Expedition and freight forwarding solutions

In recent years, Asia — and China in particular — has been steadily transforming into one of the world’s key centers of technological development. This shift is driven by long-term policy planning, large-scale investment and the ability of local companies to rapidly deploy and scale new technologies.

China has built strong positions across multiple high-tech sectors. Hongfa Technology is now one of the global leaders in relay manufacturing, supplying electromechanical components for electronics, automotive applications and smart home systems to more than 120 countries while maintaining a dominant position in the domestic market.

Amid restrictions on Western semiconductor supplies, China is accelerating efforts toward technological self-sufficiency, particularly in artificial intelligence hardware. Cambricon Technologies plans to produce up to 500,000 AI chips in 2026, including its flagship Siyuan 590 and 690 processors manufactured on SMIC’s 7-nm process.

In autonomous mobility, Baidu has become one of the global frontrunners. Its Apollo Go robotaxi service now completes more than 250,000 rides per week — a level comparable to that of U.S.-based Waymo.

China also leads the United States and Japan in industrial robot density. At electric vehicle manufacturing plants, robots developed by Leju Robotics are already deployed for material handling and sorting operations.

Semiconductor manufacturing remains a strategic priority. China’s largest foundry, SMIC, has demonstrated the capability to produce 7-nm chips, while maintaining large-scale output at 14-nm and 28-nm nodes, forming the backbone of the country’s domestic chip supply.

Together, these developments highlight China’s transition from technology adoption to full-scale innovation and industrial leadership.

China has successfully tested a new control system that allows multiple freight trains to travel in a coordinated convoy without physical coupling. According to developers, the technology could increase the country’s rail freight capacity by more than 50% without the need to build new tracks.

The test was conducted on the Baoshen Railway in Inner Mongolia. Seven freight trains with a combined load of 35,000 tons moved along the line at the minimum safe distance from one another.

Control was carried out using wireless signals, enabling synchronized acceleration and braking across all trains with no risk of collision.

The platoon-control system was developed with the participation of state-owned enterprises and research organizations and is seen as a promising direction for advancing high-tech solutions in rail freight transport.

South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party has introduced a bill to establish a special fund that will finance a massive $350 billion investment package in the United States, including $150 billion dedicated to modernizing the U.S. shipbuilding industry.

The bill, developed jointly with the government, fulfills Washington’s primary condition for reducing tariffs on Korean automobiles and auto parts starting November 1.

Under the proposal, the fund would be financed through revenue from South Korea’s overseas assets and the issuance of government bonds on offshore markets. Seoul and Washington finalized the investment mechanism in November after three months of negotiations aimed at preventing pressure on the Korean won.

South Korea has already notified U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Latnick of the bill’s submission and formally requested the start of the tariff-reduction process. The investment package allocates $250 billion to U.S. strategic industries and $150 billion to shipbuilding modernization — a move that could significantly reshape technological and defense cooperation between the two countries.

The bill is backed by South Korea’s Democratic Party, one of the two major political forces in the country.

The fund will be state-owned and managed by the Korean government through the Ministry of Industry and national financial institutions.