Insider Brief China Telecom identified quantum as a key growth driver in 2025, reporting 65.4% revenue growth while integrating the technology into its broader cloud, AI, and security strategy. The company’s quantum business is expanding primarily through communication services, with 6.8 million subscribers and deployments across government and enterprise sectors, though most use cases focus…
China should more actively pursue the global lead in quantum governance to secure a strategic edge, an influential mainland think tank has urged, as dual-use quantum tech emerges as an increasingly important front in the country’s wide-ranging rivalry with the United States. China could also diversify its technological partnerships by deepening cooperation with EU countries…
Insider Brief China’s 14th Five-Year Plan elevates quantum information as a core part of a broader deep tech ecosystem aimed at achieving technological and economic self-reliance. The plan expands quantum’s role beyond communications to include computing and sensing, tripling the number of references compared to the 13th Five-Year Plan. While the emphasis on quantum has…
China announced it has begun mass producing the world’s first ultra-low noise, single-photon detector featuring four channels, suggesting that powerful applications loom in everything from daily communications to national defence. Dubbed the “photon catcher”, the device can detect a single photon – the smallest unit of energy – making it a core component in cutting-edge…