National Data Resources Survey Report 2023 released at digital economy summit finds 22 per cent of Chinese firms surveyed have no data management system.
Sanctions-hit Huawei Technologies Co said on Monday (July 18) it would release this month an updated version of its self-developed operating system HarmonyOS, heeding Beijing's call to shake off China's reliance on foreign technologies. HarmonyOS 3 will be released on July 27, according to Huawei's statement posted on the microblogging site Weibo. The company did not elaborate on the features.
Kylinsoft joined forces with more than 10 Chinese entities to create an open-source code community named openKylin. China’s quest for a domestic operating system has been going on for decades, but Microsoft Windows remains dominant.
China, the Second Largest Digital Economy Should Avoid Fights Over Digital Taxes: Former Head of Central Bank
On April 21, Zhou Xiaochuan, the former governor of the People’s Bank of China, spoke at the Boao Forum for Asia, with an emphasis on digital taxes.
He confirmed that digital taxes will be discussed at the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit this July when every member state is expected to express its views.
Zhou indicated that China’s discussion of its views should “avoid falling into fights with each other over the digital tax, especially about whose wallet the money raised from the digital tax belongs to” as “the fights could easily emerge as a new tariff war.”