IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

• China has a lot to offer the ambitious Asean Smart City Network project and has pledged to share its experience and technology
• But the rise of anti-China sentiment in Asean over South China Sea tensions and unpopular Mekong dam projects may hinder cooperation

In 1950s, collective farming system was introduced across China, making rural land ownership ‘collective’, in an unsuccessful economic experiment. In 1978, households of Xiaogang village, Fenyang County of Anhui Province de-collectivised their land contract rights from the collective to individual households. The subsequent rural land reforms allowed households to assume individual control over agricultural output, therefore increasing agricultural output dramatically across the nation.

• This is the fourth instalment in a four-part series examining the brewing US-China war over the development and deployment of artificial intelligence technology
• China has had success with AI and surveillance, but when it comes to social issues such as education, health care and agriculture, there is still a ways to go

For China, the advent of artificial intelligence is meant to be the silver bullet that unlocks further economic growth and helps solve deep-rooted social problems, such as the uneven distribution of resources in education and health care.

In China hat das Ministerium für Informationsindustrie angekündigt, dass sich eine Kommission mit einem neuen Dokumentenstandard beschäftigen wird. Die "docbase technical standarisation working commission" soll das Problem der Interoperabilität von Office-Anwendungen lösen. "Viele elektronische Dokumente können nicht ausgetauscht werden, da sie von unterschiedlichen Programmen erstellt werden. Auf den Spezifikationen sitzen große Firmen wie auf einem Monopol", wird ein Sprecher der Kommission von der chinesischen Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua zitiert.

Mit Ende Juni 2008 konnte China 253 Millionen Internetnutzer vorweisen und hat damit erstmals die USA als Spitzenreiter abgelöst. In dieser Woche hat die chinesische länderspezifische Top-Level-Domain (ccTLD) .cn auch die deutsche Endung .de überholt und ist damit die größte ccTLD im Internet. Das berichtet die staatliche Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua unter Berufung auf gestern, Donnerstag, veröffentlichte Zahlen des China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). Damit erhebt China den Anspruch, nun Internet-Nation Nummer eins zu sein.

China has launched a “Blockchain Test Zone” section in its recently-established Free Trade Zone on Hainan island. The project already involves a number of big-name companies and institutions including Oxford University, the People’s University of China, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It’s another step towards China’s goal to become a world leader in the blockchain, if not cryptocurrency per se, technology field.

China's rapid deployment of new technologies and desire to develop artificial intelligence (AI) will help lead the smart city development, experts said the other day.

Senior information technology experts and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley shared their opinions on China's smart city development and application at a seminar held by the US-Asia Technology Management Center and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

In less than 10 seconds, Zhou Bin, a resident in Fuzhou city, southeast China's Fujian Province, can access his social security and provident fund accounts on his cell phone.

"In the past, you had to find different official websites for different formalities and also apply for the verification code via your cell phone every time you log in," said Zhou.

Weiter erklärte Cao, dass heute sowohl von der Zentralregierung als auch von über 80 Prozent der lokalen Regierungen und Regierungsbehörden ab Kreisebene aufwärts Webseiten für E-Government eröffnet wurden.

Assistant Director in the E-Government Department Grace Hiwa said several ICT components to be implemented in a period of about four to five years will include the expansion of connectivity to 29 districts across the country.

According to the paper, titled "The Internet in China", 75 central and state organs, 32 provincial governments and 333 prefectural governments and over 80 percent county-level governments had set up their websites, providing various online services to facilitate people's work and life.

China has just taken the internet to a whole new level with the world’s first 10G broadband network, launched in the high-tech city of Xiong’an. Powered by Huawei and China Unicom, this 50G-PON tech promises blazing-fast speeds that could redefine connectivity, from instant movie downloads to lag-free cloud gaming.

China’s bold step toward building the smart cities of tomorrow

Xiong’an, a futuristic metropolis 70 miles southwest of Beijing, is China’s testing ground for cutting-edge tech, dreamed up in 2017 under President Xi Jinping’s vision. Now, it’s home to a 10G broadband network that hits download speeds of 10 gigabytes per second, per MSN. That means you could download a huge movie file in seconds or stream 8K video without a hiccup.

The annual report by the E-Government Research Center under the China Academy of Governance stated that the country has 176,714 government microblog accounts as of December 20, 2012, an increase of almost 2.5 times from the previous year.

Some 113,382 of these accounts are run by Communist Party of China committees, legislatures, governments, political advisors, Party disciplinary watchdogs as well as judicial and prosecutorial agencies and government-sponsored institutions.

The experts made the statement during a forum yesterday, organized by the Foundation of Taiwan Medical Development.

During the news conference, a demonstration was held to showcase how cloud computing may have medical applications: databases of health and medical records of different races of people were uploaded to the Internet for download by hospitals, which can then design preventive care programs based on these databases.

China ist drauf und dran, im Internet die USA als weltweite Nummer eins abzulösen. Wie aus einer von China Tech News veröffentlichten Untersuchung von Morgan Stanley hervorgeht, hat die Zahl der Webuser im Reich der Mitte Ende des Vorjahres 80 Millionen erreicht. Damit liegt das Riesenreich weltweit bereits auf Platz zwei und muss sich nur den USA geschlagen geben.

China highly values artificial intelligence (AI) development and injects big in developing a new generation of AI technologies, an official from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) said at Tuesday's press conference.

China has initiated two batches of key projects on new generation AI technologies, with the investment amounting to 1 billion yuan (about 140.7 million U.S. dollars), said Qin Yong, director-general of the Department of High and New Technology of the MOST.

Imagine your daily routine being entirely dependent on a smart phone app. Leaving your home, taking the subway, going to work, entering cafes, restaurants and shopping malls — each move, dictated by the color shown on your screen. Green: you're free to proceed. Amber or Red: you're barred from entry.

This has been the reality for hundreds of millions of people in China since midway through the coronavirus crisis — and it could yet stay that way for the foreseeable future, as the country battles to recover from it.