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Air Mobility

Coverage of China’s emerging air mobility sector, including eVTOL aircraft, low-altitude aviation, urban air transport, and regulatory developments. This section explores commercialization timelines, infrastructure readiness, and investment risks in next-generation mobility.

ChinaBiz Briefing | Apollo Go Hits London, CATL Margin Squeeze, Xiaomi's Memory Edge

China's technology and industrial sectors delivered a cluster of strategically significant signals on Tuesday, spanning autonomous driving, battery economics, consumer robotics, and mobile memory. Taken together, the day's developments underscore a single through-line: Chinese companies are no longer competing on home turf alone — they are

AutoFlight’s Kazakhstan Bet: Turning a New Aviation Framework Into an eVTOL Launchpad

0:00 /1:03 1× China's AutoFlight executed its first public electric air taxi demonstration in Kazakhstan's capital on July 24, transforming a regulatory milestone into a live commercial proof-of-concept before an audience of diplomats, aviation officials and investors from multiple nations. The flight,

ChinaBiz Briefing | Alibaba's 20x CXMT Gain, Kimi K3 Goes Open-Source, China AC Exports Surge

China's technology and industrial sectors delivered a dense slate of signals on July 28, with Alibaba crystallizing a landmark return on its semiconductor bet, Moonshot AI releasing its most powerful open-weight model yet, and a record European heat wave rewriting the growth calculus for China's

China's First Ton-Class Long-Endurance Civil Drone TP200 Completes Maiden Flight

0:00 /0:35 1× China's first ton-class multi-purpose long-endurance civil drone, the TP200, completed its maiden flight on July 26, 2026, marking a milestone in the country's domestically developed unmanned aviation sector. The aircraft, developed by Yitong UAV, was designed and built

ChinaBiz Briefing | China AI Dominance, BYD Reset, ByteDance Drives Autonomy, Huawei Rebound

China's technology and industrial complex is moving on multiple fronts simultaneously this week — and the direction of travel is unmistakable. Chinese AI models have locked in a structural lead on global developer platforms. BYD is compressing its product cycle to near-software cadence. ByteDance is quietly probing autonomous

Volant Aerotech Targets China's First eVTOL IPO Backed by RMB 47.5B Order Book

SHANGHAI VOLANT AEROTECH has converted into a joint-stock company and amassed a RMB 47.5 billion (US$6.6 billion) order book, positioning itself as the frontrunner to become China's first publicly listed electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft manufacturer. The corporate restructuring, registered on July

ChinaBiz Briefing | Zhipu AI's Rise, Momenta's $1B IPO, and AutoFlight's Global Leap

China's technology sector delivered a concentrated burst of milestones on June 22, spanning AI model competition, capital markets, electric mobility, and low-altitude aviation. The common thread: Chinese companies are no longer competing at the margins of global industries — they are setting terms. From an open-source AI

AutoFlight's V2000CG Breaks Global Barrier With First Overseas eVTOL Airworthiness Certificate

Indonesia's DGCA validation clears the 2-ton cargo drone for commercial operations across the archipelago's 17,000 islands — a regulatory first that signals China's eVTOL industry has crossed from domestic ambition to international commercial reality. AutoFlight, the Shanghai-based electric vertical take-off and

ChinaBiz Briefing | CATL’s AI Bet, Xiaomi & Lenovo Margin Squeeze

Today’s developments highlight a stark divergence in China’s tech sector: the massive upside of AI transformation is colliding with severe hardware realities. While companies like CATL are aggressively deploying capital to dominate next-generation AI infrastructure, hardware giants including Xiaomi and Lenovo are battling brutal margin compression driven

Volant Raises $138 Million as China’s eVTOL Race Shifts Toward Commercial Scale

Chinese electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) developer Volant Aerotech has secured nearly RMB 1 billion (US$138.8 million) in a Series C+ funding round, a capital injection that signals a critical industry pivot from venture-backed prototyping to state-and-insurance-funded commercial manufacturing. The transaction, led by

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