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China celebrates 30th anniversary of country’s first internet connection in sign of support for the sector

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China celebrates 30th anniversary of country’s first internet connection in sign of support for the sector A government-backed forum commemorating the 30-year anniversary of China’s access to the global internet brought together the country’s regulators and Big Tech executives, including Tencent Holdings founder Pony Ma Huateng, on Saturday as Beijing moves to boost the private … Read more

China convenes Huawei, Tencent, Baidu to draft metaverse standards in bid to become global technology leader

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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has assembled 60 experts, including some from the country’s largest technology firms, to form a new working group to establish standards for the metaverse sector. Representatives from telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies, video gaming titans Tencent Holdings and NetEase, web search and artificial intelligence champion Baidu, financial … Read more

China aims to bring mega computing network online by next year in data power push

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“The computing power gap between the east and west has narrowed in recent years, but there are still problems to be addressed,” state news agency Xinhua on Wednesday quoted an unnamed NDA official as saying. The problems centre on imbalances in the distribution of general computing, intelligent computing and supercomputing power across national computing hubs. … Read more