SMEs

Chinese villagers: The unsung heroes behind China's rapid AI development

Yin Ruizhi points out that China's AI industry was able to scale up so quickly thanks to an army of rural folk ready to do the laborious yet essential task of data annotation.

Yin Ruizhi

17 Nov 2020

Falling revenue, absent staff... Tough road ahead for China's SMEs

Micro, small, and medium enterprises assets account for 77% of the total assets of Chinese enterprises, while their annual revenue contributes 68% of the total amount of annual revenue of Chinese enterprises. Chen Jing, Lianhe Zaobao's Shanghai correspondent reports that as the coronavirus outbreak in China eases off, SMEs in China are doing their level best to get their businesses up and running again. But the way forward looks to be all uphill.

Chen Jing

23 Mar 2020