Shenzhen, long the heart of China’s tech industry, may have a new rival as Hangzhou’s companies take centre stage. Will they compete or collaborate?

Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou-based startup behind the YangBOT performance at CCTV's New Year's Gala, is making waves in the robotics industry. Founder Xingxing Wang was recently recognized by Chinese President Xi Jinping at a private entrepreneurs' forum in Beijing,

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N. body which brings together climate scientists from nearly 200 countries to assess the planet's health, will meet in Hangzhou, China, next week to plan its next global report.

Alibaba stock (BABA) has rallied hard recently. It got a fresh boost ahead of the bell Thursday from a forecast-smashing set of results. Quarterly profit jumped to about $6.7 billion, the Hangzhou, China-based e-commerce company said.

DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. The Hangzhou-based firm is accelerating the launch of the successor to January's R1 model.

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Ferrari’s chief executive Benedetto Vigna on Feb. 14 visited the headquarters of electric vehicle maker Leapmotor in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou

Hangzhou, China-based tech firm DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model on GitHub and its website. It reportedly did so for less than $6 million using Nvidia’s less-advanced H800 chips, owing to the export restrictions the US put in place on high-performance computing chips to China.

China's joyful embrace of DeepSeek has gone one step deeper - extending to TVs, fridges and robot vacuum cleaners with a slew of home appliance brands announcing that their products will feature the startup's artificial intelligence models.

For years, Shenzhen has been synonymous with Chinese innovation. The southern megacity - and the firms it has spawned over the decades - have become the indisputable champions of the country's drive for technological self-reliance,

An amphibious spherical robot patrols the streets with police officers in Lucheng district, Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province. Photo: Courtesy of Lucheng District Public Sec