum designed to produce world‑class mathematicians.
The 2020 review highlights major DevOps standard advancements in China, a comprehensive national DevOps survey with over 1,800 responses, detailed maturity assessments across numerous enterprises, and the progress of the enterprise‑level DevOps empowerment program, illustrating the rapid evolution of DevOps practices and security integration.
China’s electronic information federation released a detailed competitiveness index for software and IT service firms, highlighting five performance tiers, rapid revenue growth, strong R&D investment, expanding global exports, and the sector’s pivotal role in digital transformation and national strategic goals.
The article exposes how the promise of big‑data convenience masks rampant privacy violations—from celebrity photo leaks and app data sales to weak legal penalties—illustrating that ordinary users’ personal information has become a cheap commodity with little protection.
This article examines the rise of ARM and other CPU architectures in China, outlines three paths to domestic CPU development, profiles key players such as Huawei, FeiTeng, and Amazon, and evaluates the emerging ARM server ecosystem and its competitive stance against x86.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of operating systems, analyzes the rise of Chinese domestic OS such as Kylin, Deepin and HarmonyOS, examines market share trends across desktop, server and mobile platforms, and forecasts the economic potential of government, enterprise and consumer adoption over the next five years.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the development, major manufacturers, architectures, performance specifications, ecosystem building, and security features of China's domestic CPUs, tracing their historical evolution from the 1950s to the present and assessing their role in national technology independence.
The report released by the China Electronic Information Industry Federation presents the 2019 Software and Information Technology Services Enterprise Competitiveness Index, analyzes the performance of the top‑100 firms across scale, innovation, openness and support, and outlines the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s four strategic priorities for the sector’s future development.
The article reports that China’s AI core industry reached 770 billion yuan in the first half of the year, while also covering BOSS recruitment abuse actions, a Tesla sunroof incident, Huawei’s investment in Quanzhi Microelectronics, Alibaba Cloud’s optimistic view on autonomous driving, and links to deeper technical pieces on Linux, command‑line tools, and database caching.
This article provides a curated list of widely used domestic and official open‑source software mirror sites for 2020, explaining why mirrors are needed, offering categorized URLs, and giving brief guidance on choosing and using them for faster, more reliable downloads.
Atlassian announced it will stop selling new self‑managed licenses and raise prices for premium plans, forcing Chinese companies to migrate to the cloud, confront soaring costs, data‑security worries, and lost plugins, while weighing alternative management tools.
This article investigates the true number of programmers in China, debunks inflated estimates, examines data from major platforms and top internet companies, and discusses whether the programming profession is saturated or still a thriving sunrise industry.
The October 2020 national survey of 362,409 Chinese programmers reveals an average salary of ¥14,459, a median of ¥12,500, notable regional variations, a surge in hiring demand, and highlights data cleaning steps taken to ensure accuracy.
In October 2020 China hired over 360,000 programmers, with average monthly pay of ¥14,459, a median of ¥12,500, and 95% earning between ¥5,250 and ¥35,000, while city‑by‑city data shows Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen leading in compensation and hiring volume.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of September 2020 Chinese programmer salaries by city, detailed statistics for Java developers, and the latest TIOBE programming language rankings, including historical trends, market share, and notable changes across major languages.
The article analyzes China's GPGPU market, explaining the technology, current applications, rapid growth forecasts, supply‑side concentration, policy support, and the urgent need for domestic alternatives to meet soaring AI and high‑performance computing demand.
This article examines the rapid rise of smart cities in China and globally, detailing market size forecasts, the evolution of urban challenges, policy drivers, industry chain structures, major players, and the technological and talent hurdles that shape the future of this $25 trillion opportunity.
58’s new O2O dining product, “同城生活圈,” leverages a WeChat‑based ecosystem and a redesigned, card‑centric UI with influencer distribution, flash‑sale features, and premium brand showcases to connect consumers with offline restaurants, driving traffic, conversions, and competitive positioning against market giants.
The article analyzes the rapid growth of China's IDC market—highlighting its 29.8% year‑over‑year increase in 2018, the drivers behind this surge, regional distribution patterns, emerging trends such as large‑scale and edge data centers, and how these compare with global data‑center dynamics.
China’s latest revision of its technology export control catalogue adds data‑driven personalized push technology, potentially barring TikTok’s core algorithm from export, and experts advise firms like ByteDance to pause negotiations and complete licensing procedures amid heightened regulatory scrutiny.
After the US announced its “Clean Network” initiative, concerns arose about whether America could block national top‑level domains by controlling the 13 DNS root servers; this article explains DNS fundamentals, the role of root mirrors, historical shutdowns, and how China mitigates such risks.
The discussion analyzes why creating a domestic MATLAB‑like scientific computing platform in China faces steep technical, talent, market, and funding obstacles, and proposes ecosystem and policy measures to foster homegrown alternatives.
Loongson, a leading Chinese chip maker, has announced it will drop all US‑origin technology and create a fully domestic instruction set called LoongArch—compatible with MIPS yet independent—while the article also details the complex history of MIPS licensing, US export restrictions, and the geopolitical pressures shaping China’s push for self‑reliant processor architectures.
The article summarizes the GSMA and ECC report on edge computing in the 5G era, detailing its technical drivers, global trends, definitions, challenges, China's rapid ecosystem development, deployment phases, market forecasts, and strategic measures for widespread adoption.
The article explains how recent US export‑control rules have added Chinese technology firms to the Entity List, leading Docker to block access for those companies and highlighting the broader impact on Chinese developers and cloud‑native tooling.
The 2019 Chinese programmer salary survey reveals that about 80% of developers earn low to medium incomes, with only 20% achieving high salaries, and shows how work experience, region, and other factors influence earnings, illustrating the Pareto principle in the tech industry.
