A scramble for artificial intelligence (AI) talent is intensifying in China, as local tech giants dangle eye-watering salaries to hire top-notch professionals to compete in a heated AI race. Beijing-based smartphone giant Xiaomi will be hosting a special hiring session for AI experts in areas spanning AI models, computer vision, deep learning, autonomous driving and … Read more
A safety executive at OpenAI made a rare speech at an event hosted by a major Chinese video streaming platform, calling for the responsible development of artificial intelligence (AI). Lilian Weng Li, a research vice-president on AI safety at the Microsoft-backed start-up, said at an event hosted by Chinese streaming platform Bilibili last week that … Read more
Lu Xinning, deputy director of Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong, has been appointed as a member of the Chinese Communist Party Standing Committee of Guangxi, an autonomous region in southwest mainland China. Mainland media reported on Monday that Beijing had appointed Lu a member of the Communist Party Standing Committee for the Guangxi Zhuang … Read more
Since then, a steady stream of visitors – many of them students – have bypassed the shops to make their way to the patriotic-themed memorial, particularly on public holidays. As part of summer holiday school assignments, students are required to visit patriotic exhibitions, and the one at the memorial is on a list of options … Read more
The guidelines also said interventions were needed for other common conditions such as myopia and scoliosis, to which poor diet and not enough outdoor activity were contributing factors. Experts have raised the alarm about the health issue, most recently in May when Shen Hongbing, director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, told … Read more
China fortified its partnerships from trade to academic collaborations in the Asia-Pacific region during Premier Li Qiang’s recent visits to New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia, with attention centring around exchanges between Beijing and Canberra. Unlike New Zealand and Malaysia that employ a relatively mild approach towards China, Australia – as a more vocal member of … Read more
The lone foreigner stands out. The English writer Stella Benson, acquaintance of Virginia Woolf, sometime resident of Mengzi and South China Morning Post correspondent. Photo: Getty Images But in Benson’s time Mengzi was better known than it is today. Sited in the middle of an agricultural plain rimmed with mountains, 1,400 metres (4,500 feet) above … Read more
“The Chinese market for [finished] products has already been almost totally liberalised,” Lin said. “The [next] reforms will hit many markets of factors of production. And also, new quality productive forces will also be a highlight in this new plenum.” Factors of production are the resources needed to create goods and services, and are usually … Read more
More than 2,000 years of governance in ancient China has given us the impression that the Chinese legal system has a significant “genetic defect”. So I think my life has been fulfilling because I have been able to think about China’s future based on historical comparisons between Chinese and Western legal systems, which is also … Read more
A 17-year-old student majoring in fashion design, who is self-taught in maths, beat all the artificial intelligence (AI) teams to get into the finals of the Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition, according to the final list issued by the organiser, Alibaba’s DAMO Academy. Just over 800 competitors with an average age of 22 qualified for the … Read more
