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.
This guide explains how Chinese developers can overcome slow GitHub clone speeds by mirroring repositories to Gitee, achieving download rates of 1–2 MB/s and also provides a method to accelerate submodule fetching.
The 2020 Cloud‑Native Development Whitepaper, compiled by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, offers a data‑driven overview of China’s cloud‑native market size, ecosystem, hot technologies, security frameworks, and emerging industry applications, highlighting four key future trends shaping the sector.
The 2020 China University Graduate Employment Report reveals that 2019 graduates earned an average monthly salary of 5,440 yuan, with computer science leading among undergraduates, while inflation‑adjusted starting salaries rose 23.6% for bachelor's and 15.7% for vocational graduates, and highlights green (high‑demand) and red (low‑demand) majors.
The 2020 Q2 China Major Cities Traffic Analysis Report, produced by Gaode Maps together with the National Information Center’s Big Data Development Department, Tsinghua University’s Daimler Sustainable Transportation Joint Research Center and other authorities, presents image‑based traffic patterns, mobility trends and data‑driven insights for major Chinese cities in the second quarter of 2020, accessible via the “Read Original” link.
The COVID‑19 pandemic triggered a dual impact on China's SaaS market, boosting remote‑work and digital‑service solutions while crippling SaaS for physical‑industry sectors, and the article analyzes the resulting market data, financing trends, long‑term digital transformation, and strategic recommendations for SaaS providers.
The article analyzes the rapid rise of edge computing in China, detailing its technical drivers, definitions, global trends, challenges, and the strategic role of operators, cloud providers, and equipment vendors, while outlining three deployment phases and seven key measures to accelerate its growth in the 5G era.
This article examines the evolution of operating systems from early mainframes to modern desktop, mobile, and cloud platforms, analyzes global and Chinese market shares of Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, highlights the rapid growth of domestic Chinese OS projects, and forecasts future opportunities in government, enterprise, and consumer sectors.
This article traces the evolution of Chinese domestic CPUs, examines the major manufacturers such as Feiteng, Kunpeng, Haiguang, Loongson, Zhaoxin, and Shenwei, and analyzes their architectures, performance, ecosystem, and market impact within the broader semiconductor industry.
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the historical development, current market dominance of foreign operating systems, the rapid rise of Chinese domestic OS, policy-driven security concerns, and projected multi‑billion‑yuan market opportunities for OS across government, enterprise, and consumer sectors in the next five years.
The article examines the historical development of PC and mobile operating systems, explains why China has not produced a mainstream OS or programming language, and argues that future opportunities will depend on aligning technological timing, geographic advantages, and human resources within China's growing IT ecosystem.
HashiCorp announced that its enterprise‑edition software cannot be used, deployed, or installed in mainland China, affecting products like Terraform, Consul, and Vagrant, while open‑source versions remain unrestricted, prompting Chinese developers to consider alternatives such as Nacos.
This article compiles 2020 graduate salary data from twelve leading Chinese internet companies, detailing offer ranges for algorithm, development, product, design, and market positions, based on autumn and spring recruitment information sourced from Zhihu, Maimai, and OfferShow.
The article analyses the historical development of PC, server, and mobile operating systems, explains why China has not produced a mainstream OS or language, highlights the importance of timing, market ecosystem, and talent, and explores future opportunities for Chinese platforms.
The article explains that using VPNs to access foreign networks in China is illegal under current regulations, recounts recent enforcement actions—including fines and administrative warnings against individuals and vendors—and warns developers and overseas students of the severe penalties that can follow illegal VPN usage.
Amid the rapid rise of the digital economy, China now treats data as a new production factor, driving innovations such as 5G, AI, and big-data-enabled retail, where companies like Suning integrate online and offline channels, leverage C2M models, and boost efficiency through data-driven operations.
In late March, users in China reported errors accessing GitHub Pages and the main site, prompting investigations that suggest a possible man‑in‑the‑middle attack affecting GitHub’s services, with evidence such as a suspicious certificate issued to a QQ email, network hijacking on port 443, and similar disruptions across major Chinese ISPs, while the issue resolved by mid‑afternoon.
A Chinese court case reveals how a reverse‑engineered, unauthorized WeChat client for feature phones spread illegal ads, compromised encrypted communications, and led to criminal charges for providing tools to infiltrate computer systems, highlighting serious information‑security risks and the legal consequences of software piracy.
Learn how to bypass slow or timed‑out Python package installations by using popular domestic mirror sites, and configure pip for temporary or permanent use on both Windows and Linux environments.
The People's Bank of China has published the JR/T 0184‑2020 Financial Distributed Ledger Technology Security Specification, the country's first blockchain‑related standard for the financial sector, with JD Digital Technology playing a key drafting role and industry experts predicting it will steer the sector away from chaotic growth.
The article examines China’s Unified Operating System (UOS), its relationship to Deepin, ecosystem partnerships, market criticisms, competitive landscape against other domestic Linux distributions, and the realistic prospects of replacing Windows in government and enterprise environments.
The February 12, 2020 COVID‑19 daily report details a sharp rise in national confirmed cases to 59,804, explains the inclusion of clinically diagnosed cases in Hubei, presents provincial death and cure rates, and offers extensive data‑driven analyses of trends, infection coefficients, and regional transmission dynamics.
An extensive survey of the global AI chip market lists over 90 companies—including major manufacturers, Chinese startups, and traditional IP vendors—detailing each firm's representative AI processors, development history, and key technological features to illustrate current industry trends and competitive landscape.
This article surveys the ten most promising Chinese front‑end frameworks of 2019‑2020, such as Ramda, WeUI, ColorUI, Omi, Taro, Flutter, SpriteJS, NestJS, DoKit and imgcook, highlighting their origins, key features, ecosystem support and GitHub popularity to illustrate the rapid evolution of front‑end technology.
Starting January 6, the U.S. government will enforce new export restrictions on AI software, especially geospatial image analysis tools, requiring licenses for shipments to China, a move that could impact drone, autonomous vehicle, and mapping companies worldwide while sparking debate among policymakers.
By scraping ITjuzi’s death‑company database with Python, the author collected data on 6,271 closed startups, analyzed trends from 2010‑2019, and uncovered how boom periods in 2013‑2014 led to massive closures in 2016‑2017, highlighting the volatile nature of China’s tech entrepreneurship.
Amid trade tensions and tech bans, Chinese developers have united to create the open‑source Unity Operating System (UOS), supporting domestic processors, offering a Windows‑like interface, and aiming to build a sustainable software ecosystem despite early ecosystem gaps.
This article explains why Jenkins plugin downloads are slow for Chinese users, introduces the TUNA mirror service, details the signed update‑center.json mechanism, and provides a step‑by‑step solution—including configuration changes and open‑source tools—to achieve fast, reliable plugin installation.
This article explains how Chinese Jenkins users can overcome slow plugin download speeds by configuring the TUNA mirror, understanding the signed update‑center.json mechanism, and following a three‑step solution to quickly install plugins without relying on overseas servers.
The article examines the NBA's China controversy, the massive Chinese backlash, the subsequent suspension of partnerships, and explores how artificial intelligence tools like Facebook's Rosetta are being used—and limited—in moderating online speech, highlighting the balance between automated detection and human review.
From a 1995 book that first hinted at a connected world to the rise of Tencent, Huawei, Xiaomi and AI‑driven startups, this article chronicles two decades of China’s IoT evolution, government support, and the fierce competition that continues to drive innovation across the industry.
The report presents September 2019 salary statistics for programmers across major Chinese cities, compares programming language earnings, highlights algorithm engineer and architect pay, and analyzes the 90‑post‑1990s programmer job market including average monthly salaries near 20 K, gender distribution, city preferences, and top‑desired companies such as ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba.
This article presents a detailed 2019 salary survey of programmers in China's major cities, showing average, median, and 95% salary ranges for each city, and includes specific salary insights for Java, Python, algorithm engineers, and architects.
The Chinese Information and Communication Research Institute, together with leading industry and academic partners, has launched the world’s first DevOps capability maturity model, detailing assessment criteria across agile management, continuous delivery, operations, architecture, security, and tools, and outlining the evaluation process, timeline, and enrollment information for organizations seeking certification.
This article reviews the global and Chinese conversational AI landscape, outlines its three-tier architecture, highlights leading companies, analyzes market growth forecasts, and presents case studies from Amazon Alexa, Nuance, and Google Assistant, offering insights into challenges and design principles.
This article traces the development of China's database sector from the 1950s Soviet‑inspired mainframes through the rise of OLTP, foreign database dominance, government‑backed research projects, and the emergence of modern cloud‑native solutions like PolarDB, OceanBase and TiDB, highlighting technical, economic and policy factors that shaped each decade.
This article traces the development of China's database sector from the early Soviet‑inspired computers of the 1950s through foreign‑technology influx in the 1980s and 1990s, the rise of domestic vendors, and the recent cloud‑native ecosystem, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for replacing legacy Oracle systems.
This guide lists the most reliable domestic Composer mirrors for PHP developers in China, compares their sponsors, update frequencies, and stability, and shows a one‑line command to set a global mirror such as Alibaba Cloud.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approved the establishment of four DNS root server mirrors in China, outlining strict operational, security, and reporting requirements while highlighting the broader context of the nation’s IPv6 "Snowman" initiative and its impact on global internet governance.
The article examines the recent loss of X86 licensing for Chinese chip makers, detailing AMD's withdrawal of support for Tianjin Haiguang, the expiration of VIA's agreements, and the broader challenges facing domestic X86 processors amid shifting market dynamics and emerging alternatives.
This article compiles the latest data on technical job levels, salary ranges, stock grants, promotion difficulty, and career‑preparation advice for China’s top internet firms—Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Huawei and Bytedance—based on interviews with insiders and headhunters.
From June 4‑5, 2019, the China‑hosted Big Data Industry Summit gathered more than 4,000 attendees and 60,000 online viewers to present award winners, release multiple whitepapers and standards, and hold six thematic forums and two roundtables that examined data platforms, asset management, security, law, and emerging technologies, outlining current opportunities and future challenges for big‑data growth.
The article explains China’s Network Security Level Protection 2.0 standard, its differences from 1.0, and provides practical guidance for internet companies on key compliance areas such as identity authentication, access control, security auditing, dynamic monitoring, and cloud security to strengthen overall cyber defenses.
The article showcases the Chengdu‑Ya’an segment of the Sichuan‑Tibet railway, detailing how Chinese engineers applied strict national standards, BIM technology, and meticulous wiring and cabling techniques to achieve a highly refined weak‑current system that rivals the precision often associated with German engineering.
In April 2019, the GOPS Shenzhen conference unveiled China’s first official DevOps maturity model, detailing its eight-part framework and announcing nine leading companies—including Daimler China and Ping An Tech—joining the DevOps/AIOps standards working group, marking a major step for industry-wide adoption.
An in‑depth data analysis of the 996.ICU GitHub repository shows where the protesting programmers work, which cities they live in, their typical GitHub activity, the most discussed issues, and the common keywords in their bios, highlighting the scale of the anti‑996 movement.
This article analyzes China's massive enterprise ecosystem, the composition of its IT market, the human and political factors shaping demand, and how cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence are driving a new wave of digital transformation across state‑owned, internet, and other enterprises.
The article explains the current low average DevOps continuous‑delivery level of Chinese IT firms, describes the newly established DevOps capability maturity model, outlines its assessment criteria and process, and provides details on recent certification results and upcoming evaluation rounds.
This article traces the evolution of Chinese banks' IT architecture—from early mainframe adoption and data consolidation to virtualization, cloud platforms, and containerization—highlighting the distinct tiers of banks, key historical milestones, and the strategic shift toward modern cloud-native infrastructures.
The article analyses how China’s semiconductor sector struggles against entrenched Western dominance, chronic equipment and talent shortages, limited funding, and restrictive export controls, while highlighting recent government investments and the strategic importance of closing these gaps for national security and technological independence.
The draft "Internet Personal Information Security Protection Guideline" issued by China's Ministry of Public Security outlines comprehensive management mechanisms, technical safeguards, and business processes to help internet enterprises protect personal data throughout its lifecycle, and invites public feedback via the national security platform.
From the first tentative steps of Alibaba Cloud in 2006 to the fierce CDN price wars and the rise of new players like UCloud and QingCloud, this article chronicles a ten‑year saga of how cloud computing emerged, matured, and reshaped China’s internet ecosystem, highlighting key investments, strategic battles, and the shifting attitudes of industry giants.
iQIYI CEO Gong Yu explains how AI is reshaping content creation, distribution, and monetization in China's video market, highlights the shift from generic to highly personalized entertainment, and outlines the company's expanding ecosystem across gaming, sports, comics, literature, e‑commerce, and live streaming.
Analyzing the US National STEM Video Game Challenge, this study reveals its rule design, support structures, and social organization participation, identifies strengths and shortcomings, and proposes five actionable recommendations—social organization involvement, collaborative teams, educationally guided judging, tool selection, and sustainability—to inform China’s STEM education initiatives.
The author examines whether China can create an operating system that rivals Windows, macOS, Linux, or Android, recounts personal attempts at building a tiny OS kernel, analyzes systemic obstacles in academia and industry, and proposes early programming education as a long‑term solution.
In a 2018 Beijing police operation, a former operations supervisor illegally raised his system permissions, downloaded three proprietary project source codes from a tech company, and sold them for nearly eight million yuan, leading to the arrest of two suspects after extensive digital forensic investigation.
The 2018 China Open‑Source Annual Report analyzes GitHub data, introduces the Grank health index, highlights dominant companies and trending technologies such as AI, cloud, and blockchain, and reveals how activity and community decentralisation shape the vitality of Chinese open‑source projects.
This report compiles publicly released Chinese government data on second‑class vaccine procurement across 28 provinces, cleans it into a unified CSV format, and uses pandas and echart to reveal a highly skewed distribution dominated by a few large manufacturers while noting data gaps and collection challenges.
This article documents the collection, cleaning, and statistical analysis of publicly released second‑category vaccine procurement data from 28 Chinese provinces, highlighting data sources, processing steps with pandas, top manufacturers, regional market shares, and the challenges encountered during the effort.
This article documents the collection of public second‑class vaccine procurement data from 28 Chinese provinces, describes the CSV schema, outlines the challenges faced during web scraping, and presents a pandas‑driven statistical analysis that highlights top manufacturers and their provincial market shares.
