This article systematically examines ten fundamental questions on digital twins—defining the concept, identifying stakeholders, comparing global research intensity, linking to smart manufacturing, exploring integration with New IT, outlining scientific challenges, standards, and commercial tool requirements—to guide researchers, decision‑makers, and practitioners.
The article examines the popular “0:5” claim that Chinese programmers lag behind the US in AI buzzwords, shows that Chinese models dominate Hugging Face, analyzes why narrative and standards lag, and proposes short‑term, mid‑term, and long‑term steps to improve global tech storytelling.
A casual chat with an overseas AI student reveals that while China excels in large‑scale models and engineering speed, it still trails the West in AI‑focused terminology, standards, and protocol innovation, prompting a reflection on cultural habits, competitive pressure, and the need for original contributions.
A candid conversation with an overseas AI student reveals that while China excels in model development and engineering speed, it still lags in creating distinctive AI terminology and standards, prompting a call for Chinese engineers to shift from followers to innovators.
The report analyzes the rapid emergence of Claude Skills and OpenAI's Agentic Commerce Protocol, detailing their technical architectures, benchmark performance, cross‑platform compatibility, enterprise adoption metrics, security challenges, and strategic implications for businesses entering the agentic AI era.
The article identifies six frequent problems in data governance—unclear goals, dispersed responsibility, poor data quality, inconsistent standards, lack of continuity, and neglect of practical application—and provides concrete examples, step‑by‑step remedies, and organizational best practices to help enterprises avoid costly missteps.
The 2025 OSCAR Open‑Source Industry Conference in Beijing gathered leaders from China’s communications standards association, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and major enterprises to unveil new trusted open‑source assessment results, launch AI open‑source initiatives, discuss regional standards, and outline a three‑year roadmap for secure, collaborative open‑source development across cloud, AI, and big‑data sectors.
This article outlines the evolution of DevOps standards, organization‑level capability building, AI‑enabled R&D and operations, and the foundational AI‑driven assurance framework, highlighting recent assessments, standards, and industry adoption across finance, telecom, manufacturing, and other sectors.
This article traces C++ from its 1979 origins as “C with Classes” through successive standards—C++98, C++11, C++14, C++17, C++20, and C++23—highlighting key features, the language’s modern capabilities, current applications, and future directions up to the planned C++26.
This article traces the history of graphics GPUs from their 1980s origins to modern AI and high‑performance computing roles, examines China's emerging GPU market and its challenges, and reviews the key graphics and compute standards shaping the industry today.
The article examines the critical importance of software supply chain security, outlines frequent attacks and real‑world cases, discusses national standards and compliance measures, and highlights emerging AI‑driven and blockchain‑based innovations that aim to protect the entire software lifecycle.
The article details how the Shenzhen Stock Exchange successfully passed both international ITU DevOps and domestic DevOps standards assessments, highlighting the role of China’s Information Communication Research Institute, the six key capability areas evaluated, and the broader push for standardization in China’s digital finance sector.
At the 25th GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shenzhen, China Galaxy Securities showcased its successful dual certification under ITU DevOps standards, detailing the Bond Investment Business Support System's continuous testing achievements, pipeline integration, and the broader impact on financial DevOps practices.
The article outlines China’s recent push to internationalize IT standards through the 2024‑2027 Action Plan, details the development and adoption of ITU DevOps and AI‑enhanced DevOps standards, and explains the emerging BizDevOps framework that integrates business and technology for agile digital transformation.
This article summarizes a recent sharing session led by Wang Chaolun of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, covering the department overview, enterprise knowledge management challenges, knowledge platform trends, standardization efforts, and the impact of large AI models on knowledge services.
The article examines the intense debate over C++'s future, highlighting government warnings, industry shifts toward Rust, the C++ standards committee’s focus on ABI stability, and the clash between modern‑tool‑driven teams and legacy‑code enterprises, questioning whether the language can stay relevant.
FAW‑Volkswagen’s R&D Efficiency Platform and Integrated Operations Platform both achieved the top‑grade ITU DevOps international standard and the domestic DevOps standard, showcasing the company’s advanced digital‑transformation capabilities, the rigorous assessment process, and the broader push for standard internationalization in China’s IT industry.
Ningbo Bank’s "Fengjinhao" platform passed both the international IG1374 BizDevOps standard and China’s domestic BizDevOps benchmark, showcasing how integrated business‑development‑operations practices accelerate digital transformation, improve performance metrics, and set a leading example for the banking sector.
This article reviews the latest progress of DevOps standards in China, introduces the newly released BizDevOps framework, details the content of the standard system, highlights emerging XOps hotspots, and explains how these initiatives support enterprise digital transformation and operational efficiency.
In the first half of 2024, Chinese enterprises boosted their international influence through significant progress in informationization standards, with the CAICT DevOps assessment seeing 13 firms pass 26 evaluations and unveiling five key highlights that signal a shift toward organization‑wide DevOps adoption.
The article explains the newly launched DevOps international standard evaluation, its relationship with domestic standards, the 2024‑2027 information standard action plan, the three major upgrades to the assessment process, and how Chinese companies can participate to gain internationally recognized certification.
The 2024 National Standards Committee AI Sub‑Committee Conference Week in Hangzhou gathered over 400 experts to discuss AI standardization and showcased Ant Group’s large‑model applications in finance and healthcare, while announcing new work‑group leadership and numerous national and industry AI standards the company has helped develop.
The article outlines China's 2023 DevOps landscape, highlighting the CAICT‑led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, extensive assessment data across more than 100 enterprises—including 25 banks—and the measurable performance gains achieved through standardized DevOps adoption.
The article reviews the progress of OSS‑related network‑management standards across 3GPP, ITU, TMF, ETSI and O‑RAN, outlines the upcoming 6G OSS overall vision, and highlights five key directions for integrated, automated, ESG‑aware, secure and trustworthy network management in the 6G era.
This article examines the evolution of information security risk management—from classic standards like GB/T20984 and ISO27001 to modern AI‑driven, big‑data approaches—detailing risk definitions, quantitative models, international guidelines, and future research directions.
The article outlines common logging problems and presents a comprehensive six‑step strategy—including clear logging standards, systematic standard management, a unified SDK, centralized log management systems, regular standard reviews, and lifecycle deprecation—to transform chaotic logs into a reliable tool that boosts development efficiency.
This article explains the evolution, legal basis, supervising agencies, definitions, core standards, and implementation process of China’s cybersecurity grade protection system, including the transition to the 2.0 framework and the required filing, construction, assessment, and supervision steps.
The article explains Huawei's NearLink (StarFlash) technology—a short‑range wireless communication solution that combines enhanced Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth features, detailing its origins, technical architecture, performance advantages, standards development, and potential applications across consumer electronics, smart homes, industrial manufacturing, and automotive scenarios.
On September 22, the self‑designed "Qi Ji" A2 autonomous vehicle for smart‑city data production was inspected by China Merchants Group Vehicle Technology Research Institute, passed all 11 major test items of the T/CSAE 285‑2022 functional‑type unmanned vehicle field test standard, and the detailed results are presented in this report.
This article explains why data‑warehouse standards are essential for improving team efficiency, product quality, and maintenance costs, and provides a step‑by‑step guide covering standard creation, discussion, rollout, supervision, continuous improvement, as well as detailed design, process, quality, and security specifications.
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.
The article explains that while big data aims to boost organizational insight and innovation, its true value depends on high data quality, outlines industry standards, identifies technical, business, and management causes of poor quality, and proposes a three‑phase strategy of prevention, monitoring, and post‑improvement to ensure reliable data for decision‑making.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of IoT protocols and standards, organized by functional layers such as infrastructure, identification, communication, discovery, data exchange, device management, semantics, multi‑layer frameworks, security, and industry verticals, and lists relevant alliances and organizations shaping the IoT ecosystem.
The article reviews the development background of the digital economy‑driven content risk control industry, examines current content moderation technologies and challenges, describes the establishment of a content technology promotion alliance, outlines its research directions and evaluation standards, and includes a Q&A on regulatory collaboration.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the PCIe interface evolution, detailing the specifications, version milestones, bandwidth improvements, encoding and signaling changes from PCIe 3.0 through PCIe 7.0, and their impact on data‑center, AI/ML, and consumer hardware.
The 2022 XOps Industry Summit highlighted how major Chinese enterprises, especially Bank of Communications, use standardized DevOps practices and maturity models to dramatically improve delivery quality, safety, and agility, thereby strengthening their market competitiveness and supporting digital transformation.
This article explains the concept of Power over Ethernet (PoE), why it is needed, its advantages, the roles of power‑sourcing and powered devices, power delivery modes, negotiation processes, IEEE standards (802.3af/at/bt), and the types of equipment that can support PoE.
AIOps, the application of AI to IT operations, is defined, its role in cloud service management outlined, and the recent ITU‑T SG13 plenary that adopted an international standard on AI‑based operation management is summarized, along with domestic industry contributions, maturity assessments, and the upcoming 2021 GOLF+ IT governance forum.
The article reports on the 2021 RPA Innovation Industry Summit where China’s ICBC achieved the nation’s first 3+ maturity rating for its RPA system, includes an in‑depth interview on the bank’s RPA deployment, performance metrics, future AI integration plans, and the new national RPA standards.
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.
The article explains the approval of ITU‑T Y.3525, the first international DevOps standard led by China, outlines its framework and use cases, and describes the accompanying DevOps Capability Maturity Model, assessment process, benefits, and participating organizations.
The article outlines Alibaba‑inspired design principles and concrete specifications for service error codes—defining a 13‑character, domain‑structured format for log‑oriented codes and a concise 5‑character scheme for external APIs—emphasizing quick source tracing, memorability, standard communication, and practical guidelines such as avoiding enums.
The article outlines the AIIA‑hosted RPA technology salon, details the newly built RPA evaluation framework, explains RPA fundamentals and AI‑driven RPA 4.0 trends, and presents the alliance’s roadmap for standards and testing to boost successful automation deployments.
This article introduces the W3C Web of Things (WoT) standards, focusing on the Thing Description (TD) specification, its current CR and WD statuses, the JSON‑LD structure, security mechanisms, namespace extensions, and provides concrete TD examples to help developers understand and implement IoT devices.
This article traces the historical development of Ethernet—from its 1973 inception and early coaxial media through successive IEEE standards such as 10BASE‑T, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 GbE—detailing cable types, wiring schemes, fiber optics, transceiver modules, and auto‑negotiation mechanisms that underpin modern networking.
The fourth DevOps System and Tools Standards workshop held on March 8‑9, 2019 in Hangzhou gathered over 60 experts from leading Chinese tech and finance companies to collaboratively refine the DevOps standards framework across project management, continuous delivery, and testing domains, resulting in extensive revisions and consensus on the standards.
This article traces the historical development of Ethernet—from its 1973 inception and early 2.94 Mbps implementations through successive IEEE standards such as 10 Mbps DIX, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 10 GbE, and 100 GbE—detailing the physical media, cabling types, connector standards, and auto‑negotiation mechanisms that have shaped modern networking.
At the 2018 DevOps International Summit in Shenzhen, Deputy Director Zhang Xueli of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology highlighted the rapid adoption of DevOps, its impact on software delivery speed and quality, and the launch of the nation’s first DevOps maturity model standards.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of data‑center rack cabinets, covering size specifications, power and cooling requirements, key industry standards such as IEC 60297‑1 and EIA‑310‑D, structural components, environmental considerations, load capacity, and practical design guidelines for safe and efficient deployment.
This article traces the evolution of Ethernet from its 1973 inception through successive IEEE standards, explains the various copper and fiber media types, describes cabling categories and wiring schemes, and outlines auto‑negotiation and optical module technologies used in modern networking.
The article likens the blockchain boom to the 19th‑century American gold rush, highlighting speculative hype, the need for universal standards, and the challenges of making crypto wallets user‑friendly and mobile‑accessible to achieve mass adoption.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s annual Connected Lighting workshop in Santa Clara emphasized industry collaboration on standards and testbeds, showcasing how LED‑based, data‑driven lighting systems can improve energy efficiency, enable new services, and integrate with IoT platforms for smarter building management.
The article examines the fragmented landscape of Internet of Things (IoT) standards, highlighting the lack of a universal protocol, the proliferation of competing alliances such as Thread, AllJoyn, IoTivity, the Industrial Internet Consortium, ITU‑T SG20, IEEE P2413, and Apple HomeKit, and discusses the security, interoperability, and market adoption challenges that determine which standards may survive.
The article explains why data‑center cabinets, though often overlooked, are critical infrastructure, detailing required dimensions, load and power capacities, cooling and ventilation needs, relevant IEC and EIA standards, material and safety features, and best practices for installation and management.
