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Executive Summary
This research report examines perceptions of and approaches to personalization among news organizations and technology companies in China and aims to identify the current state of personalized recommendation technology within the Chinese digital news landscape. Between September 2019 and August 2020, we conducted interviews with 26 individuals from 19 organizations, pausing to adjust for the COVID-19 outbreak, and re-interviewing people we spoke with before the pandemic occurred.
We found that our interviewees considered personalization a defining element of the Chinese online news ecosystem. Personalization was a core factor for revenue generation, or, for state-sponsored media organizations, it was key for boosting relevance and attention.
China s self-driving is on expressways
May 09, 2021, 16:48
Self-driving cars are under hot debate recently on China s social media. Some say it s a cool technology that frees people from the wheel, while others complain such tech may lead to dangerous situations.
Recent accidents involving Tesla cars in China put some doubt on the country s determination to open up more to self-driving cars.
But on the other hand, the Chinese government and enterprises have been working to allow more and more test drives, and we are seeing a lot of progress.
One of the key battlegrounds is the expressway, which in China mainly means the intercity highway network on which vehicles are allowed to travel as fast as 120 kilometers per hour (km/h).
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Chinese technology titan Baidu and carmaking giant Geely are to pour 50 billion yuan (US$7.7 billion) into making next-generation cars .
Jidu Auto, the electric vehicle (EV) venture formed by Baidu and Geely in January, will invest the money over the next five years and aims to deliver its first smart car by 2024, Baidu confirmed in response to a Post inquiry
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Reuters first reported the plan earlier on Friday. Jidu’s CEO Xia Yiping told the news agency the company will aim to bring out a new model every year or 18 months after the first one.
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Xi’s next target in tech crackdown is China’s vast reams of data
By unleashing the data market’s value and potential, the Chinese president is positioning
the nation to become a leader in transforming the world economy
By Colum Murphy / Bloomberg
With Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) targeting China’s massive tech giants, the big question now is how he would get them to share key data as part of a sweeping plan to transform the world’s second-biggest economy.
Until recently, China’s megafirms, such as Jack Ma’s (馬雲) Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd, have operated in a similar way to US counterparts Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc, harnessing user data to refine an expanding array of digital services. Since more data lead to better products, the tech platforms often become natural monopolies giving them enormous wealth and power that also opens the door for abuses.