China

具身智能加速融入千行百业

Guangming Daily | Local Language | News | Dec. 5, 2025 | UndeterminedTech Development/Adoption

Embodied intelligence is accelerating its integration across hundreds of industries, with applications ranging from industrial production to public services. UBTECH has begun mass-producing its humanoid robot Walker S2, aiming to deliver 500 units in 2025 and deploy them in frontline industrial scenarios. Embodied intelligence products now include humanoid, wheeled, and quadruped robots, drones, unmanned surface vessels, and autonomous vehicles, expanding use cases in manufacturing, home services, medical rehabilitation, and the low-altitude economy.

The intelligence level of embodied robots has improved significantly, with embedded large-model “brains” enhancing perception, reasoning, and real-world interaction capabilities. Key component costs have dropped due to increased production capacity and standardization, driving faster technological iteration and market expansion in 2025. Pro Universe Robotics recently upgraded its wheeled embodied robot, DaBai 2.0, emphasizing the need to conquer precision, quality, and efficiency challenges to unlock the full potential of embodied intelligence.

Embodied intelligence addresses pain points like fixed bases, limited manipulation, and low autonomous reasoning in traditional robots, improving production and service efficiency. In industrial settings, it helps replace humans in hazardous environments and achieves micro-level manufacturing precision. Public service roles such as supermarket restocking are also seeing robotic automation. While product forms and business models remain immature, the technology holds vast potential for improving efficiency, safety, and convenience.

Three core technical bottlenecks remain: foundational models that integrate perception, reasoning, and action; performance of key physical components like reasoning chips and sensors; and high-quality real-world datasets for training. The next three to five years are critical for large-scale embodied intelligence development, with expected advancements in intelligent capabilities, diversified product forms, and expanded multi-scenario applications that refine business models. The evolution will include scenario penetration from repetitive tasks to life companionship, technical architecture moving toward integrated end-to-end models, and industrial forms advancing from single robots to coordinated robot swarms.

Government support will focus on deploying industrial and humanoid robots in factories, especially for welding, assembly, painting, and material handling, as well as in mining, emergency response, and other demanding environments. These measures aim to enhance intelligent operations in hazardous working conditions and facilitate broader adoption of embodied intelligence in key industrial sectors.

揭开新型腐败“面纱”，让隐性腐败难“隐”

Guangming Daily | Local Language | News | Dec. 5, 2025 | Corporate Corruption or Fraud

The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate have jointly released typical cases highlighting new, concealed forms of corruption in the financial sector and their legal consequences. These cases expose methods such as receiving bribes disguised as "labor remuneration" or profit distribution from cooperative operations, making hidden corruption more difficult to conceal and enabling precise legal punishment.

The Huang bribery case exemplifies corruption linked to the government-business "revolving door." Huang, a former state-owned commercial bank executive, received over 42.68 million yuan through "settling-in fees," salary, and bonuses from a company controlled by Huang Mousen after facilitating that company’s access to the bank’s client list. Huang was sentenced to 14 years in prison, fined 4 million yuan, and had illegal earnings confiscated, setting clear legal boundaries against disguised bribery.

Bribery via "cooperative operation" without actual capital investment is also targeted, as seen in the case of Li and Xu, state-owned trust practitioners who accepted illicit property under this pretense. Their sentencing illustrates the judiciary’s zero-tolerance stance on corruption in the trust industry and the broader financial sector.

Other severe cases like that of Liu and Wu demonstrate strict punishments for large-scale bribery, embezzlement, and abuse of influence resulting in significant unrecoverable loans and misappropriation of public funds. Liu received more than 150 million yuan in bribes, while Wu accepted over 275 million yuan and embezzled more than 508 million yuan. Both received sentences of death with reprieve and lifelong imprisonment, underscoring the judiciary’s firm commitment to combating financial sector corruption.

Global Times | English | News | Dec. 5, 2025 | Geopolitical Conflict and Disputes

Japan is advancing the construction of a Self-Defense Forces base on Mageshima Island, located off the coast of Tanegashima Island. The project has reached a peak workforce of over 6,000 construction workers, with completion targeted for March 2030. The base is planned to serve as a hub for operations and training in the southwestern islands and act as a response base for potential regional attacks. Facilities will include two runways, an unpaved landing training area, an F-35B simulated shipborne takeoff and landing training area, and onshore training grounds. The base will also facilitate the relocation of US military carrier-based aircraft's Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP).

Chinese military expert Song Zhongping has commented that the base lays the foundation for Japan's future military expansion and buildup, noting its strategic location near the Ryukyu islands. Although the base is described as a US training facility, it could serve Japan's own military ambitions by dispersing forces and offering tactical advantages. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning emphasized that Japan has been easing military restrictions, increasing its defense budget for 13 consecutive years, revising security laws to enable collective self-defense, and relaxing arms export controls. Mao also highlighted Japan's efforts to strengthen extended deterrence cooperation and potentially revise its three non-nuclear principles, raising concerns about Japan possibly seeking nuclear sharing arrangements. Mao stated that attempts by Japan to return to militarism and disrupt the postwar international order would not be tolerated by China or the international community.