It's easy for consumers to buy food and beverages like, say, a bowl of hot rice and mineral water online or from neighborhood shops, but for astronauts such things are, rather were, luxury goods.

China's tech and internet companies are expected to embrace a new round of growth this year, which will inject greater impetus into job creation and the country's economic recovery, said industry experts and company executives.

Private, public sectors join forces to unleash potential of high-tech to create huge economic impact Artificial intelligence is helping China decode the universe for the world. By incorporating AI in the work done using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, Chinese astronomers are trying to discover celestial objects and phenomena like pulsars.

At Chindata Group's big-data industrial park in Lingqiu County of Datong City, hundreds of thousands of servers are running round-the-clock to support high-tech enterprises nationwide in such fields as AI, autonomous driving and quantum communication.

Tianjin Port said recently that one of its container terminals, which is powered by many advanced and green solutions, such as the internet of things, has been put into use.

The amount of digital yuan in circulation reached 13.61 billion yuan (about 2.01 billion U.S. dollars) by the end of 2022, data from the country's central bank showed.

China spent a record 3.09 trillion yuan ($443 billion) on research and development in 2022, a 10.4 percent year-on-year increase that came from the nation's accelerated efforts to enhance its innovation capability for more breakthroughs.

As Wandering Earth II, the sequel to China's most successful sci-fi epic, is well received in cinemas, the seemingly omnipotent industrial robots, a recurring presence in the film, offer a glimpse into the country's plan to be a global innovation hub for robotics.

China's Guizhou Province registered robust growth in the digital economy in 2022, with its growth rate ranking top in the country for seven consecutive years, local authorities said Friday.

Shanghai has unveiled a plan to promote its robot industry in the next three years, including having ten industrial leading robot brands, realizing 100 robot application scenes, and expanding the city's robot industrial scale to 100 billion yuan ($14.75 billion) by 2025, according to the official sources.

The connections of mobile internet of things in China was recorded at 1.84 billion in 2022.

Pathological diagnoses of diseases are embracing more digital tools, with artificial intelligence playing a vital role in helping make more accurate and objective diagnoses.