(China Daily) The latest Digital 2025: July Global Statshot report revealed that Southeast Asia accounts for nearly one-quarter of TikTok's global advertising audience, making it the platform's largest ad-viewer base.  

Ad-viewer base refers to the number of users who view advertisements. It describes the audience that sees and potentially interacts with ads, often measured as a rate or percentage of active users of the platform.  

Thailand has the world's second-highest proportion of monthly active TikTok users, with over 80 percent internet users engaging with the platform each month — well above the global average of just 30 percent.

(China Daily) Chinese automotive brands captured over 70 percent of the domestic passenger car market in July, fueled by surging new energy vehicle sales. It signals a fundamental shift in the industry's competitive dynamics.  

According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, vehicle sales reached 2.59 million units in July, down 10.7 percent month-on-month but up 14.7 percent year-on-year.

(China Daily) A driverless minibus route will start operations by the end of the month in Shenzhen’s Luohu district, linking six popular retail and entertainment venues in the area.  

Starting and ending at Luohu Port (罗湖口岸), the route passes through notable locations such as Guomao Building (国贸) – one of Shenzhen’s earliest skyscrapers, Di Wang Tower (地王), the MixC mall (万象食家) in the Sungang area, the Grand Theater (大剧院), and the MixC mall (万象城) on Bao’an South Road.

(China Daily) Shanghai is advancing efforts to build itself into an international e-sports hub by introducing top-tier world-class tournaments and more supportive policies.  

Global video game developer Riot Games will hold the 2026 global championships for its signature game Valorant in Shanghai, Whalen Rozelle, the company's head of international publishing and e-sports, announced on Aug 1.

(China Daily) A study of lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e 6 mission has dated the formation of the Apollo basin to 4.16 billion years ago, meaning the onset of the late heavy bombardment occurred at least 100 million years earlier than thought. The finding offers new insights into the early dynamic evolution of the moon and the solar system.  

The late heavy bombardment refers to a period of lunar basin-forming epoch due to intense bombardments from small celestial bodies.

(Xinhua) The boundary between reality and science fiction is fading fast.  

At a robotics company in Beijing, my morning began with a coffee made by a dual-arm robot. It expertly brewed the espresso, frothed the milk, and handed me a latte carefully topped with a decorative image of my choice. Coffee in hand, I stepped into an adjoining massage room, where another robot assessed my physical condition before gently placing its mechanical arm on my back to deliver a soothing massage.

(China Daily) The dazzling acrobatics of humanoid robots racing, kicking footballs and sparring dominated the recent World Robot Conference. Over 50 companies showcased their bipedal marvels, transforming the event into a veritable "World Humanoid Robot Carnival".

(AP) Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday that the company is discussing a potential new computer chip designed for China with the Trump administration.  

Huang was asked about a possible “B30A” semiconductor for artificial intelligence data centers for China while on a visit to Taiwan, where he was meeting Nvidia’s key manufacturing partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., the world’s largest chip maker.  

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(China Daily) Chinese electronic games are continuously thriving in global markets, and are increasingly becoming carriers of culture to promote cross-cultural understanding and exchanges as a new universal language, said industry experts during the recent 22nd China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference, better known as ChinaJoy, in Shanghai.  

By the end of June, China had a record 679 million gamers.

(China Daily) China is accelerating investment in the new and fast-growing space information — or "space computing" — sector which it sees as a future trillion-yuan driver of economic growth, with leading firms joining forces to develop the futuristic technology, which aims to process massive volumes of satellite and aerial data while in orbit.
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