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Pinduoduo founder Huang Zheng has stepped down as chairman to pursue research in agriculture and life sciences.

Chinese tech billionaires have a huge public image problem in recent months and Huang was ruthlessly mocked for taking Pinduoduo into the fresh produce distribution business. There's a saying on the Chinese internet "American tech billionaires are busy sending rockets to Mars, Chinese tech billionaires are busy eating vegetable sellers' lunch".

I guess Huang finally see the light. Quotes from his final letter to investors



There's a lot of truth to Huang's letter. Improving efficiency of the supply chain is important, but ultimately what bring humanity forward are novel, groundbreaking products.

The commentator Ning Nanshan has written an article (in Chinese) calling for China's tech giants to do the "diffcult things" rather than always competing for the lowest hanging fruits.
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I hope Huang can stay true to what he said in his letter and make contribution, in his own ways, to the advancement of life sciences and their applications.
He donated 100 millions Usd to zhejiang University
 

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0:00 Huawei's AI system in Shenzhen airport. Reduced check-in to boarding times.
2:00 Huawei developed airport control center.
4:10 5G container port. Reduced physical injury of operators. Eventually port will be fully automated with self driving cargo trucks.
13:00 Animal conservation. Real time footage of protected areas to monitor animals and prevent human mischief. Previously footage from tens of thousands of cameras had to be manually retrieved causing footage to be months old. System is able to automatically catalog the type of animal it is recording.
26:20 360 video created by AI. Users are able to view a basketball game from any vantage point around the court.

We are already seeing the applications for a 5G economy being developed. From industrial applications like automated logistics to consumer entertainment. I think the ability to view a sports game from any vantage point and controlling it from your finger tips is very compelling.
 

Petrolicious88

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I would believe the best way to go about it now is to keep their mouths shut.

Shenzhen announced they had completed their standalone 5G network. About 3 weeks later, Beijing announced they had completed their standalone 5G network. Then the trade war or tech war heated up. China went silent.

Right now, with the silence, the Americans are clueless on the state of Chinese networks in the 5G jungle.

They are going to get ambushed.
Don’t think that’s how intelligence is gathered.
 

horse

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Don’t think that’s how intelligence is gathered.
What exactly is the competitive position of 5G networks in America, compared to the 5G standalone networks in China?

That, no one knows.

If the CIA knows, not sure what would that mean. The CIA is many things, heroes to some, scoundrels to most, but they are not in the telecom business, or network installation and applications business.

CIA may be involved in side businesses, but telecommunications equipment and software built on top of that, that is not them.

The US government and US corporations, they do not know their competitive position. They know they are behind. How far behind, they do not know.
 

Hendrik_2000

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This is an excellent series by CGTN proof once for all that Chinese engineering can invent new machinery refuting the lie that constantly spread by western analyst, think tank or ideologue Its 4 part series hopefully I can find all of them The first part is about Huge Mine excavator, Tunnel boring machine and Lock lift for 3 gorge dam

This is a series about the marvels of Chinese engineering - the forces that are powering the world’s largest manufacturing nation, the genius behind its mania for cutting-edge infrastructure development. In the first episode we look at the world’s biggest scooping bucket excavator as it harvests coal at Inner Mongolia’s Haerwusu Mine. Then we go underground to see a shield-tunneling machine, which can bore subway tunnels through any kind of rock. Lastly, we take a ride on the world’s biggest vertical hoist shiplift, which can carry 3,000-ton vessels over the Three Gorges Dam in Hubei province.
 

ansy1968

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This is an excellent series by CGTN proof once for all that Chinese engineering can invent new machinery refuting the lie that constantly spread by western analyst, think tank or ideologue Its 4 part series hopefully I can find all of them The first part is about Huge Mine excavator, Tunnel boring machine and Lock lift for 3 gorge dam

This is a series about the marvels of Chinese engineering - the forces that are powering the world’s largest manufacturing nation, the genius behind its mania for cutting-edge infrastructure development. In the first episode we look at the world’s biggest scooping bucket excavator as it harvests coal at Inner Mongolia’s Haerwusu Mine. Then we go underground to see a shield-tunneling machine, which can bore subway tunnels through any kind of rock. Lastly, we take a ride on the world’s biggest vertical hoist shiplift, which can carry 3,000-ton vessels over the Three Gorges Dam in Hubei province.
@Hendrik_2000 , using AI they have shortened the time constructing a major dam in four years, a feat unheard of from the west!!!


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6 days ago — The speed of Baihetan's constructionhas raised eyebrows, in a country where rapid infrastructure building is the norm.
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I saw some others post about Huawei HarmonyOS as a big deal. Actually the OS is kind of minor. What we consider "Android" outside of China is really "Google Play Services". This is the integration between email/maps/app store/messaging/phone-calling that Google provides to Android separately from the OS itself. Since Android is technically an "open" system, these can be taken out and replaced as needed. Since Google has the most extensive mapping and app store, there's no desire to replace these elements outside of China. However, if Huawei Mobile Services can become a mature product and used by vendors besides Huawei, then perhaps Google's dominance in the space can be challenged.
 

Hendrik_2000

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Here is the 2nd installment of Mega engineering video by CGTN On this episode it talk about AP1000 low pressure Steam Turbine manufacturing in Qiqihar Inner MOngolia and Heavy marine crankshaft manufacturing in Dalian. It also talk about West-East High voltage transmission line, Heavy natural gas compressor. From this episode you can see the skill, dedication, precision and modern tool and equipment that China have to manufacture High Tech Engineering work. It give glimpse to China's engineering and manufacturing might!

China’s energy resources tend to be concentrated in the far west, but energy is most intensively consumed in the booming cities of the east coast. To bridge this gap, China has built many mega projects, like the 4,200-km-long natural gas transmission network and the three West-East Ultra-high voltage transmission lines in the nation’s electrical grid. The constructions of all these projects call for the most advanced technical equipment - so-called ‘mega-equipment’. See the role that meg-equipment is playing in the lights on in China, and how it is opening a new chapter in the history of China’s rise as a major manufacturing power.

 
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Hendrik_2000

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Here is 3rd installment of the series, In this episode It talk about Orthopedic surgery robot, artificial rib made by using 3 D printing, Intelligent mining machinery, High speed intelligent stamping machine for car body

his episode takes a look at a trend that looks set to shape the future - the rise of intelligent machines! Not so long ago the idea that machines would soon be able to perform tasks as complex as surgery would have been dismissed as fantasy. Now it is has become a reality. Likewise, the development of a machine capable of doing the work of 1000 coal miners would have been regarded as a very distant prospect. Now that too has become a reality. Welcome to the world of intelligent machines in which science fiction is becoming science fact!

 
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