Tariffs imposed by the US have made exporting to the country “impossible” for Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers, an executive at major producer Xpeng has said during his visit to Hong Kong. But Yeqing Zheng said on Thursday that the Guangzhou-based Xpeng’s enhanced efforts to tap into other markets, which involved establishing assembly operations outside…
Six universities in Hong Kong have finished in the top 50 of a closely watched league table in Asia for the first time since 2017, with the city’s two oldest tertiary education institutions ranking among the 10 best in the region. The 2025 Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings, published on Thursday, saw Baptist University…
Six universities in Hong Kong have finished in the top 50 of a closely watched league table in Asia for the first time since 2017, with the city’s two oldest tertiary education institutions ranking among the 10 best in the region. The 2025 Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings, published on Thursday, saw Baptist University…
As the United States continues to tighten restrictions on chip exports to China in a bid to curb the country’s access to advanced semiconductors, Chinese researchers have gone into overdrive. In recent years, Chinese universities have been leading the world in research on chip design and fabrication. And they are producing much of the basic…
Artificial intelligence is at the heart of the US-China tech war, with Chinese firms such as DeepSeek challenging American dominance. But while China has a growing AI talent pool and home-grown success stories, the country has also lost a handful of leading figures in the crucial sector. The early deaths of these experts – due…
China’s DeepSeek, in collaboration with researchers from Tsinghua University, developed a technique to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) that combines generative reward modeling (GRM) and self-principled critique tuning, SCMP reported, citing a paper published on Friday. The dual approach aims to enable LLMs to deliver better and faster results to general queries….
Six courses offered by two universities in Hong Kong have been listed among the top 10 in their respective global league tables, according to a ranking organisation, which also warned that financial cuts to the city’s higher education institutions could affect their competitiveness. The city also accounted for the most universities in Asia among a…
China is producing twice as many research papers as the US on chip design and fabrication, laying the foundation for a possible leadership role in next-generation semiconductor technology, according to a US think tank. While China is behind in advanced semiconductors and is restricted from buying high-end chipmaking tools such as the extreme ultraviolet lithography…
China is vying with Japan and Britain to host the 2030 maths Olympics for the second time, after it first held the event in 2002, an initiative led by eminent mathematician Shing-Tung Yau. Yau is leading a team of 40 Chinese and international mathematicians in the bid for the 2030 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM),…
China’s top universities are aggressively recruiting Chinese undergraduates abroad to skip traditional academic pathways and enrol directly into PhD programmes – as the US tightens funding for graduate studies and geopolitical tensions grow. It is a move that analysts have said reflects Beijing’s push to lure young academics from the United States. Fudan University, a…