Chinese President Xi Jinping has highlighted the importance of food security, saying it was a “political responsibility” for major agricultural areas. During a tour of northeastern China, Xi also said that “further reform and opening up” was crucial to revitalising the region’s economy, and urged the area to create a better “market-oriented, rule- and law-based,…
Huawei Technologies has opened a massive campus in a suburb of Shanghai, which serves as a base to promote innovations for China’s technology self-sufficiency drive, as the company demonstrates its resilience under US sanctions. The Lianqiu Lake campus, which boasts a floor area more than 10 times larger than that of Alphabet’s Googleplex headquarters in…
China is reviving aspects of a Mao Zedong-era plan to relocate critical facilities away from the country’s most densely populated areas to its western hinterlands. Mao’s 1964 “Third Front Construction” initiative was motivated by Cold War fears of nuclear attack, fuelled by the deepening American involvement in Vietnam and increased hostility between China and the…