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China's manned space program is now pushing ahead with the construction of the space station, striving to complete the on-orbit construction plan around 2022 and prepare for the long-term stable operation of the station, according to CCTV.

Last December, OPPO first showed off a prototype phone with an under-screen camera at its 2019 Future Technology Conference. A prototype was recently circulated on Chinese social media, and it is said to be an OPPO smartphone with under-screen camera technology.

Chinese self-driving startup Pony.ai announced on November 6 that it has raised a total of $267 million in Series C funding. With this round of funding, Pony.ai has raised more than $1 billion in total funding and is valued at more than $5.3 billion, making it the most highly valued company in China's automated driving space.

The Ceres-1 launch vehicle, developed by China's private space company Galactic Energy, was successfully launched at 15:12 on November 7 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, sending a data acquisition satellite into a predetermined orbit.

ASML is open to exporting IC mask aligner to China and will fully support it within the legal and regulatory framework, Shen Bo, global vice president and president of the mask aligner manufacturing giant's China region, said in an interview with thepaper.cn on November 5.

The mask aligner manufacturing giant ASML is present at the ongoing 3rd China Import Expo, and is exhibiting the DUV mask aligner at its own booth, Chinese media reported.

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi unveiled its new technology for cameras at its developer conference today: a telescopic large-aperture lens.

Recent reviews by several digital bloggers have claimed that the Huawei Mate40 Pro's flash memory read and write speeds are superfast, and they speculate that this could be because Huawei has optimized the UFS 3.1 technology to the max. However, the newly released teardown report shows that this is not the case.

The Jianghan Road in central China's Wuhan has new streetlights installed that can provide wireless charging to mobile phones, according to the People's Daily. 

To support Alibaba's record-breaking transaction peaks, five super data centers, including Zhang Bei, Ulanqab, Heyuan, Nantong and Hangzhou, will work together to provide computing power during the Singles Day shopping festival on November 11, said Zhou Ming, vice president of Alibaba Group and head of Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure unit.