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.
The 2018 China User Experience Industry Survey, conducted by IXDC and Tencent CDC, analyzes practitioner demographics, salary growth, job mobility, satisfaction, entrepreneurship, core competitiveness, capability models, learning plans, emerging niche roles, urgent vacancies, and common tools, offering a comprehensive view of UX developments and challenges.
This guide walks you through installing a Kubernetes (K8S) cluster on CentOS 7.3 in China, covering environment preparation, downloading required packages and images via local mirrors, configuring Docker and the network, initializing the master node with kubeadm, joining worker nodes, and optionally deploying the dashboard and flannel network plugin.
The article reviews China’s retail evolution from planned‑economy roots through e‑commerce boom to today’s O2O “new retail” era, highlighting rational online growth, offline revitalization, blurred channel boundaries, precision advertising, and recommends modules such as membership points, LBS store locating, and coupon systems via mini‑programs.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology outlines a comprehensive 21‑measure plan to upgrade LTE, fixed‑network, and application‑layer infrastructure to IPv6 across China, set ambitious user and bandwidth targets, and strengthen security and governance to achieve nationwide IPv6 deployment by 2020.
This article examines the rapid growth of China’s government cloud market, the challenges revealed by low‑price bidding scandals, and the four‑dimensional assessment method introduced in 2017 to evaluate policy compliance, application impact, platform capability, and security safeguards.
A 2017 analysis of China’s high‑end internet talent market reveals that cloud computing, big data and gaming lead salary rankings, while company financing stage, job role demand, city location and candidate age all shape hiring trends and compensation levels.
The McKinsey Global Institute report predicts that by 2030 roughly 100 million Chinese workers will need to change jobs as automation reshapes demand across eleven industry categories, boosting creative, technical and managerial roles while reducing predictable physical jobs and prompting widespread reskilling.
Google announced the official launch of its AI China Center, led by Fei‑Fei Li, outlining its research, education, and talent‑building goals while highlighting China's growing AI market and the strategic shift toward foundational AI development and developer training.
Eric Schmidt warned that China is rapidly closing the AI gap with the United States, citing policy, talent, and investment challenges while highlighting Google's AI applications, recruitment efforts in China, and the need for coordinated national talent strategies.
Based on recruitment data from major Chinese websites up to June 2017, this analysis reveals the ten highest‑paying occupations and industries nationwide, highlights regional salary differences in five key cities, and breaks down experience and education patterns for each top job.
The 2017 China International Information Communication Exhibition highlighted NB‑IoT as a pivotal, low‑power, wide‑coverage technology set to dominate over 60% of IoT demand, while outlining China's policy support, deployment milestones, industry challenges, and recommended actions for secure, scalable growth.
Based on a survey of roughly 2,000 Chinese software testing professionals, this report analyses company characteristics, testing‑development ratios, career advancement, training frequency, testing tools, and process metrics, offering insights into current industry trends and recommendations for QA practitioners.
A comprehensive big‑data analysis reveals that high housing costs, job opportunities, lower congestion and better quality of life are driving residents of China’s first‑tier cities to relocate to second‑tier hubs such as Chongqing, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Xiamen and Suzhou, with most migrants aged 26‑45 and preferring to buy homes.
This article analyzes the strategic differences between China’s incumbent internet giants BAT and the newer TMD players, examining financial performance, business models, and organizational capabilities to assess who can succeed in the post‑traffic‑bonus era of the Chinese internet market.
The 2017 TOP500 list shows China's Sunway TaihuLight leading with 125,435.9 TFlop/s, highlights the role of Linpack‑based rankings, details vendor participation, and contrasts performance‑focused TOP500 with energy‑focused Green500, underscoring China's growing high‑performance computing capabilities and the importance of power efficiency.
JD Data Research Institute’s 2017 Belt and Road cross‑border e‑commerce consumption trend report shows Chinese products sold in 54 Belt‑and‑Road nations, with mobile phones, computers, electronic accessories and home goods leading exports, while smart devices, automotive parts and health‑beauty items experience the fastest sales growth, alongside notable improvements in import volumes and logistics speed.
The article analyzes China’s massive e‑commerce market, its rapid mobile‑first growth, distinctive consumer habits, and how platforms like Alibaba differ from Western rivals such as Amazon, offering insights into future global retail trends.
On May 3, China announced the creation of the world’s first optical quantum computer, a collaborative effort that demonstrates quantum‑computing speeds far beyond traditional supercomputers and signals the nation’s entry into world‑class quantum research.
At the 2017 China (Shenzhen) IT Leaders Summit, top executives from Tencent, Baidu, Microsoft and Digital China debated the four essential elements for AI advancement—scenarios, big data, computing power, and talent—while addressing data security, openness, and the broader impact of artificial intelligence on industry and society.
Using big‑data visualizations, this article examines the 2017 Chinese Spring Festival migration, revealing early peak travel, the top twenty outbound cities accounting for over 40 % of movement, net flow patterns, and demographic profiles such as age, education and industry distribution across major urban centers.
The 2016 China Oracle Database Usage Report, based on health‑check data from 1,841 instances across 18 industries, provides a multi‑dimensional analysis of version distribution, operating system choices, host and storage configurations, data scale, high‑availability setups, and top failure types, offering a comprehensive view of Oracle adoption and challenges in the Chinese market.
The 2016 China Oracle Database Usage Report, based on health checks of 1,841 Oracle instances from 485 users across 18 industries, provides a multi‑dimensional analysis of version distribution, system configurations, data scale, high‑availability adoption, and common fault patterns.
The 2016 Global Innovation 1000 report by PwC’s Strategy& reveals that Chinese companies, led by Alibaba, dramatically increased R&D spending, boosting their share of global innovation and shifting from cost competition to technology‑driven growth.
In 2016, Chinese firms dominated global R&D growth, with 130 companies entering the Global Innovation 1000 list, Alibaba leading domestically, and Huawei projected to rank among the top ten worldwide, reflecting an 18.6% increase in China’s innovation spending.
Based on Alibaba security data from January to August 2016, an analysis of 240 popular Android apps across 16 industry categories found that 83% had counterfeit versions, totaling 8,267 fake apps that infected 67.9 million devices, with social networking apps leading the fraud landscape.
In this extensive interview, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei explains how political reforms, tax incentives, a relentless single‑focus strategy, continuous learning from the West, strong intellectual‑property protection, and a culture that values ideals over profit have driven Huawei’s growth and shaped his views on innovation, management, and China’s future industrial landscape.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of China's cloud computing landscape, detailing the roles of platform and service providers, highlighting major domestic players such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, and discussing the involvement of telecom operators and other emerging vendors.
In his Alibaba Technology Forum speech at Tsinghua, Wang Jian outlines how Alibaba’s cloud, database, and operating‑system initiatives—along with quantum‑computing research—aim to turn computing into a public utility, positioning China to lead global technological infrastructure.
This article breaks down the true cost of developing a native mobile app in China, covering developer salaries, team composition, timeline, low‑budget alternatives, template platforms, and when a company should choose a native app versus a Web‑App solution.
This article chronicles Yang Haoyong’s transformation of a modest $100,000 angel investment into Ganji.com, a leading Chinese classified‑ads platform, detailing his education, early team building, aggressive offline marketing, strategic partnership with Google, multiple funding rounds, fierce competition with 58.com, and eventual merger, offering valuable lessons for entrepreneurs and product managers.
In a 2015 speech at the China Enterprise Leaders Conference, Sequoia Capital partner Shen Nanpeng examined the evolution of Chinese entrepreneurship, the shift from consumer internet to technology‑driven ventures, and the importance of scientific innovation and global expansion for the next wave of startups.
The article examines how emerging technologies like AI, big data, and image recognition are transforming China's O2O sector, boosting efficiency, filling resource gaps, and creating new opportunities for both internet firms and traditional businesses.
This report analyzes the development, trends, and challenges of China's Internet‑plus hotel industry in 2015, providing data‑driven insights into market size, consumer behavior, and competitive landscape, including adoption of online booking platforms, revenue management systems, and the impact of mobile technologies on hospitality services.
The report surveyed 1 million Chinese programmers in Q4 2014, revealing that most are 20‑40, male-dominated, concentrated in tech hubs, primarily use PCs with Windows 7, Chrome, and languages C++/C, while mobile usage favors Android and iOS.
This article presents a detailed overview of front‑end developer salaries in six major Chinese cities, showing average monthly pay, salary ranges, and skill‑level brackets, while noting that the figures are based on recent job postings and are for reference only.
Microsoft executives warn that China’s rapidly growing open‑source community suffers from three key misconceptions—misdefining open source, over‑valuing code over community, and viewing itself as niche—so it must adopt clear governance, align with international standards, and integrate with the global ecosystem to thrive.
The article examines how Baidu’s newly launched AI‑powered “KaoBa” lightweight app is helping Chinese high‑school graduates choose universities, illustrates the broader surge of AI services in China, compares Baidu’s approach with rivals such as Google, IBM, Facebook and Microsoft, and discusses the potential impact on education, healthcare and other industries.
This article reviews a range of free DNS providers—including registrar‑offered options, popular Chinese services, and overseas solutions—highlighting their features, limitations, and suitability for websites operating in China.
