# Chengdu
Latest news and articles about Chengdu
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China’s Data Ambitions: Breaking the Silos of State-Owned Giants
China Mobile has launched a 'trusted data space' hub in Chengdu, marking a significant step in enabling secure data circulation among central state-owned enterprises. The facility leverages massive computing power to support AI model training and aligns with the national 'East Data, West Computing' strategy.
Closing the Digital Gap: Chengdu’s Jinniu District Tests ‘E-commerce + Physical’ Integration to Cure Retail Traffic Anxiety
Chengdu’s Jinniu District has launched an integrated e-commerce and physical retail campaign designed to help traditional businesses overcome digital marketing hurdles. By utilizing an online-to-offline loop, the initiative aims to solve ‘traffic anxiety’ for local car dealers, restaurants, and retailers through mid-May.
The Great Inland Pivot: Chengdu Challenges Beijing for Demographic Dominance
As Beijing intentionally restricts its population growth through 'de-population' policies, Chengdu is poised to become China's third-largest city by 2030. This shift reflects a broader national trend where strong provincial capitals act as demographic reservoirs, concentrating resources and labor to offset regional population declines.
Westward Expansion: Chengdu Challenges Beijing for Demographic Dominance
Chengdu's permanent population has reached 21.53 million, rapidly approaching Beijing as the capital deliberately reduces its density. Despite China's national population decline, Chengdu remains one of the few megacities maintaining steady growth, driven by its rise as a western economic hub.
The New Silk Road of Silicon: Why Chinese Big Tech is Pivoting West to Chengdu
Chinese tech giants including Xiaomi, Tencent, and ByteDance are deepening their presence in Chengdu, shifting the country's digital creative center westward. The city is leveraging high-tech infrastructure and a high concentration of Gen Z talent to transform from a regional hub into a primary national engine for digital culture and AI innovation.
AIGC Takes Center Stage: Kevin Kelly to Keynote China’s Premier Audio-Visual Convention in Chengdu
The 13th China Internet Audio-Visual Convention in Chengdu will feature futurologist Kevin Kelly to discuss AI's transformative impact on the media industry. The event highlights China's strategic pivot toward AI-generated content (AIGC) as a cornerstone of its future digital economy.
Beyond the Battery: CATL’s Strategic Bet on Green Hydrogen Signals a New Energy Frontier
Battery giant CATL has become the lead external shareholder in Guna Technology, a hydrogen electrode specialist based in Chengdu. The investment marks a significant pivot for CATL into green hydrogen hardware as it seeks to dominate the full spectrum of zero-carbon energy solutions.
China’s Small-Flat Fever: Retail Buyers Are Snapping Up ‘Old, Small, Shabby’ Apartments—But the Risks Loom Large
A wave of retail buyers in Chinese cities is snapping up ageing, small apartments using leverage and rental yield as the investment thesis. While such purchases can produce positive cash flow today, they hinge on sustained rents, selective local policies, and sometimes speculative demolition hopes, exposing buyers and markets to sharp downside.
Tim Cook’s China Stop: Apple Turns Its 50th Birthday into a Local Engagement Drive in Chengdu
Tim Cook attended Apple’s 50th anniversary celebration at the Taikoo Li Apple store in Chengdu, joining local artist Li Yuchun and customers. The visit underscores Apple’s strategic focus on Greater China, where sales have outpaced expectations, and balances consumer outreach with impending policy engagement in Beijing.
China Recasts Its Housing Fund as a Tool to Unlock Trillions for Renovation, Rent and Urban Renewal
China is widening uses for its housing provident fund to mobilise roughly ¥10.9 trillion in deposits by allowing withdrawals for rent, renovations, property fees and urban‑renewal projects. Local pilots aim to spur consumption, speed up old‑neighbourhood upgrades and support housing affordability, while national signals suggest the reform will be phased in more broadly. The reforms could nudge domestic demand and help stabilise the property market, but they carry administrative, fiscal and targeting risks that policymakers must manage carefully.
China’s Solo-Founders Moment: Cities Race to Build AI 'One-Person Company' Ecosystems
Chinese cities are rapidly building ecosystems for 'One Person Companies' (OPCs), solo founders who use AI to run end-to-end startups. From Shenzhen’s hardware-focused clusters to Chengdu’s digital-cultural OPC pilot, local governments are deploying compute vouchers, equity funds and community space to turn solo AI entrepreneurship into an economic strategy.
Chengdu Turns Spring Festival Footfall into a Launchpad for AI and Robotics
During the Lunar New Year, Chengdu’s Chunxi Road hosted an AI‑focused consumer launch festival that paired hands‑on demonstrations and a robot pop‑up with a nearby large‑scale robot marketplace. Jinjiang District frames the effort as part of a strategic “first‑release economy” to speed lab‑to‑market conversion and build a linked innovation‑and‑retail ecosystem.