Category: Industries
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Hugging Face’s $399 Robot Duck Is a Hit—and a Chinese Chip Powers It
Read more: Hugging Face’s $399 Robot Duck Is a Hit—and a Chinese Chip Powers ItSeptember 4, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – A duck-shaped robot that costs $399 and can teach itself new tricks has sold more than 10,000 units in less than a week, generating over $5 million in sales and exposing just how deeply the next wave of consumer artificial intelligence hardware depends on Chinese silicon and Chinese factories. The…
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China Convenes National Conference to Deploy Next-Generation Power Grid Buildout
Read more: China Convenes National Conference to Deploy Next-Generation Power Grid BuildoutSeptember 2, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) — China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) on Monday convened a high-level work deployment conference in Beijing to lay out sweeping tasks for building a “new-type power grid,” signaling that the country’s grid modernization has shifted from blueprint to full-scale execution. NEA Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Administrator Wang Hongzhi…
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China Ends 11-Year Tax Holiday for Lithium Batteries, Hikes Rate to 4% by 2027 While Exempting Solid-State and Sodium-Ion
Read more: China Ends 11-Year Tax Holiday for Lithium Batteries, Hikes Rate to 4% by 2027 While Exempting Solid-State and Sodium-IonSeptember 1, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) — China has begun implementing a phased adjustment to its battery consumption tax policy, ending an 11-year tax holiday for mature lithium-ion and other conventional battery technologies while extending exemptions to next-generation alternatives — a structural recalibration that industry analysts say accelerates the transition to newer chemistries. The Announcement on Adjusting the…
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China Issues Guidelines for Automakers’ Overseas Competition and Compliance, Targeting Pricing, Data Security and Antitrust Risks
Read more: China Issues Guidelines for Automakers’ Overseas Competition and Compliance, Targeting Pricing, Data Security and Antitrust RisksSeptember 1, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – China has unveiled its first dedicated guidelines governing the overseas competitive conduct and compliance practices of its automotive companies, in a move designed to rein in disorderly price competition and provide a systematic risk-management framework for an industry rapidly scaling up its global footprint. The Guidelines for Overseas Competition Conduct and…
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China’s Solar PV Capacity Surpasses Coal Power for the First Time, Reshaping Power Supply
Read more: China’s Solar PV Capacity Surpasses Coal Power for the First Time, Reshaping Power SupplySeptember 1, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) — China’s installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity has surpassed coal-fired power for the first time, making solar photovoltaics the country’s largest power source by installed capacity, the National Energy Administration (NEA) announced on Tuesday. As of the end of July, China’s cumulative PV capacity reached 1.286 billion kilowatts (1,286 GW), narrowly exceeding coal-fired…
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From Price Wars to Inspection Raids: China’s Strategic Pivot to Quality-First Automotive Manufacturing
Read more: From Price Wars to Inspection Raids: China’s Strategic Pivot to Quality-First Automotive ManufacturingChina’s top economic and law-enforcement regulators have initiated a sweeping one-year national campaign to audit the quality, reliability, and technical validation standards of all road vehicles, throwing a massive regulatory hurdle in the path of the industry’s notoriously rapid product launch cycles and “non-rational” price wars. The joint initiative, published on August 27 by the…
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China’s First Private Reusable Rocket Lands on Its Legs, Paving the Way for Low-Cost Satellite Mega-Constellations
Read more: China’s First Private Reusable Rocket Lands on Its Legs, Paving the Way for Low-Cost Satellite Mega-ConstellationsLandSpace’s reusable methane rocket becomes the country’s first privately built orbital-class vehicle to nail a first-stage landing, paving the way for cheaper, more frequent commercial missions. August 19, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – China’s private space industry reached a watershed moment today when the Zhuque-3 rocket lifted off from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Pilot Zone and its…
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China Redraws Its Computing-Power Map: Training Goes West, Inference Sinks East
Read more: China Redraws Its Computing-Power Map: Training Goes West, Inference Sinks EastAugust 14, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) — Computing power has become the scarcest strategic resource of the artificial-intelligence era. From the grasslands of Inner Mongolia to the highlands of Qinghai, from the old industrial base of Heilongjiang to the green-power frontier of the west, a nationwide race to build AI computing infrastructure is underway. After visiting computing…
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China Proposes Quadruped Robot Dogs for 2035 Lunar Base; Machines to Mine, Build Habitats and Support Astronauts
Read more: China Proposes Quadruped Robot Dogs for 2035 Lunar Base; Machines to Mine, Build Habitats and Support AstronautsAugust 13, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – Researchers from the China Academy of Space Technology have published a new concept for deploying quadruped robot dogs on the Moon, proposing that the machines replace astronauts in the heavy and hazardous work of mining resources and assembling habitats at the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) targeted for completion by…
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China’s Auto Exports Top 1 Million Units for Second Straight Month; NEV Sales Share Crosses 60% for First Time
Read more: China’s Auto Exports Top 1 Million Units for Second Straight Month; NEV Sales Share Crosses 60% for First TimeAugust 13, 2026 (InvestinChina.asia) – China’s automobile exports exceeded 1 million units for the second consecutive month in July, while new-energy vehicles (NEVs) accounted for more than 60% of total new-car sales for the first time — a dual milestone that underscores how external demand and electrification are offsetting soft domestic consumption. The China Association…