Progress and bottlenecks across manufacturing, energy and frontier technology supply chains.
President Xi Jinping toured Ulaanqab in Inner Mongolia on October 16, reviewing wetland conservation and the East Data, West Computing megaproject while calling for balancing high quality development with high level environmental protection and raising farmer and herder incomes.
China's CXMT says it has achieved a breakthrough in next generation LPDDR5X memory chip design and is nearing the leading edge of global production, a claim that has pressured Asian tech shares and put established players Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron on notice.
Seven Chinese government bodies, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, have unveiled a plan targeting 2030 for the large-scale deployment of all-solid-state batteries, with applications expanding from cars to robots, aviation and data centers. Major makers including CATL and BYD are converging on similar commercialization timetables.
A nuclear clock built by a Tsinghua University team has proven about six times more stable than a counterpart from the Vienna University of Technology, in the first results from the world's first two working nuclear clocks. Both use thorium-229 crystals, a technology seen as a new frontier for ultra-precise timekeeping.
China reinstated the consumption tax on lithium-ion EV batteries starting Sept. 1, ending a tax break that dated back to 2015, and plans to end purchase tax exemptions in 2028. Analysts say the shift could speed up a shakeout among the country's crowded field of EV makers.
At the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8, a BTR New Material Group executive said China's renewable energy installations have clearly outpaced what the grid can absorb. Industry figures say both AI driven data center demand and smarter grid dispatch could help ease the overcapacity.
