China's Week, June 4

Robot OS, Deepseek AI rules, China more popular than the USA in global popularity, average Chinese richer, better fed than Americans?!

Science & Technology

Salmon farming ship raises 8,800 tons pa, processes it onboard, delivers by drone in 24 hours. China currently imports 80% of its salmon consumption.

Robot operating system integrates functions from the chip to physically interacting with the environment. Intewell OS works on all chips.

China’s driverless electric trucks replace thousands of mining drivers. 24 people replace a thousand-man crew operating 100 new trucks.

DeepSeek’s latest R1 0528 version is tied with Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro. Improved coding skills, matches Gemini 2.5 Pro in Artificial Analysis Coding.

Quantum-powered ‘diamond ring’ detects instability in real time, protects China’s power grid. First ±800kV UHV DC quantum sensor certified.

Lamarckism beats Darwinism? Cold-stressed rice passed on adaptive tolerance to low temperatures across five generations. Time to rethink evolutionary theory?

"One-third of the authors featured in Nature are Chinese. In ten years, that it will be half”.

Economy & Finance

232 development zones generate $2.4 trillion of GDP, $1.5 Tn foreign trade, 25% of China's overall trade and stabilize its foreign trade and investment.

By 2030 China will have fully functional intelligent supply chain systems across all critical sectors, and 100 leading enterprises driving the transformation.

Society & Environment

Livestreamer Dong Yuhui interviewed Nobel Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah and sold 110,000 copies of Gurnah’s books during their 100-minute conversation.

Governance

Augmented Reality leader Rokid’s investors are SOEs and it exclusively supplies

museums and built custom AR glasses for the PLA and the Space Station.

Employers, mostly state owned, bore urban healthcare costs until the 1990s, so Chinese taxpayers, but the countryside lacked health insurance and medical resources.

18.6% of Shanghainese smoked last year, 0.6% below 2023. 35% of local men and 1.4% of women still smoke.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

Sixty countries, the UN and 20 international organizations opened the International Organization for Mediation world headquarters in Wan Chai on Friday.

Defense

Front view of the J-36 fighter shows side-by-side pilot seating for commanding drone wingmen and launching long range munitions.

Adm. Mark Montgomery told Congress the US has 500 troops on Taiwan, “Needs to be a thousand.”

The Type 055 Lhasa missile cruiser used PLAAF early warning platforms for the first long-range anti-ship/air-defense strikes without relying solely on the ship’s radars.