News on China's scientific and technological development.

The Chinese government has selected 8,997 industrial enterprises as “”, which are eligible for preferential treatment to help the country become a stronger technological powerhouse in its competition with the US.

The data was disclosed during a national summit of little giants that kicked off on Thursday in Nanjing, capital of eastern Jiangsu province. President Xi Jinping said in a letter that he hopes such enterprises will “play a more important role in stabilising supply chains and promoting economic and social development”.

The summit also revealed that such companies made an average profit of 40 million yuan in 2021, more than three times the figure of small and medium-sized enterprises with annual revenue of at least 20 million yuan.

Little giants are smaller and often little-known businesses that have special products and know-how in strategic sectors like semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, energy and critical minerals. They have so far established more than 10,000 research institutes at state and provincial levels.

These companies have an average of 28.7 per cent of their employees working in research and development, in line with the 30 per cent rate for companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Science and Technology Innovation Board, known as the STAR market, according to state-owned Economic Daily.

In just three years, China has reached 90 per cent of its goal to name 10,000 little giants by 2025. Since 2019, Beijing has published four lists of companies designated as little giants, also referred to as “specialised and sophisticated enterprises”.

To be designated a little giant, a company must operate in strategically important industries, which includes software and artificial intelligence. They also need to be able to “fix weaknesses” in the domestic supply chain, according to the application form from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

China has felt a greater urgency to promote domestically developed technologies as an escalating has restricted access to certain supplies. From January through August, China’s import volume of integrated circuits (ICs) to 369.5 billion units, according to data from the General Administration of Customs.

MIIT minister Jin Zhuanglong vowed on Thursday to “improve the regulatory system” and “accelerate the introduction of supporting institutional measures to encourage innovation, financing and promotion”.

Officially recognised little giants can enjoy lucrative incentives from the central and provincial governments, including tax cuts, generous loans and favourable talent acquisition policies, but there is no standard incentive package.

The central government plans to set aside 10 billion yuan to support more than 1,000 little giants between 2021 and 2025, according to a document in early 2021.

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by 2030 China will establish 100,000 little giants.

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Unless the US is using personal data of Americans secretly and without their permission, they're in the same position in AI as they accuse China not being experienced militarily. You see the basics of all these important technologies of the future being applied at a commercial level in China. Use their own logic and since they're still stuck mostly in a lab, it means they haven't progressed much. Also it says something when the only way they can compete is by pushing the competition down.

AssassinsMace said:

Unless the US is using personal data of Americans secretly and without their permission, they're in the same position in AI as they accuse China not being experienced militarily. You see the basics of all these important technologies of the future being applied at a commercial level in China. Use their own logic and since they're still stuck mostly in a lab, it means they haven't progressed much. Also it says something when the only way they can compete is by pushing the competition down.

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Sir to beat China you have to become like China...lol The American Authoritarian system with Western Characteristic.

AssassinsMace said:

Unless the US is using personal data of Americans secretly and without their permission, they're in the same position in AI as they accuse China not being experienced militarily. You see the basics of all these important technologies of the future being applied at a commercial level in China. Use their own logic and since they're still stuck mostly in a lab, it means they haven't progressed much. Also it says something when the only way they can compete is by pushing the competition down.

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I wouldn't be surprised if they are using the data from all over NatoStan so about 1 billion people. It's already known that the US spies on other NATO countries leader. They also pretty much own both ends of the data pipeline so over the wire encryption is kind of useless against US government spying. Then you have the CLOUD act pretty much guaranteeing the US access to global US company cloud servers.

Overbom said:

I think its by Stanford University

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I remember another cope about Chinese AI. Saying that they are only good for surveillance. Uhh even if that's true, video based AI is other magnitude harder to develop than text or audio processing AI.

caudaceus said:

I remember another cope about Chinese AI. Saying that they are only good for surveillance. Uhh even if that's true, video based AI is other magnitude harder to develop than text or audio processing AI.

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Not an expert but this intuitively makes sense.

Text to me looks like 1D discrete dataset. There's only a given number of letters and there's no time dimension.

Audio looks like a 2D dataset that boils down to intensity vs time. From that you can derive frequency and all that but the raw input is simply intensity and time.

Video on the other hand is 6D data: each pixel can measure x-y positions, RGB values, time. Each new dimension added vastly increases the complexity.

FairAndUnbiased said:

Not an expert but this intuitively makes sense.

Text to me looks like 1D discrete dataset. There's only a given number of letters and there's no time dimension.

Audio looks like a 2D analog dataset that boils down to intensity vs time. From that you can derive frequency and all that but the raw input is simply intensity and time.

Video on the other hand is 6D data: each pixel can measure x-y positions, RGB values, time. Each new dimension added vastly increases the complexity.

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I mean consider a speech
Text of that speech is <1MB
HD Audio of that speech might be >100 MB
HD Video of that speech will be >1GB

It's very clear from the file size alone the jump in complexity of video compared to audio and text. Not even close

2022-09-09 18:14:53Xinhua Editor : Hao Yunhui

Hydrogen, a form of clean energy, can be directly produced from the air with electrolysis technology powered by renewable energy, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications.
The newly-developed technology makes it possible to convert solar or wind energy into fuel through electrolysis of water, even in areas with water shortages.
A group of scientists from the Ganjiang Innovation Academy under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne jointly developed an electrolytic cell prototype. It can in situ absorb moisture in the air, instead of using liquid water, and produce hydrogen via electrolysis.
Powered by solar or wind energy, the prototype operated for 12 consecutive days producing stable performance, the paper said.
It can work in a dry environment with only 4 percent humidity and produce green hydrogen sustainably with minimal impact on the environment, indicating that remote arid and semi-arid areas can expect to be powered by clean energy through use of this technology, according to the paper.

caudaceus said:

I mean consider a speech
Text of that speech is <1MB
HD Audio of that speech might be >100 MB
HD Video of that speech will be >1GB

It's very clear from the file size alone the jump in complexity of video compared to audio and text. Not even close

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I think “language” is more multidimensional than “text” is. But all the same image audio and text interpretation are all “language” not simply the signal mediums of their formats.

latenlazy said:

I think “language” is more multidimensional than “text” is. But all the same image audio and text interpretation are all “language” not simply the signal mediums of their formats.

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Language is more than "text," it's also more about "context" and knowledge. To understand a piece of text, you often need to bring in the context and the necessary knowledge which are often implicit and unspoken. That's why large language models such as BERT are so large, because they're trained on huge amount of text and have so many parameters.

Yes, technically language or text is a one-dimensional sequence of symbols. Save for simple sentences, language is more than one dimension if you take into consideration of the context and implicit knowledge. One dimensional language can only express the simplest of ideas.