China’s 2026–2030 urban renewal plan links housing, infrastructure, resilience and culture. Delivery should prioritise residents, maintenance and gradual repair over cosmetic projects.
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China’s public services should follow the resident, not the registration book
Providing basic services where people actually live could make urbanisation more secure. Delivery will depend on school capacity, portable social insurance, housing access and municipal finance.
China’s national parks need boundaries that work for wildlife and people
A wild animal does not recognise the line between a national park, a scenic area and a local forest reserve. Water, fire and migration routes cross adminis
China’s disease-prevention plan will be tested between outbreaks
Disease prevention becomes visible when an outbreak is already frightening. Cameras show laboratories, emergency meetings and protective equipment. The mor
China is giving EV batteries a digital identity. The hard part begins when cars retire
An electric vehicle can leave a showroom as a clean-technology success and reach the end of its first life as a difficult industrial object: heavy, high-vo
China brain-computer interfaces are moving from spectacle to rehabilitation
Brain-computer interfaces are often introduced through spectacular images: a cursor moves by thought, a robotic arm responds or a patient performs a motion
China’s space data-centre plan moves the AI energy debate into orbit
Artificial intelligence has turned data-centre electricity, land and water use into a strategic constraint. China’s reported plan to explore space-based da
China’s asteroid warning network will be judged by the data it shares
China’s plan for a space-ground asteroid early-warning network is easy to frame as another chapter in the space race. That frame is incomplete. Near-Earth
Amap’s overseas ride-hailing push shows Chinese platforms are following travellers abroad
The most stressful moment of an international trip is often not the flight. It is the first ten minutes after arrival: unfamiliar pickup lanes, a language
China’s reusable-rocket recovery is a space-economy signal
A rocket stage falling back toward Earth can look like a spectacular engineering image, but the real story is economic. If a launch system can recover and