(China Daily) Fast-evolving artificial intelligence is expected to foster new consumption growth drivers and inject strong impetus into China's consumer market as this cutting-edge digital technology is spearheading a technological revolution and industrial transformation to drive economic growth, said experts and company executives.  

They said that commercial use of AI in e-commerce and home appliances will not only improve the consumer shopping experience and merchants' operational efficiency, but also create new consumption scenarios and bolster product sales.

(China Daily) China's commitment to cultivating new quality productive forces through scientific and technological innovation, as reiterated by President Xi Jinping, will help the country gain a competitive edge in strategic emerging fields and tech frontiers, and contribute to global economic growth, said experts and company executives.

(China Daily) Chinese vaccine company Sinovac Biotech Ltd announced on Monday that its newly developed adsorbed tetanus vaccine has officially obtained approval from the National Medical Products Administration, marking a milestone in the company's push to expand its presence in the trauma care sector.  

The vaccine features aluminum hydroxide adjuvants with a particle size of just 300 nanometers, far smaller than the 1 to 10 micrometer range of traditional adjuvants.

(Xinhua) China's State Taxation Administration on Friday released value-added tax (VAT) invoice data for the period from April 2024 to July 2025, which reveals that the equipment-renewal program and consumer goods trade-ins have played an active role in facilitating industrial upgrading and transformation, boosting consumer demand, and improving economic circulation.  

In the said period, the nationwide enterprise purchases of machinery equipment increased by 7.3 percent year on year.

(China Daily) China's exports of home appliances grew steadily in the first half of the year, with emerging markets including Latin America, the Middle East and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations showing an upward trajectory, according to a report by an industry association.

(China Daily) Chinese smartphone vendor Vivo unveiled its first mixed reality headset, the Vivo Vision, positioning it as a direct competitor to Apple's Vision Pro in both design and interaction.  

Yet the mixed reality market remains far from mature. Even Apple has struggled to move beyond a niche audience with its device, which starts at $3,500. According to the market research firm International Data Corp, global sales of Apple's Vision Pro remained under one million units in 2023.

(China Daily) British compute platform company Arm is positioning its new Zena CSS as a flexible computing foundation for the next generation of AI-powered vehicles, providing automakers and chipmakers a way to accelerate development while maintaining flexibility for differentiation.

(China Daily) Chinese new energy vehicle startups posted a record-breaking performance in the first half of this year, demonstrating their growing momentum in both domestic and overseas markets.  

Leapmotor has turned a profit for the first time in a half year, joining Li Auto as the only Chinese NEV startups to achieve that milestone.  

In the first six months of 2025, Leapmotor's deliveries surged 155.7 percent from a year earlier to 221,664 vehicles, the highest among Chinese NEV startups.

(China Daily) A research team at Nankai University in Tianjin has made major strides in detecting text generated by artificial intelligence, developing a system that significantly reduces false positives and false negatives, a problem that has plagued many existing tools.  

The team's research paper on the system has been accepted by ACM Multimedia 2025, one of the world's leading computer science conferences.

(Xinhua) China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan early Tuesday.  

The satellite group, the tenth of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, was launched at 3:08 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-8A carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully.
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