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The Chinese economy has grown steadily with good momentum despite a complicated domestic and external environment, a senior government official said.

Chinese economic growth has stabilized within a range of 6.7 to 6.9 percent for 12 quarters in a row, said Ning. In the first half of the year, the economy grew 6.8 percent year on year.

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AutoNavi and Delphi announced a strategic deal to jointly promote app development of interconnected infotainment systems and automatic driving technologies in the Chinese market.

The strategic cooperation is non-exclusive and financial terms were not released. The cooperation will cover big data, navigation and travel services, and automatic driving technologies.

In big data and navigation and travel services sectors, the two parties will implement infotainment system and IT-related service innovations targeting the Chinese market. Relying on AutoNavi's real-time traffic information and location-based online maps, Delphi will provide route planning services and online point of interest search services in its infotainment system and navigation system.

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Inside Huawei’s secretive plans to develop an operating system to rival Google’s Android.

• The OS issue took an extra urgency after the US government in mid-May placed Huawei and its affiliates on a trade blacklist
• One of the biggest technical challenges for the Huawei OS under development has been its compatibility with Android, people say

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Intel dropped a lot of Ice Lake news today, including an embargo lift on performance data concerning the new CPU. ExtremeTech was not aware that Intel had held a testing event in which reporters from various sites were invited to benchmark Ice Lake under controlled conditions and did not include this data in our initial coverage earlier today. We have reached out to Intel to clarify the situation, given that we were on hand at Architecture Day last winter to report on the initial Ice Lake CPU architecture and have covered Intel’s foundry research and developments for the past eight years.

Now that we actually know what CPU performance factually looks like, we’ve got a much better basis for discussing it relative to Intel’s Whiskey Lake. Our sister site PCMag has done a thorough comparison of Ice Lake against Whiskey Lake, with the Core i7-8565U represented in multiple form factors and systems from different OEMs. That’s actually incredibly useful because it shows just how large the gap between laptops can be, and how important proper testing (and thermals) are.

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Most consumers buy laptops these days, but many gaming laptops might as well be desktops for how impractical they are to haul around. It’s understandable when gaming laptops have to cram in so many high-end components. However, Acer’s new Predator Triton 300 takes a different approach. This gaming laptop weighs just 5 pounds (2.3 kilograms) and has enough power to satisfy the average gamer.

While this could be aptly described as an “entry-level” gaming laptop, it’s significantly more powerful than your average mainstream notebook. The Triton 300 packs a 15.6-inch 1080p LCD with a 144Hz refresh rate. Whether or not you see all those extra frames in games will depend on what you play. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 video card isn’t going to set the world on fire, but it’s an able gaming GPU for a laptop.

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Hong Kong, China, March 23, 2019 /Xinwengao.com/ - Hong Kong Cruise and Yacht Industry Association (HKCYIA) has reached a partnership agreement with the China Merchants Industry Holdings Co. Ltd for the establishment of the Hong Kong’s first Superyacht Management Services Center in Tsing Yi. Located at the Yiu Lian and Euroasia Dockyards, the centre will provide world-class supporting services for superyachts of over 45 meters, including yacht refit, repair and maintenance services.

Speaking at the signing ceremony witnessed by lawyers of Stephenson Harwood, Kara Yeung, HKCYIA Executive Director said “the establishment of a yacht management services center specifically designed for superyachts has marked a major milestone in the development of the yacht industry in Hong Kong. As more yachts are becoming bigger in recent years, the demand for quality superyacht management services is on the rise. However, existing facilities in Hong Kong are lagging behind leaving some very big space for development in this field.”

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With rumors of technology companies feeling the financial sting of the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, one key government landlord is giving a helping hand to startups.

Cyberport, a Hong Kong government property located on the south side of Hong Kong island, is known as an inexpensive location for tech startups to setup shop. Though the property is inaccessible by the territory's MTR underground system, it still attracts a keen set of companies happy to trade off the transportation headaches with the much lower rent.
Now rents are even lower. In a letter seen by ChinaTechNews.com today, a memo from Chief Corporate Development Officer Stella Kwan has been circulating to tenants of Cyberport with an important cost reduction message. Kwan says Cyberport will "grant a 50% concession on rental for a period of six months with effect from Oct 2019" to some of the lucky co-working and shared office space tenants at Cyberport.

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ZTE and Sinopec Geophysical Research Institute recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement, under which the two parties will implement in-depth cooperation in the oil and gas exploration sector and jointly research and develop application innovations of 5G technologies in this sector.

Li Hui, vice president of ZTE, said that as a 5G pioneer, ZTE attaches great importance to 5G key technologies and products development. The company has 5G end-to-end solution core abilities and 5G complete product series scale advantage and core competitiveness. Sinopec Geophysical Research Institute is the brain of Sinopec and it is the R&D center of geophysical exploration high technologies and core technologies. The two parties will play their technical advantages in respective sectors to jointly promote 5G industrial application innovation.

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Chinese search engine giant Baidu announced that its intelligent small app has gained over 300 million monthly active users.

Small app is one of the two most important ecologies of Baidu mobile and it is supported by two major portals – search and information stream, which are considered differentiation advantages of Baidu intelligent small app.
Statistics showed that Baidu currently responses to billions of search requests on a daily basis and its daily average push of information stream reached 15 billion times.

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According to reports in Chinese local media, Vivo and the State Radio Monitoring Center Testing Center reached strategic cooperation and jointly announced to establish a 5G lab.

It is said that the 5G joint lab will fully play the advantages of the two parties in their respective sectors to promote technical cooperation and communication focusing on wireless communication technology development.

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