Inside China's "unlikely" AI computing hub

Fuzhou in southeast China's Fujian province, located on China's southeastern coast, where the Minjiang River flows into the East China Sea, is a city of lush greenery. With a history spanning more than 2,200 years, the renowned historical and cultural city has preserved a rich cultural legacy while bearing the marks of its maritime openness.

China successfully launched a Zhuque-2E Y4 carrier rocket from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwest China on Wednesday.The rocket lifted off at 7:40 p.m. (Beijing Time) and deployed 10 satellites into their preset orbits. The flight test mission was declared a complete success.

The China Chamber of Commerce in Sierra Leone and the 27th Chinese medical team to Sierra Leone jointly provided medical supplies and free clinical consultations to residents at the Waterloo Community Health Center, also known as the Chris Brownlie Wellness Center, in the Western Area Rural District in Sierra Leone on Oct. 10.

China, which operates the world's largest high-speed rail network, has issued a railway science and technology innovation plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030). This innovation plan outlines key tasks in basic research and frontier technologies, engineering construction, technical equipment, transport services, digital and intelligent railways, safety, and green and low-carbon development.

Driven by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), computing power has evolved into indispensable new digital infrastructure. It enables a wide range of real-world applications: AI systems can now estimate caloric content from a simple photograph; massive traffic datasets are processed in real time to optimize urban mobility.