In its push for manufacturing and technological dominance, China continues to clear one milestone after another. In the early 2020s, it overtook Germany and Japan to become the world’s largest auto exporter. In January, the Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek stunned US Big Tech companies with its own low-cost large language model. Another marker came this week, when official customs data revealed that China’s trade surplus in goods topped a record $1tn in just the first 11 months of this year.
在追求制造業與技術主導地位的進程中,中國不斷跨越新的里程碑。2020年代初,中國超越德國和日本,成為全球最大的汽車出口國。1月,總部位于杭州的人工智能初創公司“深度求索”(DeepSeek)以其低成本的大型語言模型令美國科技巨頭震驚。本周又出現一個新標志:中國官方海關數據顯示,今年僅前11個月,中國貨物貿易順差就創紀錄地突破1萬億美元。