Yi Liu

1 week ago | mdpi.com | Yi Liu |Parth Shah |Tian Xia |Dryver Huston

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2 weeks ago | thewirechina.com | Ella Apostoaie |Yi Liu

China’s huge commitment to renewable energy, from vast solar farms in Xinjiang to offshore wind projects in Guangdong, is a well-known success story — such plants together accounted for over a third of the country’s total electricity generation last year. Getting the price right for all the power those wind and solar plants produce, to ensure it doesn’t go to waste and China’s energy system becomes less polluting, has been more of an issue.

3 weeks ago | thewirechina.com | Yi Liu |Ella Apostoaie

When Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted a rare meeting with private sector business leaders last month there was one glaring omission from the guest list: Robin Li, the 56-year-old founder and chief executive of Baidu. Baidu's SEC Form 424B4 prospectus form, filed prior to the company's IPO. Credit: NASDAQOnce hailed as the “pride of China”, Li created Baidu as “China’s Google,” and the company was long recognized as a core member of China’s tech elite.

1 month ago | thewirechina.com | Yi Liu |Noah Berman |Ella Apostoaie

ManusAI this week became the latest little-known Chinese AI firm to emerge with surprisingly advanced capabilities. Yet whether or not its rise is truly another ‘DeepSeek moment,’ the two companies will soon have at least one thing in common: how easily anyone can see and use the technology behind their sudden success. An example use case of the Manus AI agent. “We'll be open-sourcing quite a few good things in the near future,” ManusAI’s co-founder Ji Yichao wSubscribe or login to read the rest.

1 month ago | thewirechina.com | Yi Liu |Ella Apostoaie

A doctor checks a patient's CT scan at the imaging department of Boxing County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Binzhou, China, February 10, 2024. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via AP Images Amid a wave of closures of private hospitals and rising demand for medical services and drugs in China, some of the country’s tech giants are stepping in — both online and in bricks and mortar.