At CNCC 2026, Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Zhang Weinan argued that physical intelligence — AI that senses, predicts and acts in the real world — is the field's hardest open problem, because mistakes in a factory cannot be undone with a keystroke.
Brazil needs a decade more of grid expansion, with new lines earning fees for decades. Chinese and Japanese suppliers are taking opposite routes to win that business, and the difference in strategy may decide who captures the steadiest profits.
Tech giants are racing to build orbital data centers, betting that space-based computing can solve AI's growing energy and cooling constraints. For chipmakers, space represents a new growth market beyond Earth's crowded terrestrial facilities.
Zhang Xue, the Chongqing motorcycle builder turned internet personality, says he cannot pay master's graduates the 200,000 to 300,000 yuan that nearby car companies offer. His company posts strong output but is still losing money, and students are looking at the other offer sheet.
A Chinese engineer describes how a bridge beam was nearly demolished over cracks that experts called structural, until a four-step check showed the diagnosis could not hold. The method asks why only one span cracked, and why the bottom and not the top.
BYD unveiled its ultra-luxury Yangwang Dingyao sedan in Abu Dhabi, alongside a limited "Shanhe Dingyun" edition with a brown-and-jade colour scheme and a 300,000 yuan deposit. The launch signals BYD's push into the executive flagship segment.
BYD's ultra-luxury Yangwang U9X recorded 503.17 km/h, the first time a production car has broken the 500 km/h barrier. The run underlines how Chinese automakers are using electric drive and vehicle engineering to chase performance records once owned by European brands.
China's big construction-machinery makers posted rising revenue but falling profit in the first three quarters of 2026, with currency losses and weaker domestic prices eating the gains. Overseas sales carry far higher margins than at home, making exports the industry's real profit engine.
China now retires roughly 9.8 million vehicles a year, and the country's steelmakers are moving into dismantling and recycling them. The shift turns a scrapyard business into a hunt for usable steel, parts and materials.
A wave of Chinese carmakers — Li Auto, Xiaomi, Leapmotor, Xpeng — now advertise self-developed batteries. The fight is not over who makes the cells, but over who controls the pack, the software and the margin.
A Chinese pharmaceutical company that pivoted toward computing power is selling idle assets to book a one-off gain of about 55 million yuan. The move buys time while its computing business moves from signed contracts to actual operations.
BMW Brilliance has begun a staffing cut across three Shenyang plants, with departing workers estimating 1,800 to 2,000 P-class production roles affected and a severance package of N+5 months. The move lands as foreign joint-venture carmakers lose ground in China's fast-shifting market.
Volvo's plug-in hybrid XC70 is now landing below 200,000 yuan at Beijing dealerships, with sales staff saying each sale loses more than 20,000 yuan. The discount narrows the gap between the XC70 and the petrol XC60 to a level that unsettles the brand's own lineup.
A motorcycle-maker's campus recruitment in Chongqing drew ridicule for offering 985 and 211 graduates 120,000 to 150,000 yuan a year in R&D roles. Founder Zhang Xue hit back at critics, turning a routine job posting into a public argument about what elite graduates are worth.
Hino and Mitsubishi Fuso merged into Archion in April and now face Chinese heavy-truck brands together, leaning on about 3,700 global sales and service points. Chinese makers went from near zero to roughly 40% of Indonesia's heavy-truck market in four years.
Photos of China's first all-electric passenger aircraft, the COMAC CE-25A, have surfaced online, showing ten battery-powered ducted fans on its wings. The full-scale demonstrator has drawn mockery as well as interest, raising questions about whether electric aviation is a serious path or an expensive detour.
Domestic brands now command nearly three-quarters of China's car market, and the foreign joint ventures that once dominated are being forced into painful self-rescue plans. Toyota and Audi are among those rewriting strategy as the old playbook stops working.
A Chinese commentator argues that China's next big economic lever is not new construction but retrofitting what is already built: factories that need more power and logistics, communities short of elder care and childcare, and offices sitting empty while firms hunt for space.
A Qingdao Porsche saleswoman has topped the brand's national rankings for a third straight year, even as the dealer group she works for lost 275 million yuan in six months. The contrast captures a luxury car market where individual stars shine while showrooms struggle.
As GPT-6 Astra fuels fears that general AI will swallow robotics, Chinese embodied-AI firm AgiBot staged a launch event built around its Worken compute accounting and 20,000-unit shipment record, arguing robot makers still own the physical half of the problem.
Xingyu, China's largest car-lamp supplier, said third-quarter profit fell 39.6% and revenue 8.67% as pressure from the passenger-car market moved down the supply chain. The firm also cut 107 graduate hires, a sign that cost discipline now reaches into components.
Xinke Materials lost its chairman early after he sold nearly 7 million yuan of stock, posted a third-quarter loss, and quietly gained a veteran copper-processing figure among its top shareholders. The three disclosures landed in the same window, making the state-controlled copper firm a case study in how Chinese listed companies handle abrupt transitions.
In the first three quarters of 2026, China's top 30 cities by GDP were all announced, with Qingdao edging past Tianjin in the north and Wuxi overtaking Changsha. Twenty-five of the 30 grew faster than the national average.
CATL used Australia's All-Energy 2026 show to pitch energy storage as a long-term, asset-backed service rather than a box of cells, raising the bar for what a battery vendor must guarantee. The shift matters for a market where renewables already dominate generation.
Brazil's car industry once built a president in Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and now Chinese automakers are moving in as the country searches for an industrial way forward. The story traces how a new wave of investment is meeting a market shaped by seven decades of carmaking.
A Shanghai Star Market survey shows 24 of 49 listed optical communication companies grew third-quarter net profit by more than 50%, driven by AI computing and data-center demand for high-speed optical links.
A Munich showroom run by a Chinese dealer group shows how BYD compressed decades of brand-building into five years in Europe. Meanwhile, Chinese carmakers are moving from exports to local factories, with Leapmotor's first Spanish-built B10 rolling off an old Stellantis line.
A Zhihu discussion argues that today's Chinese buses, despite better specs and smoother roads, often feel harsher than the models of the 1980s and 1990s. The reason lies in technology that stopped changing decades ago and in how buses are now bought and specified.
Seres, the Chinese automaker that built its Aito brand alongside Huawei, reported a 41.7% revenue drop in the third quarter but swung back to a 1.42 billion yuan net profit. The numbers show how hard it is to decouple from a powerful technology partner.
A new embodied-AI data center in Hangzhou aims to replace slow human-operated collection with simulation, claiming it can produce in a month what the industry took two years to gather. The pitch reframes robot training capacity as a computing problem rather than a labor problem.
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