How China is edging toward a robotic surgery hub2026-07-02
When Professor Prokar Dasgupta operated in London on a 62-year-old prostate-cancer patient from Gibraltar earlier this year, the distance drew the headlines: about 1,500 miles between a surgeon at a console in Britain and a robotic system moving inside an operating room in Gibraltar, at the southern edge of the Iberian Peninsula. The robot was Chinese-made — Toumai, developed by Shanghai MicroPort MedBot.
ICBC President Liu Jun at Summer Davos: Pakistan Case Demonstrates New Financing Approach for Belt and Road2026-06-24
At the 2026 Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum (Summer Davos), in the panel discussion “How Will the Belt and Road Develop in the Future?”, Liu Jun, President of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), outlined a set of pragmatic financing mechanisms aimed at restructuring cross-border infrastructure finance under the Belt and Road Initiative, with a particular emphasis on expanding the use of RMB-denominated funding channels and China-linked financial infrastructure.
China’s AI sorting-machine maker eyes deeper ties with Pakistan2026-06-23
Chinese optical sorting equipment maker ANYSORT is supplying rice-sorting machines to Pakistan through local distributors, as demand grows for more automated processing in the country’s rice industry, a company representative told China Economic Net (CEN) on Tuesday.