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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword in China since Google’s AlphaGo beat the 18-time world champion Lee Sedol and later the current world No. 1 ranking player Ke Jie in Go matches. Known as one of the most sophisticated strategy games in the world, Go, mostly referred as Weiqi in China, was once considered impossible…

October 2018 marked the 69th anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. China has turned from a country that could barely feed its people to the second largest economy in the world. A strong indicator of the economy going uphill is that people have more buying power to fulfill their wants. Also,…

With more than 800 million Internet users in China, the number of internet-related cases are on the rise as well. To handle those disputes, China opened the first Internet court in Hangzhou in 2017, followed by a second establishment in Beijing opened earlier this month. The Internet courts are said to “strengthen the online protection…

The 2018 China Internet Security Conference (ISC) was recently held in Beijing. Experts from China’s Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security and Internet security companies participated in in-depth discussions on network security challenges in the era of digital transformation. Hequan Wu, ISC’s Honorary President, believes that Internet…

In recent years, with the entry of cloud providers and innovative startups, the CDN market has continued to experience fierce price wars, and the market structure has changed rapidly. In addition, with the tightening of the capital market, a few smaller CDN startups did not survive. On August 29, a ChinaCache-initiated workshop focusing on the…

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently published the 42nd edition (the report is in Chinese) of Statistical Report on Internet Development in China (“Report”). The Report included some key updates since the last edition was released in January 2018. One of the most crucial updates is that the number of Internet users in China has…

Edge computing is on the rise globally. Gartner predicts that 40% of companies will have their edge computing strategy ready by 2021. The number in 2017 was only 1%. The global cloud market is predicted to reach $565 billion in 2021, among which edge cloud contributes 20% with a market worth $113 billion. 43% of…

It is well-known that China has the largest Internet population around the world, but it is much less of a common knowledge when it comes to what the Chinese Internet landscape is like, such as the trends and regulations. The China Internet Report 2018 (“the report”) recently published by Abacus News covered some themes of…