(China Daily) China Unicom unveiled a big plan to accelerate the company's intelligent computing infrastructure, including exploring a 100,000-GPU cluster deployment and targeting 45 EFLOPS of computing power, by the end of 2025.  

EFLOPS is a unit of the speed of computer systems and is equal to 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second.  

The plan, announced by Chen Zhongyue, chairman of China Unicom, at the company's partner conference in Shanghai over the weekend, is expected to position it among the world's most powerful AI computing benchmarks.  

In parallel, China Unicom will advance its Computing Power Intelligence Network through substantial network upgrades. The company is accelerating its transition to ultra-high-speed 800G and 1.2T bandwidth technologies.

(Xinhua) China's Tsinghua University has placed top of the AdultSize category in the RoboCup Humanoid League soccer world championship, in the first time a Chinese team has claimed the top honor.  

RoboCup was founded in 1997 and ranks among the world's most prestigious robotics competitions. This year's event was held in Brazil, attracting over 20 teams from 12 countries, including China, the United States, Germany, the Republic of Korea and France.

Robots and other cutting-edge products took the spotlight at the opening day of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025 in Shanghai on Saturday. More than 80 new products are making their global or Chinese debuts at the event.  

With more than 1,570 guests from 73 countries and regions taking part in the 2025 conference, the exhibition area now stretches over a record 70,000 square meters.

(China Daily) The Megacity Intelligent Energy Management Master project was one of the top-prize winners at the 2025 World AI Conference & High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance (WAIC) in Shanghai on Saturday.  

The management system, operated by State Grid Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Co and powered by the AI+Guangming Large Model, stood out from among 223 projects.

(Xinhua) People view an AI-powered textile machine at the exhibition area of the 2025 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in east China's Shanghai, July 26, 2025. 

The event kicked off on Saturday. More than 1,000 officials and representatives of industries, universities and research institutes from home and abroad attended the opening ceremony.

(Xinhua) China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Sunday.  

The satellite group, the fifth of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, lifted off at 6:03 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully.  

The launch marked the 585th mission of the Long March series carrier rockets.

(Xinhua) Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Saturday said the international community should place greater emphasis on the joint governance of artificial intelligence (AI), calling for the early formation of a global framework and rules that have broad consensus to guide the development and use of AI.

(China Daily) China will ramp up efforts to bolster the development of future-oriented industries such as humanoid robots, the metaverse and brain-computer interface, in order to foster new growth drivers, while accelerating the application of artificial intelligence in manufacturing as well as other key industries, according to the country's top industry regulator.

(Xinhua) Chinese scientists have experimentally observed the quantum friction phenomenon at solid-solid interfaces for the first time, making a significant breakthrough in quantum friction research.  

The study was conducted by a research team led by Professor Zhang Junyan and Associate Professor Gong Zhenbin at the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, a part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The findings have been published in the journal Nature Communications.

(Xinhua) China's first Mars sample-return mission, Tianwen-3, is scheduled for launch around 2028, with the goal of returning no less than 500 grams of Martian samples to Earth by around 2031, according to the mission's chief scientist.
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