December 30, 2024

China’s Quantum Computing and Quantum Technology Initiatives

In little over a decade, China transformed from a minor player into a quantum technology powerhouse. The talent has matured, and a new generation of Chinese quantum scientists is coming into its own – many trained at top universities domestically and abroad, now supported by some of the best facilities in the world. Looking forward, we can expect China’s quantum momentum to continue. The Chinese government has signaled that quantum R&D will remain a high priority in its upcoming plans (2030 and beyond), ensuring steady funding and political support. The Hefei national quantum lab will likely become fully operational, hosting thousands of researchers and housing next-generation equipment to push the boundaries in both computing and sensing. Additional quantum satellites are ...

News - China - Quantum Computing, Quantum Tech, Post-Quantum, Quantum Security

Jiuzhang 4.0

Jiuzhang 4.0: China’s 1,024-Input Photonic Processor Claims 10⁵⁴ Speedup

Pan Jian-Wei's team published a rigorous Nature paper showing an order-of-magnitude leap in photonic quantum scale. The engineering is impressive. The "quantum supremacy" framing from state media is a different matter entirely ...
hanyuan-2

China’s Hanyuan-2 “Dual-Core” Quantum Computer: Clever Marketing, Missing Benchmarks

CAS Cold Atom Technology's Hanyuan-2 uses two rubidium isotope arrays and calls itself the world's first dual-core quantum computer. The framing is clever. The missing performance data tells a different story ...
Origin Quantum

China Releases Freely Downloadable Quantum Operating System

China's Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co. has made its quantum operating system, Origin Pilot, available for free public download - a move that multiple sources describe as the first time a quantum computer OS has been offered for local deployment anywhere in the world. The release, announced February 26 through ...
China TFQKD Network

Peking University Demonstrates 20-User Chip-Based QKD Network Spanning 3,700 km

12 Feb 2026 - A team led by Jianwei Wang and Lin Chang at Peking University has demonstrated an integrated-photonics twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) network connecting 20 independent client chips across ten wavelength-multiplexed channels, with each channel surpassing the repeaterless bound at 370 km in spooled fiber. The results, ...
DI-QKD USTC

China Just Pushed Device-Independent QKD (DI-QKD) to 100 Kilometres

A team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) published a paper in Science that quietly redrew the map of what device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) can do. Led by Bo-Wei Lu, Chao-Wei Yang, Run-Qi Wang, Xiao-Hui Bao, and the ever-present Jian-Wei Pan - the physicist sometimes ...
USTC Quantum Repeater

USTC Demonstrates First Scalable Quantum Repeater Building Block

5 Feb 2026 - A team led by Jian-Wei Pan and Qiang Zhang at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has demonstrated what the field has been waiting for: remote memory-memory entanglement that survives longer than the time it takes to create it. Published in Nature, the ...

Articles - China

Quantum Technology, Quantum Computing, Quantum Security

April 8, 2026

China’s Quantum Sensing Ecosystem: From Deep-Sea Diamonds to Drone-Mounted Submarine Hunters

In April 2025, a team from the University of Science and Technology of China published what might be the most consequential quantum sensing result of the decade — and almost nobody in the Western security community noticed. They had taken a nitrogen-vacancy center diamond magnetometer, packaged it into a ruggedized housing, and lowered it to the floor of the South ...
April 7, 2026

China’s Quantum Networking and QKD — World’s Most Ambitious Quantum Communication Program

On September 29, 2017, a video call connected two men separated by 7,600 kilometres. On one end, in Beijing, Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On the other, in Vienna, Anton Zeilinger, the physicist who would later win the 2022 Nobel Prize. The call consumed roughly 560 kilobits of encryption key per minute, refreshing AES-128 session keys ...
April 6, 2026

China’s Quantum Computing Hardware: The Core Capability the West Keeps Misjudging

The published record suggests China trails the US by about a year. The actual gap may be narrower — or it may already be closed. In December 2025, a team at the University of Science and Technology of China quietly posted a paper to Physical Review Letters demonstrating something only one other laboratory on Earth had achieved: quantum error correction ...
April 1, 2026

The Leapfrog Doctrine: How China Systematically Conquered Every Technology It Targeted

Almost fifteen years ago, I stood on the mezzanine floor of a manufacturing facility in Dongguan, staring into the dark. Literally. Below me, a sprawling production line hummed with the rhythmic, pneumatic hiss of assembly arms and the whine of servos. There were no overhead lights. There were no workers on the line. There was only the glow of status ...
March 7, 2026

China’s Quantum OS Play: Origin Pilot and the Battle for the Integration Layer

China's Origin Pilot isn't just another quantum SDK — it's a top-down systems integration layer that challenges the West's bottom-up approach to quantum open architecture ...
February 8, 2026

China Just Pushed Device-Independent QKD (DI-QKD) to 100 Kilometres

A team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) published a paper in Science that quietly redrew the map of what device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) can do. Led by Bo-Wei Lu, Chao-Wei Yang, Run-Qi Wang, Xiao-Hui Bao, and the ever-present Jian-Wei Pan - the physicist sometimes called China's quantum communications supremo - the experiment demonstrated DI-QKD ...
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Other Cybersecurity, AI, Emerging Tech

Huawei ERNW 5G Source Code Analysis
May 18, 2020

Does the positive review of Huawei UDG source code quality mean that Huawei 5G is secure and reliable?

No, no it doesn’t. Huawei's code might as well be extremely secure. Their code is certainly the most scrutinized. But the recent UDG source code review is not an evidence of security. ERNW, an independent IT security service provider in Germany, recently performed a technical review / audit of Huawei’s Unified Distributed Gateway (UDG) source code. Huawei made the summary ...
US vs China 5G
April 1, 2019

Geopolitics of 5G and 5G-Connected Massive & Critical IoT

Emerging Technology and Geopolitics of 5G There are several reasons emerging technology is a highly competitive industry, notwithstanding the race for intellectual property that can be licensed by burgeoning markets for revenue. A first-mover advantage is often a way to lock in relationships that can lead to long-term infrastructure commitments, integration support services, and service delivery platform development. As the ...
Hong Kong Fintech
June 3, 2017

How Hong Kong’s FinTech sector is developing

The global financial services sector is accelerating its transformation in response to changing values and shifting consumer preferences. Hong Kong is responding in its own unique way. Global events over the last decade have brought home the reality that we are living in a fast-changing world. The economic crisis and rapid technological development are changing consumer behaviour. Millennials – with ...
Chinese cybercrime
February 2, 2017

Cybercrime in China – a Growing Threat for the Chinese Economy

Western publications often picture the People’s Democratic Republic of China (hereafter China) as the world’s chief propagator of cyberattacks. But the picture is much more complex than such broad-brush claims suggest. Few Westerners realize that China and its neighbours in the Greater China region (Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong) have, over last few years, became the most technologically advanced region ...

Companies - China

Quantum Computing Hardware

Origin Quantum
March 7, 2026

Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co.

Origin Quantum Computing Technology Co. (本源量子计算科技) is China's first and most prominent quantum computing startup, building a vertically integrated superconducting quantum computing platform that spans from chip fabrication through operating ...